Stuart Noble
wibbled on Thursday 10 December 2009 14:11


My recent experience of all this suggests you might just as well go down
the local fireplace shop and pay a silly price for the whole
installation. HETAS registered engineers are the only people allowed to
install flues, and they all seem to be owners of fireplace shops.

Our Hetas bloke wasn't. The local fireplace shop does have an association
with someone else, but he never called back, so I picked a couple of local
chaps off the Hetas site and gave the job to the one I liked.

200 quid labour, (including sticking a couple of vent caps on the open pots
on the other disused stack which for me is a ******* to get at) which I
didn't think was too bad and paled into insignificance compared to the cost
of the liner (which I checked and could have got no cheaper myself and came
in at 500 quid). He cleared up nicely and took the old gas liner away.

It's worth noting, that of course you can do the job yourself under a
Building Notice - but for a professional, they should be Hetas.

--
Tim Watts

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