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It is a little over the odds but not bad. We charge £35+vat. Down south they charge around £45. By the time you've added vat your not a million miles away from £60. Although baring in mind we are around 2 weeks away from Christmas I think it's a pretty good price. I'd not drive 40 mins at this time of year for anything less. 40 mins there, 40 back, 20 mins to sweep the flue..............your heading into 2 hours. Less fuel. I don't think it's too bad. Is he vat registered as if he is he'll only be earning around £45 for nearly 2 hours work.
I'm not NACS, I'm HETAS which is way better than NACS. We install stoves so who better to sweep it!0 -
crphillips wrote: »It is a little over the odds but not bad. We charge £35+vat. Down south they charge around £45.
£35 in Kent and Sussex.
Last time I looked that was 'down South'.0 -
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25 per chimney in Gloucestershire.0
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Providing the clay liner is ok then there is no need or requirement for the chimney to be lined.
However there is a building regs requirement to ensure you leave maintenance access for sweeping, either through the stove or via a soot box fitted into the chimney breast.
Although clay liners don't always need lining they do ofton fracture with the thermal shock, you may also have a problem with condensation, as the hot flue gas from the fire coming from a 5-6" flue pipe to a 9" cold ceramic quickly looses it's upward flow speed as the gas rapidly cools causing more condensation. we advise our customers to go with a liner, although happy to install without. Lining a clay liner is really easy to do as there the perfect shape for the round flexi and don't take up a great deal of insulation either! you are going to pay a premium for this type of work leading up to christmass - supply and demand and all that, have a fire installed in the summer months when allot of installers are twiddling there thumbs i'm sure you'll get the same job done allot cheaper.0 -
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Hubby just climbs out, disconnects each section and cleans it out 0 -
Clay liners really arent suitable for wood burners. And apart from the problems mentioned above, the number of times we have found them installed upside down! is amazing. HETAS was suggesting a year or so back that they will be phased out. We would not connect to them.0
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crphillips wrote: »Far from ideal method of sweeping. Not to mention not legal.
Well if you dont tell - I wont either. ok???
Just a thought - where is this law?? I cant find it anywhere
And what is the penalty??
I mean its our roof, our land, our chimney
Had to climb out there to fit the thing, cant see where as its illegal to do that - so how can it be illegal to dismantle it????0 -
The reason being, in theory, every time it is re-connected it needs signing off again. Just don't mention it to your insurance company. If you did have a chimney fire though you'd still need the receipt/certificate as proof that it had been swept by a professional sweep otherwise there's a risk the insurance might not pay out in the event of any damage / house burning down.0
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