How much to fit a flu liner
Hi all,
We want to replace our open fire with a wood burner. I have a second hand yeoman 4 kW burner in good condition that I want to put in.
If it was up-to me I would just put in a check plate above it and use the old chimney as is but the missus is convinced we need a liner or we will all die of carbon monoxide! So I have agreed.
Trouble is she has had two quotes so far both in the region of £1400. Does this sound right?
And if this is what it would cost to install one how hard
It took a bit of finding but here is a couple of shots, taken some 8 years ago, of a single skin 316 SS flue which had been allowed to cool the combustion gases below their dew point. the acidic conditions had created an oxygen free environment that had allowed the chromium oxide (a thin layer which protects the iron content from rusting in normal use) to be stripped and the tube then perforated. I suspect there was something other than clean wood being burnt because the stain underneath looks