ShooTa
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- Location
- Denbighshire - In the vale of Clwyd!
but they are fantastic at doing what they were meant to do - heat the chimney mass - ie the giant night storage radiator.. too many of the studies fail to factor this into open fireplace fires.With solar as cheap as chips I would retain the electric for the 9 months of the year when solar is useful as these old houses require a lot of heat. The more that you can get for free the better. As for open fires do you actually mean open fire or fireplace with a stove in it. Chimneys are a wonderful way of removing all your expensive heated air and throwing it into the atmosphere whilst replacing it with cold draughts. Does not have to be like this but a lot of owners of old properties do not recognise the problem and then put in oversized heating systems to compensate for the problem rather than remove the problem.