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Gas central heating ❤️.
we intend to install gas ovens in those boarded up victorian fireplaces - as a backup and by aesthetical reasons - the better ones look really nice, and it is a shame that such lovely victorian fireplaces are boarded up. Our main heating is a heat pump - it still requires power though, but for 1kW put in one gets about 5kW in form of hot water out, which is used for underfloor heating, bathrooms and tea water taps (I love these, 90 degree C tea water right from the tap).

We want something like this in most rooms - a little bit kitschy, but so is a lot of victorian interior, we love it
victorian-tiled-front.jpg
 
we intend to install gas ovens in those boarded up victorian fireplaces - as a backup and by aesthetical reasons - the better ones look really nice, and it is a shame that such lovely victorian fireplaces are boarded up. Our main heating is a heat pump - it still requires power though, but for 1kW put in one gets about 5kW in form of hot water out, which is used for underfloor heating, bathrooms and tea water taps (I love these, 90 degree C tea water right from the tap).

We want something like this in most rooms - a little bit kitschy, but so is a lot of victorian interior, we love it
victorian-tiled-front.jpg
We've got a victorian house, and have something similar but in slate. Excuse the poor photo, it's late, and it's taken with my mobile.

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The one in the dining room is more intricate, but isn't a working fire, but is totally original ironwork, marbling, tiles etc
 
we intend to install gas ovens in those boarded up victorian fireplaces - as a backup and by aesthetical reasons - the better ones look really nice, and it is a shame that such lovely victorian fireplaces are boarded up. Our main heating is a heat pump - it still requires power though, but for 1kW put in one gets about 5kW in form of hot water out, which is used for underfloor heating, bathrooms and tea water taps (I love these, 90 degree C tea water right from the tap).

We want something like this in most rooms - a little bit kitschy, but so is a lot of victorian interior, we love it
victorian-tiled-front.jpg
As you say Victorian can't really avoid being a little kitsch without going too far the other way and ending up excessively austere, which isn't what most people want to live in day-to-day. Get it right and you have cosy, like your pic above. It's not my own taste but that's taste for you, a very personal thing. It's certainly tasteful though.
 
we intend to install gas ovens in those boarded up victorian fireplaces - as a backup and by aesthetical reasons - the better ones look really nice, and it is a shame that such lovely victorian fireplaces are boarded up. Our main heating is a heat pump - it still requires power though, but for 1kW put in one gets about 5kW in form of hot water out, which is used for underfloor heating, bathrooms and tea water taps (I love these, 90 degree C tea water right from the tap).

We want something like this in most rooms - a little bit kitschy, but so is a lot of victorian interior, we love it
victorian-tiled-front.jpg
Just make sure you get your ventilation sorted out as part of fitting.
I've no idea what the requirements are where you live but as a general rule, allow enough fresh air in to equate that burnt.
Part J in UK building regs or your equivalent. Messing this up is very dangerous.
 
We've got a victorian house, and have something similar but in slate. Excuse the poor photo, it's late, and it's taken with my mobile.

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The one in the dining room is more intricate, but isn't a working fire, but is totally original ironwork, marbling, tiles etc
really nice and a quite similar style - our house is victorian style as well, even it was built during edwardian times - 1906.
 
Just make sure you get your ventilation sorted out as part of fitting.
I've no idea what the requirements are where you live but as a general rule, allow enough fresh air in to equate that burnt.
Part J in UK building regs or your equivalent. Messing this up is very dangerous.
Sound advice. Think we had to have extra vent fitted, one in the floor (we have a cellar), and one on the outside wall. Makes you wonder how the victorians managed to breathe when they had both fires working
 
My father when he was around used to take me to his friends who was "restoring" a victorian era house. He added an extension to it and the entire kitchen was wood panelling. It looked like the inside of a B&Q shed.

This was the same bloke who dropped a piano while trying to winch it up from the outside destroying the entire thing and boarded up fireplaces.
 
Just make sure you get your ventilation sorted out as part of fitting.
I've no idea what the requirements are where you live but as a general rule, allow enough fresh air in to equate that burnt.
Part J in UK building regs or your equivalent. Messing this up is very dangerous.
well, we don't do it ourselves, and I guess that the company providing these kind of heating does know the rules and how to do it properly. There are quite a few victorian homes in this district of Hobart, I will most likely ring at some of them and ask them about what kind of heating they are using and what they did with their fireplaces - Tasmanians are very friendly and open for a chat, I guess that will be a lovely time chatting with a nice cup of tea - maybe even a good way getting to know the further away neighbors as well.
 
Sound advice. Think we had to have extra vent fitted, one in the floor (we have a cellar), and one on the outside wall. Makes you wonder how the victorians managed to breathe when they had both fires working
their chimneys were quite poorly done as well, hence the many fires associated with fireplaces in the victorian era.
 
My father when he was around used to take me to his friends who was "restoring" a victorian era house. He added an extension to it and the entire kitchen was wood panelling. It looked like the inside of a B&Q shed.

This was the same bloke who dropped a piano while trying to winch it up from the outside destroying the entire thing and boarded up fireplaces.
My parents kitchen is all wood panelling, I always thought they should have a plunge pool next to it
 
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