Installing woodburner into existing fireplace

[moomiemoo]

We've currently got a hole in the wall in our living room.

I would love a wood burner - what's involved?

We've got a chimney which I assume would need lining and a flue. Will the back and sides of the hole that is currently there need anything doing? Fireproof plasterboard?

And assume there will need to be something underneath the stove as well?

Trying to get an idea of the cost and work involved before I get too excited!

We recently looked into getting a woodburner to go into an existing fireplace.

We got all excited when we found a really nice woodburner for less than £300 but then, by the time we'd added on all the extra (flue, adapter ring, register plate etc) it doubled the overall cost

this is a good site for answering general questions

We've just had one put in a couple of weeks ago. We had £2,000 to spend and for that we got a small british stove (better quality than contintental models apparently), flue and all other parts required, granite hearth and the fitting. We didn't have a clue before we started but it all came together quite easily in the end. We had all the local companies quote, had the chimney swept and looked around for a good deal online for the stove we wanted. The cheapest quote came in at £1400 but that was a poorer quality stove and without the flue (you don't always need one, depends on age of house and quality of chimney apparently). Anyway through word of mouth we came across an indendent fitter who was much cheaper than the shops quoted. He didn't finish off the surround but we knew that wasn't in the price and were happy to do it ourselves. It's been really great! Don't think they are cost effifient on fuel however as the price of seasoned wood in rising according to our supplier as there's a shortage of good wood that's going to cause problems in the next few years - that's what they told us anyway!

That's so helpful littlebearsmumm thanks so much.