"lesshaste" wrote in message
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L Reid wrote:
It seems that Kopex may not be a good suggestion after all. All the
advice I have got from shops and chimney specialists is that I need a
class 1 liner (which Kopex isn't) unless I buy one of the rare gas
fires
that can cope with class 2 or Kopex.



A quick trawl through the instruction for several gas fires shows
about half as being suitable for _any_ flue type.


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Class 1 liner? I had both a Stovax stove and an open gas fire fitted
last
year. Both required liners (as our chimney was breached), but were told
the
regulations had changed with respect to open gas fires so a flexible
class 2
liner was fine. This cost around £360 or so, including fitting (though
this
might have been for both of them and not just one).

If I were you I'd check out whether a class 2 liner will actually do as
this
is a lot cheaper.

HTH.


You couldn't tell me who did the work could you?

Raphael

I could but that's probably not a lot of use to you unless you live in
Edinburgh. There were two places I had quotes for getting this done, neither
of which were 'national' companies. However one was a small gas appliance
shop that also did fitting (they actually did it - a company called World of
Gas that'll pop up on Yell for edinburgh), and another was by a small
company that sweep and repair chimneys, though they only really do sweeping
now, but will fit the class 2 liners as they're not generally a lot of
hastle. I'd put 'chimney sweeps' in the yell for your area (or look in the
yellow pages) and get a couple of opinions from there.

Good luck!