For years, the Household Quotes Team has been the trusted partner for homeowners and tenants throughout the UK, ensuring they never overpay for essential home improvements. The table below breaks down the estimated supply and labour costs for the most commonly used types of chimney liners in the UK. When hiring a chimney sweep, look for someone who’s certified and insured and will provide an upfront cost estimate.

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Using a good quality stainless steel will ensure that the access soot door will not only look great but it will also offer the flexibility in the steel to ensure a perfect fit around the stove pipe to ensure everything is sealed up as it needs to be. Unfortunately, we don’t recommend you taking on the job of a chimney liner installation for yourself. They can be used by multiple types of chimneys, including wood burning stoves, open fires and multi-fuel stoves. Ensure that any installer you’re thinking of hiring has experience in chimney linings and are part of an accreditation scheme such as HETAS for proof.A soot door is fitted into a chimney breast where you have no access for sweeping or cleaning the chimney after the fireplace or stove has been installed. Or maybe its time for a renovation or spring clean, whatever you require for your fire, give us a ring or pop into our showroom for tips and advice.

Chimney Liners and Lining: Full 2023 Guide - HouseholdQuotes Chimney Liners and Lining: Full 2023 Guide - HouseholdQuotes

A chimney liner is an extremely important part of your chimney that works to improve the safety of the fireplace and your home.The liner will then be lowered into the chimney in sections that lock together to create a lining that correctly fits the entire chimney. Clearly the chimney and chimney breast has been in place all that time, though the fireplace itself, although predating our tenure, is not original - probably 1970s? Presumably you take out bricks over three courses, I'm guessing ideally at the dog-leg or at least on the non-vertical section of flue?

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The double seal refers to the fact that there is an inner door so when the outside door is removed there is another one inside. A quick way to tell if your chimney needs cleaning is to run the point of your fireplace poker along the inside of your chimney liner. The huge array of chimney systems that could have been built into your home all vary due to factors such as size and what year the build was constructed. Soot doors are a common fixture in chimneys where access to the flue is cut off once the fireplace has been installed. There are building regulations and standards in place around chimneys to protect the buildings and the residents within them; unless you have an understanding of these, as well as previous experience in installing chimney liners, we recommend you hire a qualified professional to get the job done for you.If they can provide you with references you can be sure of their ability and may even be able to see some of their previous work. Chimney flues are the inside of a chimney stack and carry out fumes and gases from the fireplace to the outside of your building. The fire certainly smokes quite badly now, and I think it's got worse with time, which would tie in with a flue being clogged by un-sweepable soot. Find out if they’ve recently had a new chimney liner put in place and if they would recommend the installer they used.