Log burner

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Hi all
For those of you who have had a log burner installed this year can I ask how much it cost? Budgeting for one! Thank you

Four years ago cost 4 grand but it’s a large 11kw one. Which added another few hundred to it.

We’re getting one installed this week - 2.5k roughly.

£2k earlier this year (inc. installation etc.)

We've got one on it's way here next month.

About 2 grand for a 5 kw one, all in.

Mine was put in 2021, £2.4k. Included everything and slate, wooden beam.

Getting another installed now. The cost depended on several factors.
. The style of stove, many of the good cheaper ones were out of stock so had to buy at our top budget.
. Access to chimney and any alterations, ours requires scaffolding at a separate cost.
. The actual installation, including all the flue and bits £1300.

Should have added, our open fireplace met all the regulations and didn’t need a new hearth.

£2.2k for 5kw, flue liner, bit of demolition and reconstruction work to the chimney breast, plastering and slate hearth. The stove retails for approx £1100.

Very pleased with it.

If you want to poison yourself, your children and the environment go ahead. My brother has one and I get a cough after spending a long weekend there. He refuses to see any causality.

www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/indoor-wood-stoves-release-harmful-emissions-our-homes-study-finds

Oh goody we all get to play Google and post contradictory articles. I do love a study of 20 folks..

Ours was £2.5k in June. It was split pretty evenly between the cost of the stove itself, and then the cost of installation and all the bits needed for that (flue liner, etc).

We used to have an open fireplace, and chose a low emission DEFRA certified stove, and the difference it has made to smoke and ash/particles is incredible. It is also much more efficient, so our room gets hotter and stays warmer for longer.

Raining there are plenty of larger studies that prove the harmful effects. Just because you choose to ignore the risks, doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

We got a fairly basic set up on an all-in-one deal for 2k- pic attached, obviously still a work in progress!

Yes, that's why the British Lung Foundation and Asthma UK have issued warnings.

Dr Nick Hopkinson, medical director at Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation, said both indoor and outdoor pollution caused by wood burning stoves caused serious health issues, from breathing problems to an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and lung cancer.
“To protect yourself and others around you, especially children who are particularly vulnerable as their lungs are smaller and still developing, avoid buying a wood-burning stove or using an open fire if you have another source of fuel to cook and heat your home with.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/01/avoid-using-wood-burning-stoves-if-possible-warn-health-experts

🙂 dosnt take long for the doom mongers to arrive , on any thread with the words log burners on it 🔥.

2600 about 4 years ago stove 1600 hearth 400 twin wall 600 fitted it myself.

avoid buying a wood-burning stove or using an open fire if you have another source of fuel to cook and heat your home with

The prospect of powercuts this winter is probably driving many people's decision to buy a wood burning stove this year.

East Midlands - our chimney sweep said that for everything fitted 5kw stove and assuming some outside chimney work - repointing and new pot and cowl, he would expect no change out of £5k. Just idle conversation whilst he was cleaning it.

We paid £1800 in the South East last December. New build home so the chimney etc was ready for it to be installed, so not a tricky job.

We had one fitted 2 weeks ago. We already had the stove. Fitting alone was £1250

Those of you piling on the people correctly flagging up the health risks of wood burning stoves are clearly lucky not to have a child whose asthma is badly affected by poor air quality in the winter. My daughter’s asthma is triggered by wood smoke and round here on cold, damp, still evenings the pollution and its effects are noticeable. Bluntly, she ends up hospitalised on bad days. I love open fires and wood burners - they’re cosy and live flame is so relaxing to watch but they do present a real risk unfortunately

£3800 in June just gone. Included knocking out old fireplace, brick slips, hearth and oak beam plus chimney liner and of course the stove which was £1100 on its own.

We got a quote recently that was £2k for everything, definitely round us lots are offering packages between 2-2.5k however most are now booked up for the next 4 months

My husband has asthma. The DEFRA approved log burner which is only used in winter with seasoned wood has no impact on him. We also live rurally so not impacting anyone, and his asthma is no different in the spring and summer when it’s not used to the winter when it is. But yes if I had an asthmatic child or lived in a central location I’d not use one.

I have been umming and ahhing about a wood-burning stove. I LOVE the smell of burning wood, and the sound (although both of those are a bit about moist wood, which is clearly bad). I have always wanted an open fire, but where we live we can't have one (aside from environmental impact). But I did find this article reassuring: Are wood burning stoves bad for the environment?

But I would love one.

2.2k for an inset earlier this year.