Wood burner flue

[Lyn Ed]

Im thinking of putting a wood burner in and i was wondering if i could get some advice, my problem is that i dont have a chimney and will have to use an outside flue, i live on quite a steep hill and next door`s house is a lot higher than mine, does the top of my flue have to be a certain height above next doors driveway, ive been told that my flue would have to go above the highest point of my roof, if thats the case it will mean a fair length of flue and putting a bend in it to divert it to the highest point of the roof, thanks for any advice.

[niftysteve]

you should be able to fit a double skin stainless steel flue up the outside of your house you may be able to find the info you need on the internet somewhere the govening body for fire installing is HETAS

 

heres a link to there page

HETAS

[davetaz]

We just had flue fitted for wood-burning Rayburn. It's all about complying with building regs and HETAS. From what I remember if the flue comes out of the roof or up the wall to within a metre of the ridge then it must extend at least a metre higher than the ridge.

Ours came out 1.5m away from ridge and so didn't need to go quite as high, but the higher it goes the better the pull and the more it will cost you (£80-£100/metre for SS double skinned).

For every bend you put in is the equivalent to losing a metre of flue in terms of the pull you get.

Also if the appliance is over a certain size (4.5kw ???) you need a straight through air vent putting in .

Best to speak to some one in building control at local authority and find a HETAS engineer so you can get a certificate of installation