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Title: Can you install a fan flue fire without the fan?
Post by Marcpt23 on Nov 2^nd, 2010, 10:14pm

Can you install a 'fan flue' gas fire in a normal chimney- i.e just disregard the fan flue?
The fire I have has an external fan to be fitted on an external wall but I have a normal chimney so can I just fit the fire into the hearth and chimney without the fan flue attached?

Title: Re: Can you install a fan flue fire without the fan?
Post by thescruff on Nov 3^rd, 2010, 12:46pm

Not unless you got a death wish ::)

Title: Re: Can you install a fan flue fire without the fan?
Post by CWatters on Nov 3^rd, 2010, 2:06pm

What he said. Could well be deadly...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1056758.ece

(May need to cut and paste that link)

Anyway the fire would/should detect the missing fan as a fault and refuse to work for safety reasons.