Woodburning, Multifuel, Stoves, Stockport, Manchester, Cheshire

FIREPLACE ALTERATIONS

Most prospective customers seem to have either a bricked-up chimney breast, an
old gas fire fixed to the wall, or an old fireplace they inherited with the house
and have never really liked. In order to have a stove fitted, they my just want
something fairly simple like a plain squared-off opening and a new hearth.

Traditional fireplace shops appear not to want to get involved in this kind of
work, but provided you are buying a stove from us, we are very happy to remove
your old fireplace, open out your chimney breast, line the internal sides and rear
with fire retardant board (looks like plaster, but doesn't crack or craze with the
heat like plaster often does), make good the plaster around the new opening,
construct a new hearth of stone/tiles/etc., and match up your skirting board at the
sides. The cost will vary according to the size of opening/size of skip required to
remove the rubble/cost of hearth materials/whether a wooden beam or surround
is required/distance from our showroom, but a figure of around £795 inc.VAT
(excluding a beam or surround) is fairly typical, on top of the cost of the stove
and stove installation.

If you have no chimney at all, we can install a twinwall insulated stainless steel
flue system either up the outside of the building, or up through the building,
boxed-in upstairs, and on the ground floor either with the flue pipe on show as a
feature, or hidden inside a lightweight fireproof mock chimney breast. Prices will
vary depending on the height of the flue/flue diameter/number of bends/amount
of modification to ceiling and roof timbers/distance from showroom, but for a flue
going up through the house, boxed-in with mock chimney breast containing a
plain opening, the cost would typically be around £3000 to £3,500 inc.VAT, plus
the cost of the stove. An external chimney would be several hundred pounds
less, and could be supplied in black powder-coated finish if preferred to shiny
stainless finish.