Jobs from the town end out to Ryton and Crawcrook. All handled in house from survey to certificate.
Thirty years of working here means we usually know what a property needs before we arrive. The survey confirms it.
The town end of Gateshead is largely Victorian terracing, tight streets and shared stacks. Shared stacks matter more than people realise, because what your neighbour has done with their flue can affect how yours draws. It is worth a proper survey rather than an assumption.
Low Fell and Whickham have a lot of larger interwar and Edwardian property with generous chimney breasts. These are usually straightforward lining jobs, but the chambers are often big enough to do something more interesting with the finish, which is where a brick slip or tiled chamber earns its money.
Out towards Ryton, Crawcrook and Rowlands Gill the property gets older and more spread out. Stone cottages with substantial breasts, and barn conversions and extensions with no stack at all. That is twin wall territory, and the route needs designing rather than guessing.
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.
Unit 8J, Victoria Road Industrial Estate,
Hebburn NE31 1UB
Unit 8J, Victoria Road Industrial Estate, Hebburn NE31 1UB
Free parking on site. Bring the width and depth of your chimney breast and a rough idea of the room size, and we can tell you there and then what will suit it.
Not quite the right area? These are the places closest to Gateshead that we work in.
What we would tell you in the showroom about stove installation in Gateshead, area by area, including costs, rules and how the day runs.
Gateshead is three or four different jobs depending on where you live. At the town end, around Bensham, Saltwell and Shipcote, it is mostly Victorian and Edwardian terracing with original chimney breasts. Those stacks are almost always sound but far too wide for a modern stove, so stove installation in Gateshead's terraced streets nearly always means a flexible liner sized to the appliance.
Low Fell and Whickham have more interwar and Edwardian semis and villas, with generous breasts and taller stacks. Again a lining job, but the bigger chambers give you more choice in how the finish looks. Out west, towards Ryton, Crawcrook and Rowlands Gill, the property gets older and more varied, with stone cottages, barn conversions and extensions that never had a chimney at all.
We charge the same in Gateshead as anywhere else we cover, and every price is fixed in writing after a free survey. Where the opening is already a suitable size and the stack is serviceable, a stove, hearth, beam and liner is £2,199 fully installed.
Where the chimney breast needs opening up, our fixed price stove packages include the building works, the hearth, the chamber finish, the beam, a 5 inch liner, cowl, carbon monoxide alarm and certification. The only extras are listed openly, and each is confirmed before anything is booked.
Twin wall flues on conversions and newer extensions are priced individually, because the route through the building decides the cost. Stove installation in Gateshead on a barn conversion is a design job as much as a fitting job, and we price it properly rather than guessing.
On a terraced street the chimney stack is usually shared with next door, with several flues side by side. What your neighbour has done with their flue can affect how yours draws. An unlined flue alongside a lined one, or a neighbour's open fire sharing a cold stack, behaves differently from a stack on its own.
That is why every stove installation in Gateshead we quote on a terrace includes a proper look at the stack, not just your fireplace. Nine times out of ten it is fine. The tenth time, knowing in advance saves an awkward conversation on the first cold evening.
Towards Ryton, Crawcrook and the Derwent valley, a lot of property is older stone with substantial chimney breasts. Opening those up is proper building work, which we do ourselves rather than leaving you to find a builder. The chamber that results is often big enough to leave the stonework showing, which is hard to beat.
Barn conversions and modern extensions usually have no usable stack. Stove installation in Gateshead's rural fringe often means a twin wall insulated flue, routed up through the building or up an outside wall. Where it goes matters for how it looks as much as how it performs, so we design the route at the survey.
Much of urban Tyne and Wear is covered by smoke control orders, and parts of Gateshead are no exception. You can still have a stove, as long as it is an exempt appliance or you burn authorised fuel. Every stove we supply is suitable, and the GOV.UK smoke control rules explain the detail.
Every stove installation in Gateshead we carry out is self-certified under Building Regulations, because we are HETAS registered, and the council is notified for you. Planning permission is not usually needed, but listed buildings and new flues on the front of buildings in conservation areas are different, and Gateshead has several conservation areas, so we check before designing an external flue.
