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 raised hearth of stone/tiles/etc., and match up your skirting
board at the sides. The cost will vary according to the size of opening/amount of
rubble to be removed from site/cost of hearth materials/whether a wooden beam
or surround is required/distance from our showroom, but a figure of around £895
inc.VAT to open up to approx. 36"w x 36"h, (including Indian stone hearth, but
excluding a beam or surround) is fairly typical, on top of the cost of the stove and
stove installation. Larger openings will be more expensive due to the extra
rubble to remove and materials needed to finish off. Hearths flush with the floor
will also add to the cost, due to having to dig out the old hearth and reconstruct
the base, before tiling or w,h,y,

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 modific-
ation 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.

Please note that the usual twinwall flue
system we use is Midtherm HT-plus
(British Made), and the single wall matt
black enamelled flue is either Midtherm
or Brefco Supaflue (both British Made).