wood burning stove in single storey extension

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Looking at a house with a single storey kitchen extension - all glass bifolds. How difficult would it be to put a woodburning stove in - I guess it would need a free standing chimney of some sort fitted. Will it just look a bit odd poking out of the roof?

It looks a bit like this.

I'm in oz so building regs are possibly different but we had minimum separation requirements between the wall and the heat source, dependent upon the composition of the wall. We have plasterboard/gyprock walls so dh tiled to halfway. If we had brick walls, we wouldn't have had a problem. We had a really small corner to put it into so needed to be as tight to the wall as possible.

We chose the Morso 1400 as the heat shields on it also helps with the equation.

We went to a kitchen granite supplier with a template of the space and they cut and polished a non flammable base for us. As it was so small, we only needed an offcut so it was very reasonable pricewise.

Your issue is going to be the flue. It needs to be located a minimum distance from any opening windows. Assuming the first floor windows open, the chimney would need to terminate above them. Which would look ridiculous on a single storey building, unless the flue can be fixed against the back wall of the house. Even so it then needs to be a fair few metres above eaves height to have the minimum horizontal clearance to the pitched roof.

The flue is what is bothering me. Stove would have to be on wall nearest garden so would be towering above the rest of the extension!

If you contact a local company they would probably be happy to come out and do a survey for you and advise accordingly - they may be able to offer a solution you hadn't thought of.

I looked at similar for my single storey extension with bifolds and encountered the same issue. The flue would have had to go all the way to the main roof and extend 1m beyond that. Ugly and costly

So instead I looked at flueless gas stoves as they only require a vent. But when the gas engineer came to test whether the existing gas installation could support another appliance he said that wouldn't be possible without upgrading the pipes from the meter (front of the property), so I just gave up as it would have been too costly to run new pipes and new floorboards had been fitted throughout.

I can't remember but there is also a minimum distance required between the stove and any glass. And there are also minimum cubic requirements (flueless applicances will shut down automatically if not enough air in the room they're installed)

You can angle the stove pipe to a certain degree, but I think it would look rather odd because you'd have to angle it back towards the main house and then stick it up through the main roof, with all the associated works.
We have a retro fitted multi fuel stove, (the stove pipe passes through the sitting room back through the wall to the kitchen, up through the master bedroom and through the attic to the roof) which I love, but having seen how good some of the electric stoves look now, (which they weren't when we had the multifuel fitted), I would honestly have gone for one of those. All the cosyness but none of the work!

Hi , Woodburners is what I do 😀 depending on the size of extension into the garden you maybe be able to get away with a 3.5 m flue off the top going through the roof. Yes it would stick out around 2m. To do this your flue needs to be a min of 2.3m from the main house. There's a fantastic range of stoves called contura (check out there website for your local dealer) these work on the lowest flue and have the lowest distance to combustible therefore can go as close as 100mm to your walls and windows with no protection. Good luck

Ooh fantastic . That exactly what we could use.

HEATAS regs clash with kitchen regs . Something to do with one requires extraction of are and the other requires no extraction. Not sure if the exact details but your builder should be aware .

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