Certificate for woodburning

Swipe

If you come to sell and you have no certificate, disconnect the stove, seal the flue pipe and job done. Then you can either leave the stove for the new owners or take it with you (which is what I did when I moved, just leaving an open fire grate)

Greenfires

Once again highrisk shows he knows best. You don't need a certificate, you don't need to follow building regs, you should use petcoke and housecoal in your stove blah blah blah.

Is there not another forum you could go and join?

easilydistracted

Hi all, what I meant is all the plates, flexible steel liner, hearth etc is in but no stove. Chimney sweep thought it seemed ok but no smoke test and he is not Hetas chimney sweep. Subsequently chimney sweep has said he cant guarantee how long it will last and hetas may be reluctant to fit to existing flu. We have now bought 5kw stove and hetas have agreed to fit in to existing set up and sign off based on chimney sweep cert. Cost will be £200 compared to £600 for new liner and install. Would people go with the 1st option? (our area is cheap for this). Thanks for the help so far I want it signed off for safety, not to invalidate insurance and because it's a requirement

Swipe

1st option

easilydistracted

Hmm now looked at the chimney sweep certificate and it says that the liner may have had it's lifespan reduced due to heavy deposits and sweep of the view it never been swept before. I think it was put in quite recently ie in last few years. The neighbours are friendly and will be able to let us know when it was originally done. Wonder if this will effect hetas view?

John_Pierpoint

SG27 wrote: »

.......... that stupid vent they make you put in for anything over 5KW.

You can fit a room sealed log burner with a direct feed of air from outside.

That should give you a better result on your EPC too, provided the assessor recognises what has been done knows [That is why you see so many houses being built with fake glass fibre chimneys.]