Chimney Breast

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Has anyone recently replaced a previously removed chimney breast and if so what did it cost?

DS is off to view a house this weekend, fell in love on Rightmove and has saved for years for a deposit with some extra for his only wish, a duel fuel stove/log burner.

All good and very excited, until I pointed out that it looked as though the chimney breast had been removed.

We once lived on the same row of terraces that were built in 1902 so I know there was one once.

It is HUGELY expensive to get it reinstated? It's a real shame but I think it will be a deal breaker for him.

Ours was just taken out in the living room and we got it put back with gas fire and Victorian style fireplace - cost was £3600 for work, £400 for fireplace, £105 for tiles and £200 for building control. But we also needed new flooring in living room and to redecorate which was £6,600 more but have a large living room and got done to very high standard and needed pillars taking out. By London. He will need neighbour party wall agreement and building control.

We got money taken off after survey to cover this work as the chimney had been taken out in an unsafe way.

I'm not an expert on this but I think you can have a stove without a chimney. Sure someone else on here will know more than me but here's an article though do get expert advice.

www.woodburners.com/installations/no-chimney,-no-problem.html

Thanks Penguin, I think it's going to be too expensive for a first home, but that second option certainly looks interesting, and it's useful to know anything is possible, just not for this little pad!

I appreciate your response though 💐

You can certainly have a stove without a chimney breast.
Our chimney was in the wrong place for us. The whole thing was removed from top to bottom, and then the stove was sited elsewhere in the sitting room. A new flue goes up through the house and out through the roof (obviously). The stove is free standing, but the flue is boxed in upstairs. However, this was done as part of a lot of other work, so the chaos it could have caused didn't seem so bad amongst the general mayhem, rubble and dust.