INSTALLATIONS
Herts Woodburners has a wealth of experience in installing a wide variety of wood burners, log burners and multi fuel stoves, in properties of varying sizes, and in a range of different rooms.
Our engineers can also install twin wall flues if you don't have a chimney!
Here's one of our recent installations from start to finish;
This is a Typical Wood Burner Installation, including opening up a fireplace, lining with white fire board, installing a slate hearth, plaster finishing the chimney breast, and installing and commissioning the stove!
Corner Fireplace. Some homes have corner fireplaces, and ask if a wood burner can be installed. The answer is YES! though the stove type depends on the width of the chimney breast.
If wide enough then a free standing stove can be installed. If the chimney breast isn't wide enough for a free standing stove we can usually fit an inset stove instead.
Pictured above is an example of a Corner Fireplace Installation with a free standing stove. The corner chimney breast was 1200mm wide. The fireplace was opened up and lined with white fireboard, taking the shape of the corner. A Herald Hawk 4 multi fuel stove was installed, with a solid oak Mantel and slate hearth.
Inset Stoves.
Some customers opt for an inset stove, either because their chimney breast isn't wide enough, or their preference is for an inset as against a freestanding stove.
Inset stoves are available with a traditional design, such as the Telford or Chevin, or more contemporary looking, such as the Di Lusso or Jetmaster.
Adjacent are pictures showing inset stoves with different installations.
Solid Oak Mantel.
The most common addition to a fireplace is an Oak Mantel. We supply and fit solid oak 6" x 6" Mantels, to fit the width of the fireplace opening.
Oak Mantels are combustible, and therefore need to be installed about 9" above the fireplace opening to meet building regulations.
Composite Mantels, which are non combustible, can be used to sit in line with the fireplace opening. We also supply and fit this type of Mantel if preferred
This is an installation in Bedfordshire of a Parkray Consort 5 Compact multi fuel stove in a Victorian cottage. The property had just been bought and was being renovated. The new home owners wanted to remove the old gas fire and 70's fireplace, open up the adjacent fireplace and create a log store. A quarry tile hearth was built for the stove, and slate tiles used as the base of the log store. Works included opening up the bricked up fireplace, installing the stove and hearth, creating a log store in the adjacent fireplace, plaster finishing the chimney breast and fitting a solid oak mantle.
Brick Slip Installation.
If a customer requires a brick finish rather than fire board, but their fireplace brickwork isn't suitable, then an alternative is to use Brick Slips.
These are 20mm thick brick faces, tiled onto the back and sides of the fireplace opening, and mortar pointed. A perfect brick finish!
This customer wanted to remove an old gas fire, which was raised off the floor, and have a brick finish. In opening up the fireplace you are left with a lot of cut bricks, so they opted for a brick slip finish. The fireplace was lowered to floor level, widened to take a free standing stove, brick slips fitted, and a honed black slate hearth installed. The stove is an Avalon Compact 5 wood burning stove with black handles.
Double Sided Stoves
Several of our customers have either had a double sided fireplace, or their fireplace was on an internal wall, allowing it to be opened up both sides to take a double sided stove.
Hunter Stoves manufacture one of the first ever DEFRA approved double sided stoves, with the Avalon 4 Double Sided, and the contemporary Aspect 4 Double Sided stove.
The stoves come is either single depth or double depth options, depending on the dimensions of the fireplace.
Herts Woodburners can provide all associated building works in opening up the fireplace, as well as supplying and installing these stoves.
Chimney Pot. If you have had a gas fire or back boiler in your fireplace, you may have a gas terminal rather than a chimney pot on top of your chimney. You may also have a metal gas liner.
If this is the case we chop out the gas terminal, remove the gas liner, and install a chimney pot. This is required because the cowl which is connected to the stove liner, has to sit on a pot.
We can also provide chimney caps for any redundant fireplaces, to stop rain accessing the chimney flue, and causing damp problems.
No Chimney - No Problem!
For customers who don't have a chimney we supply and install a
Twin Wall Installation. The flue is insulated, and therefore doesn't need a chimney.
The stove is dependant upon the construction of the walls in the property. Most installations are in modern houses, with plasterboard lined walls. Plasterboard is a combustible material, so in these instances we use stoves designed for use outside a brick fireplace, such as a Di Lusso or Termatech stove.
If the walls are hard plastered then more traditional stoves can be used.
Here are some examples of
Twin Wall Installations. The Flue can either go through an external wall and up the side of the house, or through the ceiling and through the roof to the outside. Either way works perfectly well!
The stove needs to sit on a hearth which can be slate or another stone type, or specially tempered glass.
Pictured left are images of typical twin wall installation we have undertaken for our customers! They include a variety of traditional stoves against plastered walls and insulated stoves against plasterboard walls.
The flue has to terminate at least 4.5 metres above the stove, and be at least 2.3 metres from obstructions, including the roof. A survey will determine how high the flue needs to go to meets building regulation requirements.
Herts Woodburners have completed many wood burning and multi fuel stove installations throughout Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, with many different customer requirements. Whatever your needs we provide the expertise and know-how provide the most efficient and effective stove installation.
Here's a few more examples of our installations;
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