Planning to install a multi-fuel stove, eco conforming etc. It's really small - the cardboard is the size of it - about 4-5 kwh to heat one room.
1934 semi. Had an open gas fire in there now removed, chimney swept and checked by registered Sweep and seems ok enough to burn a traditional fire with the new eco fuel.
Why do people install it in a widened chimney? Surely better freestanding on the hearth - as I've seen in houses without a chimney. All the heat then goes into the room.
Got 2 quotes and they both want to open out the fireplace at great expense £2-3000. Can't afford all that. Can't the liner go out the back of the stove and use the existing gap to the flue? Possible have to open that bit if not wide enough for the 5 inch liner? Extend the hearth a bit. The second image seems to be my type.
If I really have to remove the fireback is it safe to do it myself. Or at least do the hard labour and get somebody to pretty it up and install the liner etc?
Finally, maybe a pellet stove would be better as it doesn't get so hot?
Thanks for any advice from anyone who has done similar.
1934 semi. Had an open gas fire in there now removed, chimney swept and checked by registered Sweep and seems ok enough to burn a traditional fire with the new eco fuel.
Why do people install it in a widened chimney? Surely better freestanding on the hearth - as I've seen in houses without a chimney. All the heat then goes into the room.
Got 2 quotes and they both want to open out the fireplace at great expense £2-3000. Can't afford all that. Can't the liner go out the back of the stove and use the existing gap to the flue? Possible have to open that bit if not wide enough for the 5 inch liner? Extend the hearth a bit. The second image seems to be my type.
If I really have to remove the fireback is it safe to do it myself. Or at least do the hard labour and get somebody to pretty it up and install the liner etc?
Finally, maybe a pellet stove would be better as it doesn't get so hot?
Thanks for any advice from anyone who has done similar.
). If the chimney sweep can also uncap the chimney or fit new cowl etc why can't they put the liner in first and then I can get a Hetas engineer to install the stove, check it over etc. But no, apparently they have to use a Hetas man (so at least honest) but I can do it myself!!! It's a kind of monopoly. It would make sense for the Sweep guy to fit the liner to the new cowl as that bit is striaghtforward though fiddly by the looks of it and of course someone who's done it before will do it faster.