Most installations are one day, occasionally two where the chimney needs more opening up than expected. We are around twenty minutes away in Hebburn, so the team is on site early. A typical day runs like this:
A typical terraced living room suits around three to five kilowatts. The larger through rooms at Low Fell and Whickham can need more, and above five kilowatts a permanent air vent is required, which we include in the written price where it applies. Room volume in cubic metres divided by fourteen gives a rough figure.
The commonest fault we correct is a stove that is too big for the room, run low and tarring the flue. Sizing it properly is part of every stove installation in Gateshead we quote. Our guide to choosing the right log burner explains how we work it out.
Keep the first few fires small while the paint cures, burn wood under 20% moisture, and have the chimney swept at least once a year.
You can check any installer on the HETAS register, and keep your certificate with your house deeds, because a buyer's solicitor will ask for it. If anything needs looking at after your stove installation in Gateshead, we are twenty minutes away.
Not every job is a new installation. These are the problems we are most often asked to fix, and what usually causes them.
Almost always a flue problem rather than a stove problem. An unlined or oversized flue, a cowl that does not suit the stack, or not enough air into the room. When we are called to put right an earlier stove installation in Gateshead, the fix is usually a correctly sized liner and the right cowl, not a new appliance.
It is worth ruling the flue out before spending money on a different stove, because a new appliance on the same faulty flue will usually behave exactly like the old one. A smoke test and a look at the cowl takes minutes and often answers the question on the spot.
The sign of a stove run too low, or of wood that is too wet. Logs should be under 20% moisture, and a stove should be sized so it runs properly hot. If yours was oversized for the room, we can tell you honestly whether a smaller appliance on the same liner would solve it.
More common than it should be, and it tends to surface when people sell their house. An installation without a HETAS certificate or Building Control sign off is a problem for the buyer's solicitor. We can survey it and tell you what would be needed to bring it up to standard, or replace it with a properly certified stove installation in Gateshead.
Plenty of Gateshead living rooms still have a gas fire in the opening. Where one needs disconnecting and capping off, it is listed openly as an extra and priced in writing after the survey, so the cost of your stove installation in Gateshead is clear before anything is booked.
Capping must be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and we arrange it as part of the job so you are not chasing a second trade.
Four things worth thinking about before the survey. None need deciding on the day, but they make the conversation quicker.
Not necessarily, but it is worth surveying properly. On shared stacks what happens in the neighbouring flue can affect how yours draws, and an unlined flue alongside a lined one behaves differently. We check it rather than assuming.
Yes, and we do a fair amount of it. Converted property usually has no usable stack, so it is a twin wall insulated system. On a conversion the route matters a great deal for how it looks as well as how it performs, so we design it around the building.
It gives you options. A generous chamber means you can do something more interesting with the finish, whether that is a brick slip chamber or a tiled one, rather than just a plain background. It usually still needs lining, though.
Yes. Birtley, Blaydon, Dunston, Crawcrook and Rowlands Gill are all regular work, along with the rest of the borough. We are about twenty minutes away in Hebburn.
Sometimes, particularly on taller or awkward roofs. If access needs anything beyond a standard ladder we tell you at the survey and it goes in the written price, so it is never a surprise afterwards.
From £2,199 fully installed where the chamber is already the right size and the chimney is serviceable. Where building work is needed, our fixed price packages include it. Conversions and homes with no chimney need a twin wall flue, priced after a free survey.
A wood burning stove burns logs. A multi-fuel stove burns logs or approved smokeless fuel, which gives a longer, steadier burn overnight. Our Derwent package stove is multi-fuel and the other three are wood burning. Both work in a smoke control area with the right fuel, so choose on how you want to use it.
A plain chamber is ready for you to brick, render or paint. A tiled chamber in Andalusia or Lucena, or a brick slip chamber, leaves nothing to decorate. On a big Low Fell breast, or a stone cottage out towards Ryton, it is worth seeing the options in the showroom before you decide, because the chamber sets the look of the room.
Ask any installer this. On every stove installation in Gateshead we carry out, the people who arrive are our own HETAS registered engineers, the same team that surveyed the house. No subcontractors and no builder you have never met.
Book a free survey in person, or send us photos of the chimney breast and the outside of the stack. We will come back with a fixed price for your stove installation in Gateshead, in writing, with no obligation and no charge for the survey.
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.
