Open Fire to Wood Burner - How Much?

anotheruser

I know this is going to vary massively but how much did you pay for a wood burner installation?

Davesnave

£3k approx on a bungalow. I prepared the 'hole,' measured-up, sourced the hearth and fitted it. Stove co did the rest.

About £1000 for the stove
Around £1k for the steel box it went into, the flue, pot and cowl.
Around £1k for the made to measure limestone fireplace and slate hearth.

This is the stove. Highly recommend it....price has probably gone up, or maybe I got a deal.

https://woodwarmstoves.co.uk/stoves/phoenix/phoenix-firegem-5kw


I get free wood. Otherwise, I'd go with a gas model! Had both.

phoebe1989seb

Free wood here too.

We paid about £6500 in the Spring for - two stoves, flues, installation, slate hearths and scaffolding.

DH did all the prep/plastering/fitting surround (to one) etc.

We have a Dovre Vintage 50 (got it for a great price as it was ex display ) and a Charnwood C7 (we actually chose a multi fuel) and love them both.

Heedtheadvice

Pure straightforward supply and install in existing fireplace/open fire flue ten years ago under £2k for a Clearview. Works wonderfully well but prices must have rocketed! Refurbished fireplace and installed slate hearth myself so that would be extra.

antilles

We paid £2100 in total in January this year. 3 bed detached house in the the North West area. We had a Hunter Herald 5 installed - we sourced this ourselves from the internet and the installer just fitted it for us - the £2100 includes the cost of the buying the stove.

Reason we sourced the stove ourselves was that we pretty much found that many installers were just ordering the stoves from the internet and then adding on a huge cut. So we saved a lot of money by sourcing ourselves.

Install included:
- Removal of old gas fire and capping off of gas
- Removal of old fireplace and hearth
- Installation of fireplace lintel (opening had to be increased in height to accommodate the stove)
- Installation of stove, fireplace lining, and chimney liner/pipe
- Installation of chimney pot
- Installation of oak beam
- Installation of Indian stone hearth
- Replastering/making good
- Disposal of all waste (some installers expected us to dump the rubbish ourselves - so beware and check this is included!)
- HETAS certificate

All we did was paint when everything was dry.

We shopped around quite a bit and we found that prices varied dramatically, we had a few companies that just came up with wacky prices without any breakdown. In the end we opted for an installer who gave us a detailed breakdown of costs. We found there were a lot of companies out there who just charge a fixed price (lots of them on Facebook) and would actually give you a price over the phone without evening coming out to look at the job - we avoided using any of these.

spo2

£3k
Included a MORSØ S11-40 stove, chimney liner, hearth, building control, carbon monoxide monitor and all work

Grenage

One 'can' do the work and get it signed off, but there's some reading to do. The main effort for us would be dropping a flu down the chimney and routing the air intake under the floor.


If you've got a decent fireplace and there are no complications then I can't see it costing more than 3k.

keith969

Paid about £2.5K 9 years ago, this included:
- removing old cast iron fireplace
- opening up brickwork
- installing s/s flue liner, cowl etc.
- fitting granite hearth
- supplying and fitting woodburner

Not cheap but worth every penny on cold dark winter evenings - have it on most nights from November to March.

TamsinC

stove is costing us £1.2K, installation [flue, liner, chimney 'stuff', HETAS cert etc] £1K, work on the chimney, revealing old fireplace, register plate, and safety work up the chimney - £1.75K. Still work to do though - need to lime point the stone, re-lay the hearth [which will be tied in with limecreting the floor and putting in flags] etc, BUT some of that we can do and the room really is a work in progress etc. I imagine that it will total around £5K.