Do you need a chimney for a wood burning stove?

Hi,

We are house hunting and would love a wood burning stove. The houses we like are more modern and do not have chimneys. Is it possible to have a wood burning stove without a chimney? And if so how?

Thanks,

Jo
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  • mildred1978
    mildred1978 Posts: 3,367 Forumite
    jojo2910 wrote: »
    Hi,

    We are house hunting and would love a wood burning stove. The houses we like are more modern and do not have chimneys. Is it possible to have a wood burning stove without a chimney? And if so how?

    Thanks,

    Jo

    You have to have some sort of chimney to take the smoke to the top of the roof level. With no built in chimney that means one of these. It makes your house look like a Chinese takeaway.


    stovechim2040.jpg

    Some areas of the uk have restrictions on smoke (smoke free zones) so probably worth checking you aren't in one of those!
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  • ed110220
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    You have to have some sort of chimney to take the smoke to the top of the roof level. With no built in chimney that means one of these. It makes your house look like a Chinese takeaway.


    stovechim2040.jpg

    Some areas of the uk have restrictions on smoke (smoke free zones) so probably worth checking you aren't in one of those!


    I think the house pictured above only has such a tall flue in order to take it above the level of the upper storey - if it was on the highest roof it could be normal height.

    You don't need a traditional masonry chimney in order to have a wood burner, you can just have a steel flue like that. My house has no masonry at all but it does have a cast iron flue, boxed in with dry wall work, originally for a coal stove that ran an early central heating system.
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  • Thanks both. Do you know how much it would cost to install a flue and who do you approach to put one in? We've seen a stove we like at a company that only sells them, doesn't install them and would like to know who to approach to install.
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    http://www.woodstovefitters.co.uk/communities/4/004/007/870/154/images/4549352735.jpg

    on an outside wall, it would probably look like this one.
    internally the flue be boxed in and exit near the roof apex. so a small pipe/cowl only required.
    Get some gorm.
  • ormus
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    good-installation.jpg

    another example.
    Get some gorm.
  • I have a flue that goes up inside the house, through a bedroom (in a stainless steel twin-walled sleeve), and out through the roof. I also get the benefit of heat in the bedroom as the flue gets warm (but not too hot to touch). It was installed while I was renovating the house.
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  • jojo2910 wrote: »
    Thanks both. Do you know how much it would cost to install a flue and who do you approach to put one in? We've seen a stove we like at a company that only sells them, doesn't install them and would like to know who to approach to install.

    Hi: find yourself a HETAS installer here...he/she will be able to advise after conducting a site survey. This is a useful site.

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  • jojo2910
    jojo2910 Posts: 167 Forumite
    Much appreciated all, now we know it can be done :)
  • muckybutt
    muckybutt Posts: 3,761
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    You can buy many stoves that can be used in smoke free zones on make being Clearview....expensive but the mutts nuts as far as stoves go.

    If you want any more advice pm me and i'll answer any questions you have ( i'm a chimney sweep ) theres a lot of things you have to do when you get a stove and its not always plain sailing !

    Alternatively post a new thread on the solid fuel forum and ask away.
    You may click thanks if you found my advice useful
  • prosaver
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    I have a flue that goes up inside the house, through a bedroom (in a stainless steel twin-walled sleeve), and out through the roof. I also get the benefit of heat in the bedroom as the flue gets warm (but not too hot to touch). It was installed while I was renovating the house.

    how much did it all cost to set up?
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