Woodburning Stove Installation Services
We offer a comprehensive service
We'll help you to select the most appropriate kind of stove or boiler to meet your domestic or commercial requirements, carry out a Site Survey, and Assessment and provide Installation and Maintenance services to ensure that your chosen wood burning stove, multi fuel stove or woodburning boiler performs efficiently, economically and is in every way an asset to your property and a pleasure to live with.
Wood burning and multi fuels stoves from our range of both traditional and contemporary stoves are suitable for a variety of installations. It is not always necessary to have an existing fireplace or even an existing chimney for your wood burning appliance. Chimneys and hearths can also be designed, supplied and fitted by Stoveco, a HETAS Registered Installer (Click for details)
Stoveco Wood Burning Stoves is a
BPEC Approved Woody Biomass Installer (Click for details)
"I am delighted with the finish you achieved for the stove surround and have received many compliments from friends.
Please give my thanks to the guys who carried out the installation who were just great and actually managed to treat my home as I would have myself."
Dr June Gilchrist
"We were very pleased with the installation as great care was taken when removing out old fireplace & fitting the new woodburner (which was no easy task) but was done with minimum of disruption.
We would not hesitate to recommend Stoveco."
Dave & Elizabeth Francis
Chimneys
The 2002 edition of Approved Document J of The Building Regulations stipulates that any work that affects an existing chimney (ie. fitting a new stove or liner) or creating a new chimney now comes under building control.
Click here to view Document J Building Regulations
An existing chimney or a new flue or chimney installation must be given a visual inspection to check that it is in good order, clear of obstructions and is of a suitable size and type for the appliance you plan to install. It may be necessary to sweep the flue (which should always be done anyway before fitting a stove or lining a chimney) and also, if necessary, to do a smoke test to check for gas tightness.
Lining existing chimneys
Flexible chimney liner may only be used to reline existing chimneys. The chimney liner must be suitable for the application and the manufacturer's fitting instructions must be followed. A chimney liner must be installed in one continuous length with no joints within the chimney. No coring balls are to be used on any metal flue system.
If you are relining your chimney with flexible liner, pumice, or concrete liners or if you are building a new chimney (including building a new chimney using twin wall insulated flue pipe) then this is classed as "Building work" and you must notify building control before work starts. There may be local planning restrictions covering chimney work and new chimneys in your area. Such work has to be done under the guidance of a building inspector or by an installer who is a member of a "Competent Person Scheme".
New masonry chimneys should be constructed with flue liners and components suitable for the application.
We would recommend regular chimney sweeping, using appropriate sweeping brushes, at least once a year to ensure that the chimney is not blocked by chimney deposits.
Flue outlet heights
The flue gases from the stove must be able to discharge freely and not present a fire hazard, whatever the wind conditions. In order to discharge the flue gases freely you need a good draw.
To get a good draw you need to raise the flue outlet away from the roof - a surface (like a roof) creates wind eddies and slows the wind down thus reducing draw, so by raising the flue outlet you bring the top of the flue up into unimpeded air flow.
To make sure that there is no hazard the flue outlet needs to be sufficiently far away from the roof, adjacent buildings, and roof windows.
As a simple guide the horizontal distance from the top of the flue pipe to the roof should be at least 2300mm or above the ridge unless the flue termination is within 600mm horizontally of the ridge, in which case the flue should be at least 600mm above the ridge.
Stove flue sizes
The flue size (diameter or cross sectional area) must not be smaller than the size of the stove outlet.
The building regulation guidance notes state that the minimum flue size for stoves are
up to 20kW burning smokeless fuel - Minimum 125mm diameter.
up to 30kW burning any fuel - Minimum 150mm diameter.
A single skin, un-insulated flue pipe must be at least three times its diameter from combustible materials. The combustible material can be heat shielded.
There is currently no specified maximum or minimum length for a single skin flue pipe which connects a stove to a chimney. However, a single skin flue pipe may not pass through any roof space, floor or internal wall. Heat will transfer to the room from the uninsulated flue pipe but this also means that the flue gases will be colder and therefore more soot, tar, and other deposits will condense in the chimney. This increases the risk of chimney fire, although modern stoves with very efficient combustion produce relatively cold flue gases.
Ventilation for stoves
Stoves need a supply of air for combustion, and to evacuate the flue gases otherwise they will not work. Without an air supply the stove will not light and smoke may come into the house instead of being drawn up the chimney.
If your stove burns more efficiently when you open a window then you need to install ventilation. This situation is generally more likely to apply to very modern homes with sealed doors and windows. As there will be a draught from the vent to the stove it is advisable to locate the vent close to the stove; some stoves have provision for an external air supply to be directly connected to the stove.
Hearths
The stove must sit on a hearth of non-combustible material extending a minimum of 150mm (6") out from the stove at the sides and 300mm (12") in front.
If the hearth is on a combustible floor it must be at least 250mm thick or...
The hearth may be 125mm thick if there is a 50mm air gap underneath it or....
If the hearth is on a non-combustible floor (for example and concrete floor slab) then the total thickness of the hearth and of the non-combustible floor must be 250mm or...
125mm thick with a 50mm air gap underneath or....
The minimum hearth size for a freestanding stove is 840mm x 840mm, unless the stove does not heat the hearth to over 100 degrees.
In every situation, if a stove does not raise the hearth temperature to over 100 degrees centigrade then a 12mm hearth may be used.
Notice plates
Notice plates are a building regulations requirement. At some future time you may wish to make changes to the flue systems or install a new stove. You may sell your property and the new owner wish to make changes.
A notice plate must be completed and permanently posted in the building when hearths or flues have been installed. This applies to stove installation, chimney lining, hearth installation, twin wall flue pipe installation, pumice liner installation, concrete liner installation, and in many other instances.
The notice plate shows the position of the hearth and/or flue and gives essential information about the materials used such as the manufacturer and flue diameter.
The notice plate should be displayed in one of the following:
by the electricity consumer meter
by the water stop-cock
by the hearth or flue that it describes
We supply a Chimney Notice Plate when we install your stove.
Assurance
Stoveco Contracting have passed the HETAS Solid Fuel and Wood Burning Engineers Course and the BPEC Woody Biomass Heating Systems course.
These qualifications are compulsory for those installing wood burning stoves and boilers in England and Wales. However, this is not something that many solid fuel engineers in Scotland can claim to have.
Together with practical experience these certificates mean that you can have confidence in our sound knowledge of the installation and operation of wood burning stoves and heating systems ensuring that appliances are installed safely with efficiency and design also high priorities.
 BPEC Approved Woody Biomass Installer
Competencies
° Carry out feasibility studies
° Professionally advise the client
° Consider fuel type and storage options
° Design systems and installations to suit varying site circumstances
° Employ safe installation and maintenance practices for biomass appliances
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