How much (ballpark) would you expect to pay for this fireplace opening/fitting job?

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Victorian terrace with bricked over/plastered chimney breast wall in living room.

I have bought an original Victorian fire + surround.

I want the cavity knocked through/re-opened up and the fireplace fitted + a small tiled hearth. Purely decorative. Don't want working fire/wood burner or anything like that.

Have a builder coming Friday to quote and have no idea of even a guideline acceptable price as am total home-owning/DIY newbie.

Anyone with any experience of similar around?

Ask how long it will take and how many people will do the work. Then you can work out what they are charging per person per day when they've told you the cost of the job. If it's £500 per person per day I'd say it's too much.

Now you're saying purely decorative but is it worth having it put in in such a way that if you did want to use it it would be possible, subject to checking and lining the chimney, etc?

I had this done. Including the cost of the fireplace it was 5k

I should add, it was a trickier job than you might think & it took 3 men.

5 grand???!!

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When we had a Victorian fireplace fitted it came to about £1500 in total, but that included restoration of the fireplace, having an electric socket removed, a gas terminal removed from the chimney, replacement chimney pot and having the chimney swept. The fireplace had already been opened up so we didn't have to pay for that.

We had the fireplace fitted by someone recommend by the fire restoration shop. It took one man one day to do. I'm afraid I can't remember how much that bit cost.

We had an old back boiler removed and the opening squared off - was about £400 I think. Then had the whole room replastered including around the chimney breast - about another £400. Tiled the hearth ourselves. We did then have a wood burner installed for £1300 including a new liner (not inc the stove itself.)

winey yours is the only figure that is even close to what I was anticipating tbh. My dad is an experienced QS/PM in the building industry and he estimated £500-600 maximum for one man taking 1-2 days (assuming no complications).

Am up north, hoping that makes a lower estimate more likely. Oh and the guy is more of a builder/handyman so maybe that will reduce cost too.

Would happily have a go at tiling the hearth myself. Will look into that.

Thanks all.

I just had this done in London and it cost £700 for two fireplaces. They did a beautiful job and it looks like really good. Happy to share details if you are in London

And it was all done in one day

Opened up and installed stove and hearth £3000. The stove cost £1500

Following as I'd also be interested in how much this costs. I was hoping a couple of hundred for installation of a standard fireplace. Newgate I'm London so would love the company you used.

Thanks Newgate that sounds really reasonable (and quick!). I'm in Yorkshire but thanks for the offer ☺️.

Builder has just been, seemed to think it was all pretty straightforward. He's going to work out cost and let me know so I'll report back!

Same OP with a name change btw .

For those in London. I used Eddie's fireplace www.eddiestoveinstallations.co.uk