Moving wood burner to different place in room

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Hi all, I’d love to hear if anyone has any experience of moving their wood burning stove?

We have a long living room with a wood burner in the centre of a long side. We’d like to put a wall up in the living room (effectively making the living room smaller). This would mean we’d have to move the wood burner as otherwise it would be stuck in the corner which would look weird and be impractical.

Has anyone moved a wood burner around? It is possible to do, or would it mean erecting a whole new chimney? I realise this might be a stupid question, but I have no idea how these things get set up.

If anyone has done something similar, how much of a faf was it? And how costly?

Thanks for any ideas and guidance!

I think you would need a chimney or external flue pipe, running up the outside.
Practically you need a HETAS engineer to advise you on the specifics required for your house.

Thanks @Beebumble2 we currently have a chimney but it’ll be about 1.5m too far down the one wall.
Any idea if we can move the wood burner but connect it up with the existing chimney?
I realise this is a pretty unusual exercise… 😅

Flues need to run vertically. For draw and cleaning of clinker. Even small bends can cause a build up of deposits.
You are asking if a slanted flue would work?
It might, but I would speak with a specialist.
Personally I really really wouldn’t go down this route. Been there and done it albeit on a boat.

Most ordinary chimneys need liners for wood burners. Disconnecting and moving the stove itself is messy, but not a problem. We took one out and sold it on.
But there are strict regulations about the installation of wood burners as wrongly installed stove can kill. I can only reiterate that asking a HETAS registered installer for advice is the way to go.

Any photos ?

We have a wood burner in a corner with diagonal glue out of external wall linked to external vertical glue. Our wood burner is designed for a corner, and is a contura so it can sit safely quite close to the walls. Would that be an option?

You do really need an engineer in to work out angles and lengths though.

Also if it is an old burner a newer more efficient one may be a better investment.

Thanks all, that helpful for a start. Sounds like it could be fairly complicated. We’ll get a builder in as a next stage.