Best way to heat a single room?

[mace]

Tramps

You should learn from them mate.

Newspapers down your shirt, scruffy mongrel & a bottle of meths will keep you warm.

[d000hg]

Do new houses these days not have a fireplace then?

I actually don't recall seeing an open fireplace in any new-build house I've ever looked at. We looked at a few quite nice ones, where the rooms were not cupboards with windows and the staircase only wide enough for thin people, and it seems they are just not added. I suppose it lowers the heating efficiency having that big hole

Shame, real fires are great, though you have to get a pretty old house to find fireplaces in every room...

[OwlHoot]

I actually don't recall seeing an open fireplace in any new-build house I've ever looked at. We looked at a few quite nice ones, where the rooms were not cupboards with windows and the staircase only wide enough for thin people, and it seems they are just not added. I suppose it lowers the heating efficiency having that big hole

Shame, real fires are great, though you have to get a pretty old house to find fireplaces in every room...

Loads of people will be feeling run down and suffering mysterious ailments living in those hermetically sealed new-build shoe boxes, with all the damp encouraging mould, and nasty chemicals used in their construction and the carpets and furniture constantly leaking into the air.

You need a few decent fire places to get a proper flow of fresh air, even if they are a bit less efficient. You'd be amazed at the number of crazy people who never open any windows in their house.

[bogeyman]

Do new houses these days not have a fireplace then?

No! Just looking at a few new houses and none of them have a proper fire place! Just a big gap where you can place a huge 48-inch plasma TV.

Sad.

[TinTrump]

No! Just looking at a few new houses and none of them have a proper fire place! Just a big gap where you can place a huge 48-inch plasma TV.

Sad.

Agreed. I think its nicer to have the sofas arranged around the fireplace as the centre of the room, rather than the TV which I find a bit soulless. My house has one of those gas fires that imitates a coal one. And fireplaces in nearly every room. Built 1907.

I like the stove idea. A good way to eliminate all the discarded, broken furniture the local proles leave in the street too.

[d000hg]

What is prole?

[TheFaQQer]

What is prole?

Linky.

[DimPrawn]

No! Just looking at a few new houses and none of them have a proper fire place! Just a big gap where you can place a huge 48-inch plasma TV.

Sad.

That is truly sad. Imagine having a TV that small.

[bogeyman]

That is truly sad. Imagine having a TV that small.

What is this obsession with huge, booming televisions?

I know the lower classes seem to set great store by them - but they just give me a headache.

[Alf W]

Have you tried bleeding the radiator?