Cost to remove gas fire and install wood burner

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I'm buying a house which used to have a coal fire (it has a chimney). There's currently an ugly gas fire there - I'd love to get rid of it and replace it with a wood burner. Assuming the chimney still works, how much do you think it will cost?

The house is from the 1960s so any suggestions on how to do it sympathetically with the house are also gratefully received!
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It will be in 4 figures. You will need a corgi person to decommission the gas fire, then a builder to rebuild/make good/plaster the hole in the chimney breast. You will probably need to install a full hearth too. A hetas engineer to line your chimney with the right flue and install the stove. Then some painting and decorating.

About 2k is my wild guess. I think we paid maybe £800 to recline the chimney and fix the brickwork around where the old fire was. Then stove was maybe £1000, install £500.

Re-line that should say!

At least 2k
wood burner 500-1000
flue liner 300
restrictor plate 150
hearth. 200
labour ????

figures very approx and also depends where you are

About £3k for the stove plus installation including removal of rubbish. Plus whatever it costs to get the gas fire disconnected. Based on recent investigation into doing the same myself.

I paid £1500 a couple of years ago to replace a gas fire with a woodburner-effect gas stove in the fireplace. So a bit more than that, given need to line chimney as well?

Mine was a package deal from a local fireplace store, so they sorted everything except painting.

We've just had quotes for this work, one was £4200 and the other was £7000!! Just waiting on 3rd quote to compare. Px

Package deals here available for approximately £2500 including all building work, lining chimney, woodburner etc. You'd need to get the gas fire removed first.

Recently paid £2300 nw England. Similar set up to yours removal of the gas fire, new flue fitted and log burner

I’d really like to do something similar, replacing our non-functioning gas fire with a gas ‘woodburner’ stove.

Did you need and building work done, we would need to reopen the fireplace and install some sort of plinth I think as the current gas fire is wall mounted? If so, did the store arrange this?

We ordered in January, waiting for stock so installed in March. 5kw kilowatt cartridge style kept outer surround and hearth. Inner surround granit. Chimney already lined so just extra insulation. £1900.

I've been told at today's price can add at least another £1k if doing it now

We were quoted around 2500 for installation of wood burner, to include opening hearth, lining flue etc etc. in Birmingham. Would have to pay extra for removal of gas fire first

We've been quoted £2,900 for the installation and then the stove will be on top of that. The one we're looking at is £2000.

Please reconsider. Wood burners are awful for air pollution both in and outside the home.

Depends on what you’re doing with the fireplace. Had ours done in the summer. Cost £4000 but that included knocking out the fireplace and lining it with brick slips. Would have been £2000 if we’d just done straight swap of gas fire for stove.

Not the new ones which are so efficient. Our old one at last house on the other hand freestanding was a dirty beast

Following and does anyone know if you can have a tv on the wall above a wood burner?

We paid £4.2k for everything. The guys doing the installation had the qualifications to cap off the gas fire in order to remove it so we didn't need to do that separately in advance. They fitted a new hearth - ours is big so was nearly double their usual charge - and refitted the our original period fire surround.

Bear in mind you may need to pay for scaffolding or hire of a scaffolding tower for the flue liner and cowl installation. We didn't because we already had scaffolding up for some roof work.

I think altogether it was about £4k for gas engineer to disconnect remove fire, Labour to prep chimney, gas fire, tiling, hearth, chimney lining etc.

Oh yes - the fireplace bricks were re-pointed and slate slips fitted around the opening. We have a multifuel burner so that was a couple of hundred more than the woodburning only version.

2 years ago we bought a house and the existing log Burner was condemned by the chimney sweep. Wrong burner for the space and the chimney was not lined.

we paid 2k for a new stove, new hearth stone, enlargement of the fireplace, and lining of the chimney.

Just checked our stove out from a supplier, they won't be in for another 3/4 months. Production issues

Ours was 3k ish. Prob get cheaper

This. Ours also gave me a terrible headache. Severely regret getting it and it was unused for years until we sold .