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I'm no expert on how the liner was fitted at the base but it doesn't appear to fix directly to the fire or surround. The liner drops down the chinmey and then there is lots of what appears to be filler closing off between the opening at the back of the fire place and the liner - does that make...

Hi, The story is as follows: In Oct 2008 we moved in and the fire had a clean bill of health and passed as safe. In Oct 2009 annual check revealed failure due to no flue liner, inadequate ventilation and broken matrix (?) of the gas fire. Despite the fire being in exactly the same condition...

Thanks for the response - sorry for the delay. I have attached 2 photos - one of the fire - it's an open gas fire and not sure of make / model as cant actually get to any identifying features on it The other photo is of the chimney / flue and the cowl. Added by mod:

Not sure if I should be here or in the roof section but here goes. I rent and after a protracted saga we have a new gas fire with a retro filtted flue liner (5 inch). It's a stone built terrace with 4 flues in one brick chimney breast (2 of ours and 2 from next door) but each of us only has 1...