Cost for lining 2 chimneys - excessive?

katharine117

Hi,
We live in an edwardian semi and I've just had our chimneys swept and smoke tested prior to installing 2 fireplaces (one gas fire, one solid fuel).
During the smoke test, the smoke was coming into the loft and was also coming out of all four chimney pots (2 pots are for the front and back rooms dowstairs, two are for the bedrooms above them).

To rectify the installer has said it will need two chimney liners inserting (one for each fire). To install, it will need scaffolding up to the chimneys (which I can appreciate given how high they are). They will then need to remove the pots and top course of bricks to insert the liners (and possibly remove bricks in loft to get access to guide liners through the chimney). The top of the chimney then needs to be re-built and have some re-pointing done.

The price they've quoted is £2,500 which seems a lot of money. I appreciate that the scaffolding is £600 approx of that and they've said each liner (one 7" and one 8") is approx £600 each as well.
Does this sound about right?

Ideally I would like to get a few more quotes and I will if they are way off the mark, but if we don't get them installed shortly it will put back other work in the house we've got booked in.

Thanks in advance!

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If you don't get any replies try <http://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk&gt; I'm just Jo Public not an engineer & I've had lots of help from this website forum.

Hope that helps. I've been down the flue liner route lately but not such a major job in my house.