we have an old style heating council fire ,and we have an old style front which is ghastly ........and we desperatly want to keep up with the joneses and buy a new front,but do not know what and where 2 get one from, please help ,ta tony.

tony williams, November 2007

we had a quote for new fire front and we could only get the same style but new and would cost £600 the guy advised us not to bother and have combi fitted.

maz, October 2008

I agree that they're not the best firefronts. However I recently did some digging attempting to find a replacement for someone and it appears that all firefronts for the Glow-worm BBU's are no longer available. A word of warning is don't even attempt to try and fit a different manufacturer's (Baxi) as these won't fit correctly and will spill fumes into the room. Fatal! Any good CORGI registered engineer should refuse to do this work anyway. Do NOT be tempted to do any work yourself.
Unless you can obtain a suitable firefront secondhand I'd advise to save your money and eventually get a condensing boiler (90% efficient against the BBU's 65%). You can then install a seperate gas fire or even an electric fire. The latter are a lot safer and should only have to be used as a back up heat for breakdowns.

Stephen, November 2007