Anyone have a Bioethanol heater?
How well do they work / economical are they?
Will Bioethanol prices rocket in line with gas and leccy?
We've got one. It was bought as we didn't want the hassle of a full-on log burner install, or any sort of balanced flue set-up... after all, we've got central heating anyway and 3 foot thick stone walls we'd have to install through (and no direct line from the current fireplace to the original chimney that end of the house). So it was bought for decoration and "to take the edge off" as my better half says.
It does a fair bit more than take the edge off, though - it gets bloody hot and that goes through most of the house!
It does smell a bit, but far less than the calor fire it replaced. And probably less than M-in-L's log burner, too, but not quite so nice and woody, obviously.
I'd say it wouldn't be cheap to run as a primary heat source - IIRC we buy about £50 worth of low odour and that's 3 or 4 gallons, but the last order is probably over 2 years ago as it was a mild winter. Each fill of the burner lasts for 2 long sessions - maybe an hour or so each time, until the house is too hot!
It does look pretty - I uploaded a random video some time ago when someone else was asking ... ignore the telly noise in the background, please!
Fire, I'll take you to burn
