Hi
Our house is about 10 years old, built by one of the major builders, and has provision for a gas fire in the living room. There is a false chimney breast with a K vent twin wall insulated flue with a signed certificate of installation and an internal ledge at about 40cm fom the floor. The flue is suitable for a gas fire of the type we would like to fit.
We wanted to have a simple hole in the wall gas fire installed thinking that would be the lowest cost and lowest disruption option so we had a local company come in and quote for the installation.
The surveyor(salesman) barely looked at the flue and through the course of the meeting increased the scale of work from a simple installation to demolishing the chimney breast and flue and replacing it with one that they install. The cost of this was £1000s in labour alone.
We can't understand why we shouldn't be able to use the existing flue, or at least have it tested, before deciding to use it or not. Are we missing something?
Also assuming the flue is ok, could anyone offer a guesstimate for the cost of fitting a cassette fire?
Any help would be appreciated as the cost of the fire doesn't leave us with much budget for installation and the initial quote is making us think about giving upon the whole idea.
Thanks in advance for any advice
Cm
Our house is about 10 years old, built by one of the major builders, and has provision for a gas fire in the living room. There is a false chimney breast with a K vent twin wall insulated flue with a signed certificate of installation and an internal ledge at about 40cm fom the floor. The flue is suitable for a gas fire of the type we would like to fit.
We wanted to have a simple hole in the wall gas fire installed thinking that would be the lowest cost and lowest disruption option so we had a local company come in and quote for the installation.
The surveyor(salesman) barely looked at the flue and through the course of the meeting increased the scale of work from a simple installation to demolishing the chimney breast and flue and replacing it with one that they install. The cost of this was £1000s in labour alone.
We can't understand why we shouldn't be able to use the existing flue, or at least have it tested, before deciding to use it or not. Are we missing something?
Also assuming the flue is ok, could anyone offer a guesstimate for the cost of fitting a cassette fire?
Any help would be appreciated as the cost of the fire doesn't leave us with much budget for installation and the initial quote is making us think about giving upon the whole idea.
Thanks in advance for any advice
Cm