Wood burner - no chimney ?

Ebe_Scrooge

We're in a village with no mains gas, everyone has oil heating which is getting pretty expensive. I've been toying with the idea of getting a wood-burning stove / fire installed - I'm friendly with a couple of local farmers, so could get hold of free logs - free heating, yee-hay !

Only problem is, our house is quite modern and has no chimney. There is an "outside" wall in the lounge which would do nicely to accomodate a stove. Question - would we have to have a whole chimney built, or can it be done with a steel flue just going through the wall, the same as a boiler ? Sorry if this is a daft question, I just wondered whether it's even worth looking around at prices, as I imagine building a chimney ain't going to be cheap :-)

Ebe_Scrooge

Thanks for the reply, sounds like it's possible to do what I want, then. 2K is a fair outlay, but hopefully I'll be able to save a fair bit each year on oil, so long-term it's probably worth finding out some more about it. Especially if this winter is going to be anything like last winter - we had some days when it never went above -12 at midday, and was down to -24 one night ! Our house, being modern, is pretty well insulated, but even so the poor old boiler was working overtime ! Thanks for the information.

suki1964

We have the same - twin wall stainless steel fuel

Dont forget - you being in Scotland you are ruled by the building regs - not HETAS

And yes getting a good stove will greatly reduce your oil usage. Here in NI we suffered the same temps and a bucket of coal a day kept us toastie

rendor

In the same position as you - live in a fairly new house with no chimney. We also have a stainless steel twinwall flue. We didn't put ours through the outside wall though. It goes straight up from the stove through the ceiling - through the upstairs bedroom (where it is boxed in) through the attic and out through the roof.
Our neighbours also had the same thing done (which is what persuaded us to do it)
It wasn't cheap - about £2k but it was done properly by a HETAS approved installer. It has made the house much warmer - the flue acts as a vertical radiator. We did lose some space in the bedroom - but not that much.
Another neighbour has now put one in - and this time he did go out through the outside wall. This meant that he had to have some bends in his flue and this makes it more expensive.
Our LPG bill has dropped considerably and we enjoy our walks so much more as we always come back with the odd bit of wood. We haven't regretted it at all.

martinthebandit

jeepjunkie wrote: »

Hello,

What you are proposing is what we did last year.

What was required was an external twin wall stainless steel flue.
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We did the same, although as ours is a bungalow we ran ours up the inside and out through the roof, total costs fully installed including the multifuel wood burner was also 2k

paidinchickens

The only outside wall I have to the front room has a window and no room for a woodburner. The only place i could fit one would be on a wall that would have to run under the stairs then out, is this possible????

martinthebandit

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Thanks for the reply, sounds like it's possible to do what I want, then. 2K is a fair outlay, but hopefully I'll be able to save a fair bit each year on oil, so long-term it's probably worth finding out some more about it. Especially if this winter is going to be anything like last winter - we had some days when it never went above -12 at midday, and was down to -24 one night ! Our house, being modern, is pretty well insulated, but even so the poor old boiler was working overtime ! Thanks for the information.

I remember looking at our weather station thing where it shows both inside and outside temps, it was -10 outside and plus 24 inside.

Mind you it made it very difficult to get the mojo together and actually go outside and do anything

paidinchickens wrote: »

The only outside wall I have to the front room has a window and no room for a woodburner. The only place i could fit one would be on a wall that would have to run under the stairs then out, is this possible????

anything is possible, your best bet is to get someone in to give you a quote and go from there