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how much would it cost approximately to have a gas fire removed and a wood burner fitted? what does it involve? is it worth it? can anyone give me advice please?

The cost will depend on what needs done for the flue. I don't know about having the gas fire removed but the fitting of the wood burner will depend on if there is already the space there to fit the correct sort of flue for the wood burner.

We did the work ourselves and fitted a steel double chimney pipe. We are in France so regulations may be different for the UK. Materials cost about 500€ for the flue and chimney stack - we already had the stove. Our flue goes through 2 floors and up out the roof - would have to ask DH how many metres it is.

Is it worth it? Depends on cost, but certainly wood stoves are great. Put out a lot of heat and a nice dry heat. Wood is not cheap though. Do you have a source of good cheap wood? Do you want the stove to heat more than one room?

I may have imagined this but don't you sometimes get a grant for fitting a wood burner?

We fitted our own, got chimney swept and did not need to get the chimney lined/flue all the way up, chimney sweep said it was fine and it has been. Is it worth it? Definitely altho we got a multi-fuel stove so burn smokeless fuel most of the time, keeps the chill off the house on the coldest of nights.

right then; we had a gas fire removed and multi fuels stove fitted last october.

We bought the fire and Hetas fitter provided everything else below

10m steel liner
oak beam
travertine hearth
enlarging opening and making good incl. new lintel
register plate
flue
refitting chimney pot
cowl and cage
cleaning chimney

cost £1150 in total and took two days to do. Photo in profile- a Morsø Cleanheat Panther

Let me know if you want further info

Oooh that's a lot less than I thought it would be!

Does it heat the room above?

Would it matter that there is still a gas fire on the other side of the chimney do you think?

Ours cost £6k - but we had to put an external flue in that run up the outside of the house plus a couple of extra radiators, the stove itself cost £1200 of that, think the flue was £1400 (it's very long) plus 2 days of fitting, removal of boiler, plumbing in new tank and pump so it heated the radiators.

that £1150 doesn't include the fire though!

grumpla our chimney is a shared stack and people next door have a gas fire on their side. They say their house is warmer becaue of our stove! Ours heats almost the whole house, through rising heat and warming the chimney breast in our room. It is still warm the next day when you feel the wall. We don't use our central heating at all and we are in a semi in chilly north east

We paid £1100 to have a gas fire taken out and the woodburner fitted with a chimney liner and the hearth fitted
We bought the woodburner and the hearth separately

thanks, cheaper than i thought so definitely doable!

It is SOO worth it! We had a crap one and have just had it replaced with a bigger one that sticks out into the room. It is brilliant! Had it since Wednesday and it's not gone out yet! Nor have we had any other heating on! We live in a 4 bed bungalow and the bedrooms are normally quite cold but the woodburner heat stretches all the way down! I love it!

Does anyone have one that also has gas so that when the fire cools down the gas fires up and kicks in.