Do I need a steel lintel for my new hole in wall fire

[Manu873]

I have just bought a Gazco Studio Slimline balanced flue hole in wall fire. Will I need a steel lintel to support my brick work. The internal brick will be cut for the fire to sit into and a circular hole will be cut for the flue pipe. My gas fitter says I won't?
Can anyone advise. (10 year old house no chimney)

 

[45yearsagasman]

Your man is correct. Using a core drill the hole will be the correct size and requires no lintel. Plenty of boiler flues are run through walls like that.

 

[gas112]

Although the fire instructions say lintel req , seen loads fitted in a mixture of brick/breeze and thermalite with no lintel with no ill affects to structure of rest of the wall /building

 

[Manu873]

Is it the outside wall that is the supporting wall in that case. Yes a core drill will make the hole for the flue pipe but quite a big rectangle is cut into the internal wall to house the fire unit.
Thanks for your replies. My first ever post on here

 

[denso13]

You need a big hole in the internal wall, nearly 800mm wide. I'd definitely fit a lintel to save any future problems.

 

[gas112]

going back on myself the ones i have seen are standard size fires and usually only about 450mm t0 max 600mm holes but some of those gazco are 1200mm wide i would use a lintel in those