Fitting a multi-fuel stove?

drjunk

Hi. I'm planning to fit a stove in my living room, and I want to maximize heat throughout the house. So I want the flue to pass through the ceiling into the upstairs bedroom were it will have a 45 deg turn, couple of feet short of the bedroom ceiling, into the old chimney. I don't want the bedroom section of the flue insulated so I can benefit from the heat as much as possible. Can I just fit a piece of insulated flue pipe were it passed through the ceiling, then return to single wall pipe once in the bedroom? If that is acceptable, can you give me an idea what fittings I need?

DaftyDuck

The main fitting you require is a HETAS installer.

There are one or two{!} problems with your suggestion which would render it potentially dangerous and certainly unviable.

drjunk

DaftyDuck wrote: »

The main fitting you require is a HETAS installer.

There are one or two{!} problems with your suggestion which would render it potentially dangerous and certainly unviable.

I don't understand why there would be a problem having a single wall pipe that's further away from the stove than the single wall pipe that's connected to the stove.

FreeBear

You will not be allowed to install a single wall flue through the bedroom - If someone were to touch it, they would suffer severe burns.

If you have an existing chimney breast running the full hight of the house, simply fit a flue liner - You will get a significant amount of heat coming off the liner and in to the brickwork upstairs.

If I run my stove for any length of time, the chimney breast in the bedroom measures a quite comfortable 25°C - This heat is retained by the mass of bricks and radiates out overnight even when the fire downstairs has gone out.

If you really want heat ducted up from the fire downstairs, have a look at the Stovax Riva range - Most of them have spigots to allow hot air to be ducted to other rooms. The other option is to get a stove with a back boiler and run a couple of radiators upstairs.

There is another option - Use a heat recovery system on the flue and duct warm air from that. But I've not seen a suitable unit on the UK market that would be easy to install.