Anyone had a woodburner installed?

[blackmilkofdaybreak]

I would love to have a woodburner installed in our house (Edwardian, brick built, massive chimney). I have researched the various options and I will be getting one approved for smoke control areas (we live in one).

The various stove companies seem to gloss over the fact that you have to have the chimney lined and that this involves a massive lorry with a concrete pump to fill your chimney with crud - at least this is what I've gathered so far. Can anyone give me any guidance on this process? Have you had it done? I'm not keen on filling the chimney with concrete, it's a beautiful house and I'm quite prissy about it but do want a woodburner

Is it vastly expensive? We don't really want to spend more than a thousand for chimney + stove if poss. Otherwise it will just be back to the open fire and 80% of the heat going up the chimney.

We had a wood burner installed last year in a 1900 brick built house. Not in a smoke controlled zone so not sure what impact that has. The liner is a metal tube that goes up the chimney, no concrete, just a few big bags of vermiculte type substance to insulate the chimney. This site has lots of info of different methods of insulating the liner.

The cost of the liner including insulation alone was about £1,000 so you may want to look at your budget again. After much haggling and getting alternative prices, we got ours fully installed (including opening the fireplace) for just under £2,800. The original price of stove was about £1,000 and first estimate was £3,500 - I was horrified at the cost of "all the other stuff".

That all said, we love it!!

We've got a multi-fuel stove in our house (1930s semi). We bought the stove as ex-display on ebay for about £500 - it's quite a powerful one and heats the dining room & kitchen very well and could heat a larger area. Can't remember the capacity of it exactly but would certainly be powerful enough to heat a large room in an Edwardian house. It's a Stovax one. The ebay seller sells them regularly in different sizes and finishes, but can't remember the name of the seller. They were a company based on the south coast somewhere.

To line the chimney was a metal liner as DeirdreB says. No concrete or anything like that. There wasn't any mess or anything. We paid about £1200 for the work I think, including the liner and I think the guy put a cowel on the chimney or something (not sure - DH sorted it). So in total just under £2k. I think you'll struggle for £1k to be honest, but it's worth spending a bit of money on as they're lovely and warm and wood is cheaper than gas!

Thanks for the help. I'm getting to understand a bit more about what a chimney liner is. It was because I saw a few picture with what looked like a concrete pump going down a chimney that I panicked.

I think our main cost will be scaffolding as we won't be able to do it without - you are right, 1000 is probably not enough.

We have one - cost around £2500 in total (about £500 for the stove itself). We are finding that wood is expensive to buy though and we are in a rural location. £45 a load, and a load doesnt last us long at all.