Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Fireplace - yay or nay 16Apr 26, 2021 10:22 pm Wood fires are bad in urban areas as the smoke is terrible for human health and your neighbours get to enjoy this. Heat can easily be achieved with efficient split systems these days. If you're rural then all good if that's your thing. Re: Fireplace - yay or nay 17Apr 26, 2021 10:36 pm stonesthrow Wood fires are bad in urban areas as the smoke is terrible for human health and your neighbours get to enjoy this. Heat can easily be achieved with efficient split systems these days. If you're rural then all good if that's your thing. You know what else is bad in urban areas? Factories, cars, smokers, humans in general. Dark matter scientist, can breathe underwater, mind reader and can freeze matter just by willing it. Trust me, its in my sig. Re: Fireplace - yay or nay 18Apr 26, 2021 10:47 pm Good for you for then for choosing to make other peoples' health worse when you don't have to. Re: Fireplace - yay or nay 19Apr 26, 2021 11:05 pm stonesthrow Good for you for then for choosing to make other peoples' health worse when you don't have to. Do you drive a car? Use aviation? Ffs read my earlier post in this thread. p By virtue of you being Alive you are contributing to poor health outcomes of those around you. If you've had kids, you've furthered your carbon footprint in unimaginable ways. So unless you are litterally offsetting every single thing you do in life (read:impossible) you can get off your soapbox. Just because you're not putting smoke into the air from a fire doesn't mean you're not part of a bigger problem. Dark matter scientist, can breathe underwater, mind reader and can freeze matter just by willing it. Trust me, its in my sig. Re: Fireplace - yay or nay 20Apr 26, 2021 11:48 pm Just because everyone has a carbon footprint/pollutes to some degree, doesn't mean you should go and make it worse than you have to. That argument has never made sense. I actually love fire places and have one in my current rental. If I was in the country I'd probably put one in. As I'm building new in an urban area, I've got a choice of easily putting in a small split system to warm (and cool) myself and make the air much cleaner for all my surrounding neighbours. I'm still warm?? It's a cost effective alternative. It's such a minute sacrifice to ensure that I'm not decreasing my neighbours' health both in the short and long term. Hi all, My first post, we are building a house and can’t decide the layout of the lounge room. We have a large N/W facing window and are wanting to have a wood slow… 0 13719 No the fireplace doesn’t work. It’s been enclosed. I’m not sure what was removed, as it was done quite some time ago - well before what I can see with photos online… 2 11569 I would probably render it and then paint it as per your other advice, or gyrpock over the top. 1 3303 |