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For some reason its a rip off industry. I once needed some rigid type for a mobile home for a wood stove £30+ per meter. I went to an engineers shop that uses round tube. Got a 2+mtr length stainless offcut for £30. Quality piece of metal.

 

Maybe the cost is to cover the exorbitant costs of type approving quality assurance etc.

The good old days of true value are gone.

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My mate has installed two Eco Angus boilers and has been recommended to use 300mm flue pipe - but the quote came in at £2500 plus vat!!! Can anybody recommend any suppliers, preferably in the north east??

 

I assume these are wood fired boilers, in that case you have to use the same diameter or larger that the pipe coming off the boiler, this is a legal requirement under the building regulations.

 

2.5k would not be to far adrift for a 150mm dia Poujoulat twin wall fully insulated system if runnging uo the side of a tallish 2 story property, unless you are flueing the boiler into an existing chimney then this is what you will need. Other brands may somewhat be cheaper but you do get what you pay for on flue systems. Looking at the size if these things I think that 150mm would be the minimum needed but I cant see anything on the Eco ANgus web site about it.

 

Dont forget that if you wish to claim RHI on the installation there are a number of hoops to be jumped through, talk to the boiler supplier. There is also a safety sign off needed.

 

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For some reason its a rip off industry. I once needed some rigid type for a mobile home for a wood stove £30+ per meter. I went to an engineers shop that uses round tube. Got a 2+mtr length stainless offcut for £30. Quality piece of metal.

 

Maybe the cost is to cover the exorbitant costs of type approving quality assurance etc.

The good old days of true value are gone.

 

I would agree that there are a lot of rip off merchants in the industry, and a huge amount on line but there are also a lot of honest traders out there giving sound advice and service, mainly small family firms.

 

Had a mate install his own stove in a farm barn using steel pipe, the pipe got so hot it set fire to his barn roof, no safety sign off so no insurance cover even from the NFU. All to save a few hundred quid, the fire cost him dearly as he has to re roof most of the barn. I had warned him about it only weeks before when I happened to be a guest there.

 

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We have a scanfield boiler and all I used on that was a 20` length of 300mm steel pipe. It was heavy wall mild steel, its been in for twenty years now and outlasted my mates fancy twin walled stuff that cost him a fortune. I will take some snaps of it. £200 from the scrap yard down the road, fabricated my own fittings from the same piece. :thumbup1:

 

Bob

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