Stove installation in Washington, with or without a chimney. Stove installation in Washington is mostly a question of what the house was built with. Stone cottages in the old village have proper chimneys. A lot of the new town districts were built without one, or with a flue meant for a gas fire. We fit wood burning and multi-fuel stoves in both.
Jobs from across Tyne and Wear and Wearside, all surveyed, installed, commissioned and certified by our own engineers.
Thirty years of working here means we usually know what a property needs before we arrive. The survey confirms it.
Washington Village, Fatfield and Harraton have the older property, stone cottages and terraces with real chimney breasts. These are usually lining jobs, and the chambers often have enough character to leave the brickwork showing. Parts of the old village sit in a conservation area, which matters if a job needs anything new on the outside of the building, so we check before we design it.
Most of Washington was built as a new town from the 1960s onwards, district by district, from Concord and Sulgrave to Albany, Glebe and Oxclose. Plenty of those houses were built without a chimney at all. Others have a flue behind the old gas fire made of precast concrete blocks, which was designed for gas and is the wrong size and construction for a wood burner. In both cases the answer is a twin wall flue system, routed up through the house or up an outside wall.
The newer estates at Rickleton, Barmston and Teal Farm are much the same story, with no stack and modern, airtight construction. That changes the ventilation a stove needs as well as the flue, and it is one of the reasons we size the stove to the room rather than the brochure. Our guide to choosing a log burner explains how.
The same services wherever you are, all carried out by our own HETAS registered engineers with no subcontractors involved.
One workshop, one team, and one place you can come and see the stoves before you decide anything.
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Free parking on site, fifteen minutes up the A194 from Washington. Bring the width and depth of your chimney breast, or a photo of the wall if you have no chimney, and we can tell you there and then what will suit it.
The things people in Washington ask us most often before booking a survey.
Yes. Most new town houses in Washington have no stack, and the answer is a twin wall insulated flue. It runs from the stove up through the ceilings and out of the roof, or up an outside wall, and the route is designed around your layout at the survey.
Not usually. Many new town houses have precast concrete flue blocks built for a gas fire. They are the wrong size and construction for a wood burner, so we would install a twin wall system instead. We confirm exactly what you have at the survey.
Usually not. A flue on the rear or side of an ordinary house is normally permitted development, as long as it does not rise more than a metre above the highest part of the roof. Listed buildings and front elevations in conservation areas are different, so on older property in Washington Village we check first.
Yes. The older stone property in Washington Village, Fatfield and Harraton usually has a proper chimney breast, so it is a lining job. See our log burner installation page for prices, from £2,199 fully installed where the chamber is already the right size.
About fifteen minutes away in Hebburn. We cover every district of Washington, along with Penshaw, Springwell and the rest of Sunderland.
From £2,199 fully installed where the chamber is already the right size and there is a serviceable chimney. Most Washington homes need a twin wall flue, which is priced after a free survey once we have seen the route.
Not quite the right area? These are the places closest to Washington that we work in.
What we would tell you in the showroom about stove installation in Washington, from twin wall flues to costs, rules and how the day runs.
We are fifteen minutes away and charge the same here as anywhere else, with every price fixed in writing after a free survey. Where the opening is already the right size and there is a serviceable chimney, a stove, hearth, beam and liner is £2,199 fully installed.
Where the chimney breast needs opening up, our fixed price stove packages cover the building works, hearth, chamber, beam, liner, cowl, carbon monoxide alarm and certification. Because so much of Washington has no chimney, most stove installation in Washington involves a twin wall flue, which is priced individually once we have seen the route through the house.
A twin wall flue is an insulated stainless steel chimney, built in sections. It can run up through the ceilings and out through the roof, or out through the wall and up the outside of the house. In a new town house the internal route usually passes through a bedroom or cupboard above, where it is boxed in to the correct clearances.
The external route avoids work upstairs but is more visible from outside. Every stove installation in Washington we design weighs both options against your layout, and we show you where each would run before you decide. Where a bedroom cupboard can take the boxing, the internal route is usually the neatest finish for stove installation in Washington new town houses.
Many 1960s and 1970s houses have a narrow flue built from precast concrete blocks inside the wall, designed for a gas fire. It looks like a chimney from inside the room, but it is the wrong size and construction for a wood burner and cannot be lined to take one. If yours has one, stove installation in Washington means a twin wall system instead. We confirm exactly what you have at the survey.
