Wood Burners & Flues

CD · 2013-10-28T16:37:46+00:00

Not DIY as such as I won't be attempting it, but the missus wants a wood burner in the living room. It's a mid 90s house & there is a flue in there for a gas fire, but the previous occupant removed the fireplace & plasterboarded over the opening. We reinstated a fireplace, but just used an electric fire with the flame effect (rags blowing in a fan with an orange bulb). Would the existing flue be OK for a wood burner, it's a Barratt House identical to the one here which has the chimney on view. Also there's no chimney breast, does the flue go up the cavity nowadays? CD

Oct 28, 2013 61 Replies

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Peter Crosland 12 years ago

The point that I was making is that smoke alarms give no warning of high, and potentially fatal, levels of CO. Plenty of candidates for the Darwin award have perished in this way.

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Bill Wright 12 years ago

Yes, get a man in to check out her flue.

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