wood burning stove

[tdunbavin]

That's interesting I'm looking at getting some quotes at the moment, could you let me know what I should be looking to pay? I've had quotes where they insisted on using liner because it is safer.

[KidKruger]

IMO as long as your chimney stack brickwork doesn't leak you shouldn't have to have a liner.

[nakinyeltab]

Knock off about ?1000 from the quote if you're not going to line........

[KidKruger]

Is it a grand to line ?

Jeez - to drop a liner down a chimney and secure it at each end. I'm in the wrong trade.

[*Bob*]

You might need to sort the brickwork out on top too. New pot, cowl fitting. Muck about on giant ladder? Hire scaffold? Jackhammer out the existing backfilled fireplace. There's the liner to pay for - ?20/m? The closure plate, couple of fittings. Bags of vermucillite to fill the flue after the lining's gone down. Hopefully the liner won't encounter any unusual angles or problems en route down meaning it might get stuck or you get a house full of 100 year-old lime mortar and soot. Re-fit hearth and render nicely. Then there's the hetas certificate for ?45. And of course VAT accounts for 20%..

Maybe just get a couple of dudes in..