Much of urban Tyne and Wear and Wearside is covered by smoke control orders. You can still have a stove, as long as it is an exempt appliance or you burn authorised fuel, and every stove we supply is suitable. The GOV.UK smoke control rules explain the detail.
Every stove installation in Washington we carry out is self-certified under Building Regulations, because we are HETAS registered, and the council is notified for you. A twin wall flue on the rear or side of an ordinary house is normally permitted development if it rises no more than a metre above the highest part of the roof. The Planning Portal explains the general rules, and we check conservation areas such as the old village first.
Most installations are a single day, including many twin wall jobs. Longer internal routes through two floors can take two. A typical day runs like this:
New town and newer estate houses hold heat well, so they often need less output than people expect, usually three to five kilowatts for a living room. Room volume divided by fourteen gives a rough figure. In airtight modern houses the ventilation needs checking too, which we do at the survey.
Oversizing is the mistake to avoid. A stove run low in a warm house smoulders and tars the flue. Sizing it properly is part of every stove installation in Washington we quote, and our guide to choosing the right log burner explains how.
Points that come up on most Washington jobs, especially where there is no chimney.
Stove installation in Washington covers every district for us: Concord, Sulgrave, Albany, Glebe, Oxclose, Lambton, Ayton, Biddick, Fatfield, Harraton, Rickleton, Barmston, Columbia, Donwell, Usworth and the old village, plus Penshaw and Springwell just outside. The same fixed prices apply wherever you are.
Because most of the districts were built in the same era, we usually have a good idea what a house will need before we arrive. A lot of stove installation in Washington follows the same pattern: a gas fire on a precast flue to remove, a twin wall route to design and a new hearth to lay. The survey confirms the details, and the price comes in writing.
Without a chimney breast you have more freedom. The stove can go on an outside wall, in a corner or in the middle of an open plan room, as long as the flue route works. We will suggest the position that heats the room best and gives the neatest flue, and the survey is the time to talk it through.
A stove needs a non-combustible hearth of the right size. Where there was never a fireplace, we lay one, in sandstone as standard or riven slate as an upgrade. On a suspended timber floor we check what is underneath first, so the hearth is solid for the life of the stove.
The hearth also sets the look of a room that never had a fireplace. A generous sandstone hearth with a freestanding stove and a short run of black flue pipe can look as though it has always been there, even in a 1970s living room. It is worth seeing the hearth options in the Hebburn showroom before you choose, because the colour and texture change a lot once the stove is lit. Bring a photo of the room and the wall you have in mind, and we can talk it through on the spot, with no appointment needed in opening hours.
A wood burning stove burns logs only. A multi-fuel stove burns logs or approved smokeless fuel, which gives a longer, steadier burn. Our Derwent package stove is multi-fuel and the other three are wood burning. In a smoke control area both are fine with the right fuel.
The stone cottages and terraces in Washington Village, Fatfield and Harraton usually have real chimney breasts, so stove installation in Washington's older streets is a lining job much like Hebburn or Gateshead. The chamber often has enough character to leave the brickwork or stone showing.
On every stove installation in Washington we carry out, the people who arrive are our own HETAS registered engineers, the same team that surveyed the house. No subcontracted fitter and no builder you have never met.
Not every job is a new installation. These are the situations we are most often asked about.
The most common starting point we see. The gas fire needs disconnecting and capping off by a Gas Safe registered engineer, which we arrange as part of the job and list openly as an extra. The precast flue is then left out of use, and the stove goes on a new twin wall system.
It tends to surface when people sell. An installation without a HETAS certificate or Building Control sign off is a problem for a buyer's solicitor. We can survey it and tell you what would bring it up to standard, or replace it with a properly certified stove installation in Washington.
Usually wet wood, or a stove too big for the room run low. Logs should be under 20% moisture. If yours was oversized, we will tell you honestly whether a smaller appliance would fix it.
Keep the first few fires small while the paint cures, burn dry wood and have the flue swept at least once a year. You can check any installer on the HETAS register before you book, and keep the certificate from your stove installation in Washington with the house deeds.
When you are ready, book a free survey or send us a photo of the wall where you would like the stove. We will come back with a fixed price for your stove installation in Washington, in writing, with no obligation to go ahead.
Tell us a little about the room and the chimney and we will give you a fixed price in writing. We can survey in person, or remotely from photos and Google Maps. No charge and no obligation.
