How much in total did your woodburning stove cost?

[jennymac]

We are looking at getting one in our new build and the fireplace has been prepared accordingly. Clearview stoves have been recommended by a relative but while the stove itself is only £1100, the total cost including the flue and fitting brings it up to £2400 which is quite pricey. What did others pay so I know we are not being ripped off? Plus, would you try to bargain the price down a bit?

[upahill]

Where are you?

[EMS23]

5kw Wood burning stove and all work to chimney came to about £1800. Existing hearth was within regs so no work to that.

We saved a few hundred vs Topstak quote by going with an independent guy recommended to us by our local pub and other people in our village.

I love love love our fire and when we had a power cut recently, eating chips sat by our roaring fire was the best!!

[GreenandBlacksAddict]

Can recommend I & S Stoves website, they are not Clearview dealers but have everything else and very helpful lady on phone. Don't know what area you are (they are in Worcestershire) but they are Hetas registered and will sell you the stove to have it fitted by someone else and advise what flue etc required. i have heard horror stories of people buying stoves off ebay, stove might be obsolete, unable to get parts , but I & S Stoves do sometimes renovate some and put them on ebay too.

[MrsJasonBourne]

We recently had a wood burner fitted from Wood Burning Solutions in Stowmarket in Suffolk. They are brilliant. Burner is an Arrow Signature, I think, and it's 5kw and cost £700, although it might have been on offer. Fitting was £1000 and before that we paid our builder about £300 to sort out the fireplace. We are forever chopping wood but it looks lovely and really chucks out some heat. They are Hetas and very good. They've got a website. I did think they were going to charge a small fortune to get the little crane-thing up the side of the house to work on the chimney but he said a ladder would be fine and saved us quite a bit of money so they're very honest!

[FlyingTeapot]

Our was £1760 for the woodburner, the flue, chimney swept. It's a Handsome and is quite slim in profile although quite a big one.

[captainmummy]

Schilke - i am in SouthEast england, SUrrey Sussex border and I paid nothing like £6k!

Don't have a big house either.

[pigsinmud]

I don't have a big house! I just live in a big house area. There is no way I am paying £6000 I have found another place which looks much smaller and good reviews on checkatrade, so I shall check that out.

[jennymac]

The guy from Clearview came out to do a survey last night and think we are just going to go with it. DH is hopefully going to try to get the price down a bit when he phones him to confirm dates next week but am not too hopeful so it looks like it will cost about £2400 plus a bit extra for putting down a hearth. Think we are just going to go with slate though so shouldn't be too much for that.

[NewHouse]

Is it possible to have one in an extention, so straight out of the roof, with no chimney? How do they work when heating the other rooms? Is seasoned wood easy and costly to get delivered, and where do you store it?

[pigsinmud]

Jennymac - glad it's getting sorted.
Just got another quote of £1400 for installation including materials & vat, excluding stove. Plus possibly bit extra for cherry picker if needed. Bit different to £4000 installation from the other company. He says Stovax one won't fit unless we have knocked out - extra £500 for work, plaster etc..

Now looking at Firebelly as that will fit straight in. Anyone got one of these?

[captainmummy]

newhouse - you can have a stove with a pipe straight up thro the ceiling. Lots of websites have pictures of central-standing stoves with pipes up.

Schilke Ive seen those firebelly stoves in the local fireplace store. Don't they come in different colours too? I think they are aluminium too.

[Pudden]

our fitting was £1180 which included

steel liner
flue
oak beam mantle
stone hearth
new chimney pot and cowl
sweeping chimney
enlarging opening and making good
register plate

bought our stove ourselves

Damn fine bit of work Pic in profile

[fluffygal]

My stove was 400 and I am fitting it myself and getting building inspector out. I bought the flue liner for 90 pounds for 6 metres and an installation kit for 75 then discovered my chimney has a clay flue liner already so have returned theseand just need a connector flue pipe and an angled one. I concreted, rendered and tiled with quartz tiles the chimney and hearth myself, just finishing it now! If you do it yourself though you really need to read through the building regs as they are quite specific. I am expecting on spending roughly 800 quid in total (as I am not sure how much my council charges for building inspector- apparantly it could be between 75-300 quid depending on council. Oh meant to say I bought my stove from //www.modernstoves.co.uk and they were very helpful, not sure how much a fitter would cost as didn't look into it.

[captainmummy]

Well done fluffygal!
Round here the building insp charges about £150 to come out - if you use HETAS that charge doesn't apply. Re; clay liner - are you positive it is not porous? We paid for the liner and insulation,(to keep heat in) as our 1930s chimney went thro ds3s bedroom and I wanted to be certain the fumes could filter thro the old brick.
Our £1000 was only £200 less than yours. (weknocked out and enlarged chimney, tiled the surround, laid the hearth ourselves)

[captainmummy]

couldn't filter!

[fluffygal]

Thanks Captain, its been a mission though! I was going to get one of those smoke pellets to see if the clay liner was in tact and the fumes couldn't leak through, is there any alternative ways of testing it?

[Emma2228]

we bought a woodburning stove recently and with installation - replacement we fit into £1000:-)

[SpringHeeledJack]

[captainmummy]

Not sure fluffy- don't think a smoke pellet would generate enough to filter thro if there is a prob. Maybe phone HETAS and ask advice? Does the chimney go through bedrooms upstairs?

[ShowOfHands]

We bought fromm here. Total cost 1.5k.

[fluffygal]

It goes through my bedroom upstairs, is literally just big enough for the fluepipe though (very small chimney), might do a bit of googling then and if no results phone HETAS.

[captainmummy]

And buy a carbon-monoxide detector-alarm. Carbon-monoxide is colourless,odourless and almost undetectable - until it kills you (by sending you to sleep!) Everyone with a log-burner (or gas boiler) should have one.

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

Can I resurrect this thread? My living room already has a fully operational fireplace (cast-iron open basket) and hearth which we use on and off during the winter. It's not our only source of heat - more decorative. The chimney is in really good nick, draws beautifully and is kept pretty clean. We don't get any smoke coming back down or anything leaking into other parts of the house, put it that way.

So the question is... do you always need flue liners and other extra things mentioned above or does a good chimney bring down the cost significantly? I'd obviously get the retailer to do a survey... just trying to work out the likely add-ons in advance.

[Pannacotta]

Cogito are you wanting to put in a woodburner?

[SpringHeeledJack]

my hope of getting one of these before Christmas has gone up the chimbley, I fear, but I live in hope