In-fireplace radiator

Would this be any good? Says it's 350 x 62 (top RH corner, size HxW, choose an option; there is only the one),I presume cm but it doesn't say.

Buy yourself a chainsaw and learn to love the log burner.

With the price of gas and electricity these days gleaning your own firewood can be very satisfying. ;-)

Isn?t there anywhere else a radiator could go in the room? That way you could heat it with your CH and still have the log burner if you change your mind. Can?t help thinking that a CH radiator in a fireplace is gonna look rather weird.

Tim

Interesting, thanks. I think 62mm is the width of a single section, and they build up to your required width by adding sections with a minimum of four.

A bit low for me though - the cavity is approx 800mm high, 600mm wide and 250mm deep.

Have you checked out the fan units that are designed to fit under kitchen units? You could potentially put in a small stack of them depending on what output you need.

Wouldn't you lose a lot of effectiveness?

I know they are called radiators but I think that they do a lot of the heating by convection and siting a radiator inside the fireplace would possibly limit this.

Given the number of fireplaces without fires, I expect that if this was a good idea, as you suggest, there would already be plenty of options.

Cheers

Dave R

Won't all the heat go up the chimney?

The top of the fireplace would get very hot, so whatever you block it up with needs to be well bonded or the stuff will come off. Brian