Decorative fuel-effect gas appliance
The Scottish Building Standards, Part I. Technical Handbook – Domestic, Appendix A Defined Terms, defines a decorative fuel-effect gas appliance as: ‘…an open-flued appliance designed to simulate a solid fuel open fire primarily for decorative purposes and intended to be installed so that the products of combustion pass unrestricted from the firebed to the flue.’
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