Jim K wrote:
On Nov 20, 11:18 am, wrote:
We live out in the sticks and our central heating (which we rarely
turn on nowadays) runs on locally stored gas which is becoming
steadily more expensive.

We have a large multi-fuel stove which we keep alight through the
coldest weather and we have a good supply of wood for that.

We *were* thinking of adding a small solid fuel stove at the other end
of the house in the breakfast room where we do spend quite a lot of
our time but the costs are just silly - like £6000 for a fairly small
installation (it does include some hot water with the space heating,
but that's all).

eh???????

go on do tell - which small stove with optional boiler, flue and
associated "hot" water pipework = 6000?

It's for a Stovax Stockton 8HB plus, of course, the required flue etc.

We were a bit surprised by the price too! However as soon as you
start adding bits up it does start to become expensive. One could
possibly do a small, basic, space heat only, stove for £2000 or so
including flue but as soon as you start adding other requirements the
price builds up.


I can only presume that includes the fat ****-take Xmas bonus for the
bent HETAS engineer?

Possibly.


Did you get more than one quote? have you priced it up for DIYing it?

It's all very well getting more than one quote but there aren't *that*
many HETAS approved installers around here who are willing to quote.
The chap who installed our other wood-burner (several years ago) isn't
'wet' approved and neither are several of the others we approached.

I am definitely considering DIYing it but want to look into the
alternatives before going down that route. I have *loads* of other
DIY stuff to do so any more is a bit of a pain.

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Chris Green