Average cost of wood burner installation?

[Hyperfish101]

We need an old fireplace removed, the gap made good, the stove installed. Anyone done this? Is it expensive? Messy?

We paid about £2k and £650 for a woodburner. If you aren't that fussed (I love ours) then get it plastered and twiggy shit or an electric stove.

We decided not to on health grounds - my GP friend said latest emissions data shows it's equivalent to a diesel car idling in your living room for as long as it's burning! Small kids in the house so just no way.

I'm doing pretty tiles on the inner back and a nice mantle shelf and leaving it free of twiggy shit for now :) but will see with time if we feel we need it! Best of luck deciding.

Some great ideas on here. Thanks all. Going to get a recess and maybe stick an electric stove in there.

We’ve an electric, paid £500 for it. Looks good, no mess.

Is it a stove? How was it fitted! Just in a recess?

I have a Charnwood. We run our central heating and hot water from ours.

I have priced the small one for you and it is £820. My son got his removed and it wasn’t as expensive as some of these prices. Go to a local stove shop have a look and ask them. They often have a list of people they use or recommend. Get a quote from them. They should come around for free and give a quote( don’t ask for an estimate) which they need to work to and sometimes if you buy the stove from the same shop you will get a discount. My son got one.

We live in the north too.

Alternatively you could get the fireplace removed. Save up some more money and do it in the future. It is better to line the chimney. We didn’t at first ( couldn’t afford it) but have now. There is nothing quite like a real fire. With a wood burner the doors are closed so you see it but it isn’t like the old coal fires.

We had a Trolla in our last house and it heated a two bedroom bungalow in the winter in the north of Scotland.

My DS3 has a Dimplex in his I think he paid about £150 some of these electric fires are dearer than a wood burner.

Ours was 2k but we already had a cast iron fireplace in situ so didn’t need any knocking about.

Op. You don’t fit electric stoves, you just sit them down and plug them in.

You can get them as low as sixty quid from Amazon.

We're looking to put a woodburning stove into a new build, so would need the whole thing including a flue going through the wall and outside the house. I think it may cost an eye watering amount!

Yes ours is a Dimplex Optimyst so you put water in it for a “smoke” effect, it’s just sat back into the recess and plugged in to the mains.

My husband did ours. £800 for the wood burner. £400 for the flue. £400 for the plasterer once we’d knocked out the bricks.

A couple of hundred for the fire cement and other bits and pieces. It was scary with him on the roof but saved us a few grand! We were quoted £3,500 plus £400 for plasterer so £4K approx.

@Maybenexttime08 we had that done 5 years ago (so it might be a bit more now) but it was about 5k, including the cost of the stove. It was surprisingly easy and was done in a day. We have since had an extension built so what was an external silver coloured chimney is now a standard boxed in chimney up through a bedroom.

Ours was £1600 including the stove. They were in and out inn8 hours. Bare wall to log burner

@Hyperfish101 look up multi fuel stove installers on Facebook they do a deal.

Stove, flue liner, installation and lighting for £1800

Thanks everyone.

@ifonerememberstoturnonthelight have you used this company? That seems so cheap! Good offer.

@Hyperfish101 yes they did the installation I shared a photo of. It was a solid wall before. It's amazing and I love it

www.multifuelstoveinstaller.com/2020stoveinstallationoffer there you go

I'll be installing a gas stove soon, thanks so much for that link @ifonerememberstoturnonthelight!

Thanks.

We ordered our fire ourself online, paid a builder to knock out the fire that was there and build the surround etc then had an approved fire fitter to fit the stove etc worked out cheaper that way for us, fire was £750, builder £150 and fitting £250 ( we didn’t need a liner tho so that cut costs down

Just to clarify they do do gas fires but mainly it's wood burners

I'm following with interest as I'm moving soon and would love a log burner in my new place. £4K is a lot of money though.

Op in the house I'm selling I opened up the hole and fitted a cheap pine surround I bought from eBay - £99. The tiles were cheap from Wickes. It was a full renovation and I didn't have any cash left!

It looks lovely bored

I discovered an inglenook when we bought our house. It had a horrible beige, tiled fired place. DH said no way were we doing it unless I did it. I was much younger and fitter then and very determined. Took a couple of days ( I had a 8,6 and 18 mth old too) and I was given advice by a frien in the building trade. There was huge stones cemented in behind the fireplace. I was so smug when I did it. It lovely and the tall 6 year old could stand up in it. We had a builder/ plumber fit the stove.

So if you are fit and determined do it otherwise get about three or four quotes and ask locally too.
Are you north west or north east?