Certificate for woodburning

easilydistracted

Hello all. Please help. We just bought our first house and lucky for us it has the set up for a wood burner in place. Chimney sweep swept it all out and it appears sound. However there is no certificate we can source. Will many HETAS engineers sign off other people's work if we get a burner and pay them to install and any extra charge for sign off. If not I understand we need building control, but I'm not sure they'll agree if its already complete? How am I best to start? We are of to the stove shop who hopefully will point us in the right direction but obviously want to sell the burner. How much are we looking at rough cost? Thanks for any help

muckybutt

Congrats on getting your first house :T

Right then, you say set up for a stove ? do you mean there is a stove already there ?

Hetas fitters generally won't sign off anything they didn't fit so you would have to go the council route to get it signed off.

SG27

Our house had a stove already there when we bought it. We have no documentation either. Chimney sweep said it looked good. I assume it's been there for years.

J_B

Why do you need a certificate???

Gloomendoom

SG27 wrote: »

Our house had a stove already there when we bought it. We have no documentation either. Chimney sweep said it looked good. I assume it's been there for years.

Same here. The fireplaces have no certification either.

SG27

I suppose if it was installed recently it would need building egs sign off? Like CO detector and that stupid vent they make you put in for anything over 5KW.

Greenfires

Maybe you could explain what you meant by saying "the set up for a stove is in place" - if we know what you're getting at we'd probably be able to offer better advice than if we're just guessing.

ihatemyhouse

BC wanted £180.00 to sign off a log burner, I wanted to fit, I tried getting it fitted by HETAS engineer, but the cheapest quote I got was £1300 just to fit the flue, as I had the stuff

if it has been sweeped then should be ok, most certificates arnt worth anything any way, like mots, as all they say is it was fine when I left

Ectophile

The point of the certificate is that it's something you can hand to your solicitor when you come to sell the house.

Because if you don't have one, you can pretty much guarantee that the buyer's solicitor will ask why there isn't one. That will then lead to delays and more stress when it comes to selling the house.

highrisklowreturn

Ectophile wrote: »

The point of the certificate is that it's something you can hand to your solicitor when you come to sell the house.

Because if you don't have one, you can pretty much guarantee that the buyer's solicitor will ask why there isn't one. That will then lead to delays and more stress when it comes to selling the house.

No it won't. How many cases can you refer to where this has been the case and where solicitors have spent days, weeks, years, wondering if the little iron box in the corner has a paper certificate from a left winger down town to say it's good to go? None? Thought so.

highrisklowreturn

J_B wrote: »

Why do you need a certificate???

To light the stove with.