Gas Fires and Fireplaces

A good gas fire provides both a useful heat source and a stunning focal point for any room. Gas fires and fire surrounds now come in a wide range of styles and colours to enhance your chosen décor. Ensure a suitable qualified professional tradesman is used in the selection and installation of your gas fire.

Here at heatandplumb.com we sell Valor Gas Fires, Baxi Gas Fires and Smeg Gas Fires to name just a few.

Advances to gas fire in the last 12 years have been made technically and aesthetically to provide you with a very large choice. Fires can be classified as:

• Decorative
• Inset Living Flame Effect (LFE)
• Outset Living Flame Effect (LFE)
• Radiant

Decorative Gas Fires

The Decorative gas fire features the body of the fire inset into the fireplace opening and gives the appearance of a real coal fire, but having all the benefits of a gas

Inset Living Flame Effect Gas Fires (LFE)

The inset LFE is similar to the Decorative fire but with much higher heat outputs and greater efficiencies.

Outset Living Flame Effect Gas Fires LFE

The outset LFE stands proud of the fireplace giving the realistic flame picture of a real fire behind a panoramic glass window.

Radiant Gas Fires

The radiant gas fire is a more conventional gas fire offering great efficiency, heat output and control resulting in superb value for money.

It is also possible to install gas fires in homes without a chimney using flue boxes and flues or balanced and fanned flue models.

Fireplaces are supplied as mantels or surrounds.

A mantel is made up of 3 distinct parts, the mantel itself (the ‘goalposts’), the back panel and the hearth all of which must be ordered separately A surround is supplies complete with all 3 components pre-specified Our range of fireplaces feature wood finishes, stone finishes, marblesque finishes and marble finishes. Back panels may be complement the mantel or be contrasting cast styles.