Already have a chimney? You need 1. Stove 2. Liner 3. Fitting Pack 4. Chimney closure plate Hardiebacker board from Builder's merchants or galvanised sheet. That's it! No chimney? Check out our shed kits or let us design your clip-together chimney design - easy peasy. Julian was previously a full-time installer of wood burning stoves including solid fuel heating systems.
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By Julian Patrick. If your stove was installed before this, there is a good possibility that needs a liner fitting. Flexible liner and twin wall systems can degrade over time and will need regular sweeping to prolong their life.
This is best done at the beginning of Summer. To be a legal installation a connection needs to be made from the woodburning stove to the top of the chimney. If you do not have a clay or pumice lined chimney, as many new builds do, you may be advised to use flexible liner. Flexible liner made of grade steel is used to line the chimney connecting the cowl on the chimney pot, to the vitreous pipe exiting the woodburning or multifuel stove, via the chimney flue.
Suitable for wood, gas, and oil it has around a 15 year life expectancy when used with these fuels. HETAS approved product. Visit our sister company; Cleansweep Vac Services. Another requirement of the regulations is the hearth area, which is the area underneath the stove and directly in front of it, shown here by the black and white tiles.
These regulations have recently been reduced and state that the hearth should extend a minimum of mm in front of the stove. However, we feel that this is a little small and we recommend mm in front of the stove in order to protect your flooring or carpet from being damaged by any burning debris that occasionally may escape from the fire when you are loading it.
We recommend 20mm or 30mm honed granite as it is very durable but other suitable materials are slate, gass, marble, stone, tiles and precast concrete. We will measure for your new hearth and have the Stonemason cut it to size ready for fitting, usually a week later.
Contact us for woodburner repairs. A cowling is also required as this will stop birds and squirells from sheltering in your warm chimney and setting up home.
A nest in your chimney will cause harmful gases to escape into your house and may even set alight and cause a chimney fire. There are many different types of cowl on the market. A suspending cowl also known as a pot hanging cowl is attached to the chimney pot and holds the liner in place.
It will protect the opening from the weather and also from birds as it is surrounded by steel mesh. As stainless steel lasts for years longer than cheaper materials; we only supply cowls made of Stainless Steel from HETAS approved suppliers. Take a look at our install gallery. Another requirement of the regulations was to ensure that when a stove is installed that adequate access is provided to sweep the chimney in the future. Older installations may not allow for this which makes it very difficult for the chimney to be cleaned and your chimney sweep may refuse to do it and indeed condemn your installation.
You would usually find an access hatch in the section of black vitreous pipe that directly connects to your stove and enters the chimney. They are mainly used on stoves without a removable throat plate or baffle plate on the inside of the stove, such as Gas woodburner effect stoves. Most stoves have a removable throat plate as this ensures good cleaning from the tip of flue to the bottom of the stove. The ventilation area is based on the rated output of the appliance.
Because we now build homes with airtightness in mind for energy efficiency, the ventilation needed has increased for homes built from , which might have airtightness of five or less. This provides some or all of the air required for ventilation from an external air supply rather than from just within the room, to address this issue in airtight homes.
It is also essential to ensure you have a permanent source of air that keeps the stove burning efficiently and avoids the production of carbon monoxide, a highly toxic, colourless and odourless gas that has potentially fatal consequences. Even with the ventilation provision met, the Regs require the installation of a carbon monoxide alarm in rooms containing any solid fuel combustion appliance.
These devices are usually battery powered and have an alarm to alert users when the working life of the detector is due to expire. A blank example in the back of Approved Document J can be used for this purpose. You should, in turn, be provided with a completion certificate from your installer or main contractor. Paul is a building control officer and has written eight books on home improvements and building homes.
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