Wood burner flue TIPS

muckybutt

Cliecost wrote: »

I didn't come on here asking 'can anyone tell me to get a professional in'

I know what I'm doing

So you come on asking for help and yet you know it all ? ? ? ? and then you have a go at folk that do comment and advise to get a professional fitter in ? .... ok fair enough... if it goes pete tong and it can't be properly maintained or the flue rots because it's been incorrectly installed then don't come asking for advice Mr knowitall

BuildingFife

a liner top to bottom & stove connected to the bottom I would say ye, would be diy-able from reading up.

your's is NOT a straight forward installation, and requires alot more than you seem to think.

Cliecost

BuildingFife wrote: »

a liner top to bottom & stove connected to the bottom I would say ye, would be diy-able from reading up.

your's is NOT a straight forward installation, and requires a lot more than you seem to think.

I know this is not straightforward, hence asking for tips. I've read all the information available and I have completed, to a high grade, more strenuous tasks than putting in a wood burner!

muckybutt wrote: »

So you come on asking for help and yet you know it all ? ? ? ? and then you have a go at folk that do comment and advise to get a professional fitter in ? .... ok fair enough... if it goes pete tong and it can't be properly maintained or the flue rots because it's been incorrectly installed then don't come asking for advice Mr knowitall

I came asking for TIPS, not help.

I didn't ask for directions to the nearest professional.

I have read all the guides, seen the installs and asked the experts.

Some people on here have given me tips and I am grateful but I do know what I am doing and it will not go wrong. As I have said before, it's only a wood burner, I have done harder things!

This might be a DIY section but I am not just some simple know nothing idiot.

BuildingFife

all I'm going to say is, since you basically making out as if we are stupid, I'v spoke to various builders locally, regarding this, whom have 20+ years experience each, have said a wood burner installation of this calibre they would sub contract to someone with fireplace fitting experience as their are so many factors involved that the normal builder would miss, never mind a DIY person.

Doing this DIY is just risking lifes that do not need to be risked.

Just my opinion & theirs.

Cliecost

BuildingFife wrote: »

all I'm going to say is, since you basically making out as if we are stupid, I'v spoke to various builders locally, regarding this, whom have 20+ years experience each, have said a wood burner installation of this calibre they would sub contract to someone with fireplace fitting experience as their are so many factors involved that the normal builder would miss, never mind a DIY person.

Doing this DIY is just risking lifes that do not need to be risked.

Just my opinion & theirs.

Point out where I made you look stupid.

Cliecost

BuildingFife wrote: »

all I'm going to say is, since you basically making out as if we are stupid, I'v spoke to various builders locally, regarding this, whom have 20+ years experience each, have said a wood burner installation of this calibre they would sub contract to someone with fireplace fitting experience as their are so many factors involved that the normal builder would miss, never mind a DIY person.

Doing this DIY is just risking lifes that do not need to be risked.

Just my opinion & theirs.

If it's sooo hard then why does this professional say otherwise???

Cliecost

I'm guessing by the responses from most of you that if I of come on here 2 years ago and said 'I'm about to brick up an opening in a load bearing wall and then put a double door walkthrough into the same load bearing wall you would have all told me that I would need a professional to do the calculations of footprint, lintel strength and width allowance...

I did it by myself, it worked perfectly, no cracks, no subsidence and I even plastered it perfectly. Saved well over a grand.

Cliecost

BuildingFife wrote: »

I'v spoke to various builders locally, regarding this, whom have 20+ years experience each

Shock, horror. A person whose whole existence relies on people being too scared to do it themselves says I shouldn't do it?!!! :shocked: :rotfl:

BuildingFife

It's nothing to do with being to scared it's to do with if you end up with a chimney fire, especially when you have a flue externally you could set everything and anything that it may be able to reach on fire, and if you are not fussed about that, then so be it, but I will add, very soon this will not be signed off, as you are required to be Hetas registered to sign of a solid fuel installation.

In the long run we could be saving you money, you could go, install all this to what you find a competent level, go to sell the house, and it hasn't been signed off, a hetas registered installer comes in & says, all this needs removed and done this way.

You'd deserve every bit of it, for giving the competent people jip for advising you that this really isn't a DIY installation.

Cliecost

BuildingFife wrote: »

It's nothing to do with being to scared it's to do with if you end up with a chimney fire, especially when you have a flue externally you could set everything and anything that it may be able to reach on fire, and if you are not fussed about that, then so be it, but I will add, very soon this will not be signed off, as you are required to be Hetas registered to sign of a solid fuel installation.

In the long run we could be saving you money, you could go, install all this to what you find a competent level, go to sell the house, and it hasn't been signed off, a hetas registered installer comes in & says, all this needs removed and done this way.

You'd deserve every bit of it, for giving the competent people jip for advising you that this really isn't a DIY installation.

Every part of what you have said is wrong.

• 1st, I've been in touch with the heating engineer who made the site and he said I will be fine.

• 2nd, it's a double walled insulated chimney and they are much safer than internal, so it shows how much you know of this subject to suggest it could set on fire!

• 3rd, building control sign off on this, not a HEATAS engineer. HEATAS engineers don't sign things off as they are trusted to be fully trained.
  
  I pay building control to come out, give suggestions and then they sign off on it at the end.

• 4th, what a 5hitty thing to say to someone who only came on here for tips.
  
  For all you know if am fully capable to do this, having done MANY other things that most people would be scared of without pro help.

To suggest I and anyone else in this home deserve to be burnt alive or die from carbon monoxide poisoning is a horrible thing to say and I certainly hope you get hit by a bus as soon as possible.

Also, it's gyp...