Fitting a woodburner

[Merlot]

We have a small fireplace in our property (Victorian pub building, two stories with high roof). It is virtually useless at warming the place as most of the heat goes up the chimney rather than being projected into the room as the open fires in my parents house does. It is, however, very pretty and suits the room perfectly.

We are looking to install a woodburner as my experience of these (limited) and online resources suggest that they will be considerably more effective as a heating source.

We are only looking at a small (4-5KW) burner as the area to be heated is quite small. How much is this likely to cost?

Also, as our fireplace is small (quite low down), I am trying to work out how it would fit without opening up the fireplace area? Pic below (but quite dark). Can anyone advise?

[Rollin]

My quote for similar work

B/ Installation and commissioning of stove £145

C/ Italian black slate cut to size / two piece inner / one piece outer hearth.
Three piece outer slips cut and polished , black slate £395
D/chimney sweep and smoke test £35
E/ 2MM regester plate with inner closure steel cut to size £75

F/vitrous matt black flue pipe 125mm 36" long re top of stove £45
G/ Line inner chamber with supalux heat resisstant board 12mm back and two sides £195

H/ Hetas cert and plate to comply with building regs J £25
I/ Installation of customers surround , installation of new concrete lintel 48" to inc fitting of slate hearth and all powders required £125

Flue system
A/ multifuel liner 6" 150mm twin flex approx 8-9m supplied and fitted to inc all parts required ie top plate , clamp, adapter etc £595
B/ lead flashing , terminal, two lengths of twinwall 6" , storm collar, support plate £395
fitted

Please note all prices above are plus vat

A/ Stockton 5multifuel approved for smoke control areas £650 inc vat
C/ Scaffold system re tower - working height 10m £250 cash price.

Edited by Rollin on Saturday 2nd January 17:27

[Simpo Two]

Or you can do as a friend of mine did (he already had an inset brick fireplace that was big enough):

A/ Cheap Chinese stove from importer near Diss: £250
B/ Short bit of flue, rotating jobbie and minor bits: £50
C/ Register plate: £0 from a mate who can cut steel.


That was over a year ago and it seems to work perfectly.

[jep]

My folks just had an Esse inset stove put in. It slotted directly into the existing open fireplace and has been a revelation.

[koolchris99]

http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/wood_burning_stoves/...

we have this one.. its seriously warm... though ours looks a little better than that, the legs are shorter.. but its a villager one..

[fatboy b]

You might want to look at a "cassette" type like this

We have this - it's fab, and you can get a slightly smaller one.

Edited by fatboy b on Monday 4th January 13:20

[Defcon5]

The OHs gran has a big one of these in her living room, it kicks out a hell of a lot of heat!

[Silver993tt]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

circa 1k for the 5kw Stove, 1K for the fitting, flue, brick, plaster mantle etc.

Well worth it.

If interested in the blah blah about it PM , and I will bounce on an mail I sent to a friend about it all before.

That's very reasonable. I had a quote for something different, a stove costing £1400, glass floor plate £300, external double skinned flue (straight out the external wall and then straight up, no bends until right height above roof eaves. £4500

The double skinned flue I will require is about £1000 (incl vat) if I buy it, the burner is £1400, glass floor plate £300, so that's £2700. Where does the other £1800 come from? Work involved consists of making a hole in an external wall to accomodate 6" double skinned flue, and then literally straight up the wall outside using brackets. They told me a couple of hours to do that.

Of course I never followed up on the quote. I might just do it myself, I can't see anything complicated in it.

Edited by Silver993tt on Monday 4th January 13:37

[levron73]

Just had this done before Christmas.

7 metres of 5" Flu Liner - £294
Flu Adapter - £54
Insulation - £140
Register Plate - £45
Flu Pipe - £34
Cowl - £37
Front and Back hearth in slate - £143
Removal of existing fire place and fitting - £440

Plasterer - £120
Esse 8KW stove £780

So in total - £2087

Brilliant should have done it years ago!

Just need to get some logs delivered as buying them from Garden centers is currently costing more that the oil in the Aga!!!