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Bought my liner off eBay. Good make and suitable for wood and/or coal.

Fitted it myself (sent my cousin on the roof as I am no good with heights)

From memory the liner was about £120 ish plus £30 ish for the fittings to hold it up there.

 

Hi PEA what happens if the house burns down are you insured you are for your sake thanks Jon

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If you pay someone to fit it, it's going to easily cost as much as a stove. Buy the flue, (double wall will protect again condensation & cold spots) and fit it yourself. If you chimney is in good nick, you could do without the liner. But the naked chimney will invariably create too much draw, leading to increased fuel consumption. In the long run, go for fuel efficiency and hence lower bills.

 

You'll still need the installation checked and ticked off by a Hetas approved person. But self installation with independent certification, will still work out cheaper than paying a pro to do everything. The flu & gubbins aren't going to be cheaper but at least you can save on labour.

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Bought my liner off eBay. Good make and suitable for wood and/or coal.

Fitted it myself (sent my cousin on the roof as I am no good with heights)

From memory the liner was about £120 ish plus £30 ish for the fittings to hold it up there.

 

 

Likewise. Bought the liner and fittings from flu direct, £40 a metre or so, roofer mate dropped it down the chimney, took photos etc and all signed off for a few hundred pounds. Can't stand all this £1000 bollocks to fit a liner. Total rip off

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Flue liners aren't cheap but they're not that difficult to fit.

I'd get a man who's registered with hetas to fit it so he can sign it off.

Because some idiot removed the chimney breast down stairs I've had to run a twin walled flue from my living room to the kitchen then into my bedroom then through the chimney breast in my room with a flue liner running down on to the twin walled flue

That only cost £1200 for parts and labour.

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Will having the same discussion at the moment.....

 

Me and my dad decided one evening that we would cut out our old fire place and guess what the liner was still installed from the old boiler!!

 

I have been told this can't be used and has to be stainless steel!!

 

A bit of magnet testing and it is stainless steel....

 

So went to the stove shop and asked the man can we use existing liner he said ohhhh no we have to fit it...

 

I wasn't too convinced so I downloaded the hetas install regulations and basically if the smoke test is acceptable it's double lined stainless steel then I think your good to go..

 

Going to get signed of by my local installer through.

 

Hetas guide lines below

 

http://www.hetas.co.uk/wp-content/mediauploads/BFCMA-General-Guidance-10-12-12.pdf

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That's what I thought, it has to be installed by a 'competent person' which includes members of some institutions like HETAS. Or am I imagining all this?

 

Hi mate so if you fitted it yourself and then you had someone come round and check it and sign off how much would this cost £200)300 if they would do thanks Jon

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Will having the same discussion at the moment.....

 

Me and my dad decided one evening that we would cut out our old fire place and guess what the liner was still installed from the old boiler!!

 

I have been told this can't be used and has to be stainless steel!!

 

A bit of magnet testing and it is stainless steel....

 

So went to the stove shop and asked the man can we use existing liner he said ohhhh no we have to fit it...

 

I wasn't too convinced so I downloaded the hetas install regulations and basically if the smoke test is acceptable it's double lined stainless steel then I think your good to go..

 

Going to get signed of by my local installer through.

 

Hetas guide lines below

 

http://www.hetas.co.uk/wp-content/mediauploads/BFCMA-General-Guidance-10-12-12.pdf

 

chances are that if it was fitted to a boiler it will be the wrong grade of liner probably single wall flexi ,this is not suitable for solid fuel, twin wall flexi liner either 316 or 904 is what you need as this is rated upto 650 degrees

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