We've recently moved and we're facing a bit of a heating challenge.
In short, house from 1910, suspended floor (you can see the outside through the floor in the front room lol...) wall radiator in a dumb place we want to move under a bay window.
Had a plumber round who said we wouldn't get enough heat from the size of radiator we want so a thought was to convert a shabby period style fireplace into a log burner.
Challenge is the chimney has been removed above the living room so it's purely aesthetic.
My thought was to have a flue tunneled through the exterior wall and up the side of the house.
I know it's possible but I want to figure out if it's prohibitively expensive?
Obviously we're going to have a crack at sealing the floor and insulating it but either way we've got 2 external walls and a big bay window to deal with BTU wise so the small-ish radiator we wanted under the bay is going to struggle either way.
In short, house from 1910, suspended floor (you can see the outside through the floor in the front room lol...) wall radiator in a dumb place we want to move under a bay window.
Had a plumber round who said we wouldn't get enough heat from the size of radiator we want so a thought was to convert a shabby period style fireplace into a log burner.
Challenge is the chimney has been removed above the living room so it's purely aesthetic.
My thought was to have a flue tunneled through the exterior wall and up the side of the house.
I know it's possible but I want to figure out if it's prohibitively expensive?
Obviously we're going to have a crack at sealing the floor and insulating it but either way we've got 2 external walls and a big bay window to deal with BTU wise so the small-ish radiator we wanted under the bay is going to struggle either way.
