Period property across the city and suburbs. 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.
Jesmond, Heaton and Gosforth are dominated by Victorian and Edwardian stock, much of it in Tyneside flats. That last point matters more than anything else on this page. In a Tyneside flat the flue has to travel past somebody else's home, which changes what is possible and what has to be notified.
The upside is the property itself. Original chimney breasts, generous rooms and cast iron surrounds worth keeping. We would far rather open a chamber up behind an original feature than tear it out, and on most of these jobs that is exactly what we do.
Parts of Jesmond and Gosforth also sit within conservation areas, which can affect what is permitted above the roofline. If a twin wall terminal or a new pot is involved, it is worth knowing that before the work is booked rather than afterwards.
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.
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What we would tell you in the showroom about stove installation in Newcastle, from period features to costs, rules and how the day runs.
Most stove installation in Newcastle happens in Victorian and Edwardian property. Jesmond, Heaton, Sandyford and much of Gosforth were built with a fireplace in nearly every room, so the chimney breast is usually there, often with an original cast iron surround worth keeping.
The stacks are sound but were built for open coal fires, which makes them far too wide for a modern stove. A flexible liner sized to the appliance is the standard answer.
Further out, Fenham, Kenton and the postwar estates are more mixed. Some houses still have a usable stack, others had it removed during a renovation or never had one. Where there is no chimney, stove installation in Newcastle means a twin wall insulated flue, routed through the house or up an outside wall.
Our prices are the same across the city as anywhere else we cover, fixed in writing after a free survey. Where the opening is already the right 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, hearth, chamber, beam, liner, cowl, carbon monoxide alarm and certification. Taller Victorian stacks sometimes need scaffolding for safe access, and if yours does it goes in the written price at the survey, never on the day.
We would far rather open a chamber up behind an original surround than tear it out. On a lot of Jesmond and Heaton jobs the cast iron insert comes out, the opening behind it is formed to suit the stove, and the surround goes back around a stove that looks as though it was always meant to be there.
Where the original surround has gone, a properly formed chamber in brick slip or tile, with a sandstone or slate hearth and an oak beam, suits a high ceilinged period room well. Part of every stove installation in Newcastle we design is working out which of those suits the room, not just which stove fits the hole.
Newcastle has extensive smoke control areas. 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 what applies.
Every stove installation in Newcastle we carry out is self-certified under Building Regulations, because we are HETAS registered, and the council is notified for you. Parts of Jesmond, Gosforth and other suburbs sit within conservation areas, which can affect a new pot or flue terminal above the roofline. We check that before the work is booked.
Most installations are a single day, occasionally two where the chimney needs more opening up than expected. We are around twenty minutes away in Hebburn. A typical day runs like this:
High ceilings change the maths. Room volume divided by fourteen gives a rough output in kilowatts, and a tall Victorian front room can need more than people expect. Above five kilowatts a permanent air vent is required, which we include in the price where it applies. Older solid walls and big sash windows lose heat, so we adjust for that too.
What we will not do is oversize the stove to be safe. A stove run low smoulders and tars the liner, which is the fault we are called to correct more than any other. Sizing it properly is part of every stove installation in Newcastle we quote, and our guide to choosing the right log burner explains how.
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 before you book. Keep the certificate from your stove installation in Newcastle with the house deeds, because a buyer's solicitor will ask for it.
The single biggest factor on many Newcastle jobs, and the one most often missed until the day.
A Tyneside flat is a pair of homes in what looks like one terraced house, one upstairs and one down, each with its own front door. Thousands of them survive across Heaton, Jesmond, Sandyford and Benwell. For stove installation in Newcastle they matter more than anything else, because the flue from a downstairs flat has to pass up through the home above it.
That changes what is possible. You need your neighbour's agreement for work in their flat, and if your flat is leasehold the freeholder will usually need to consent too. The liner has to run through the upstairs chimney breast, and any access work in their rooms has to be planned with them.
Upstairs flats are often simpler, because the flue only has to go up through the loft and out of the stack. The stack is usually shared with the flat below and with next door, so we survey it as a whole rather than just your flue.
We would always rather sort the paperwork and permissions before booking than discover a problem halfway through a day. At the survey we tell you exactly what consent your stove installation in Newcastle will need, and who from, so you can have the conversation with your neighbour or freeholder with the facts in front of you.
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 Newcastle, in writing, with no obligation to go ahead.
Practical points that come up on almost every city job. None of them need deciding on the day of the survey.
Often yes, but it needs surveying carefully. In a Tyneside flat the flue may pass adjacent to or through another property, which affects the route, the fire protection required and the notification. It is not a job to take on assumptions, which is why the survey matters here more than anywhere.
It can, particularly for anything visible above the roofline such as a twin wall terminal or a replacement pot. Lining an existing stack is usually far less contentious. We will flag anything worth checking with the council at the survey.
Usually, and we would encourage it. On period Newcastle property the original surround is often the best feature in the room. We open the chamber up behind it to a suitable size rather than removing it, where the construction allows.
Yes, though access and parking take more planning in the centre. We cover Newcastle, Jesmond, Gosforth, Heaton, Kenton, Fenham, Benton, Byker and Walker regularly.
Room volume matters more than floor area, so a tall Victorian room does need sizing properly. That said, oversizing is the most common mistake we get called out to correct, so we work it out at the survey rather than guessing upward.
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. Homes with no chimney need a twin wall flue, priced after a free survey.
Terraced streets in Heaton and Sandyford can be tight for parking, and taller Victorian stacks are not always safe to work from a ladder. We look at both at the survey. If the stack needs scaffolding, or we need a parking suspension for the van, it is in the written price for your stove installation in Newcastle rather than a surprise on the morning.
It is one of the first questions we ask about any stove installation in Newcastle. A wood burning stove burns logs only. A multi-fuel stove burns logs or approved smokeless fuel, which gives a longer, steadier burn and is useful if storage for logs is limited, as it often is in a city terrace or a flat.
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.
Worth thinking about before the stove goes in, particularly in a terrace with a small yard. Logs need to stay dry and ideally season for a while after delivery. A small covered store outside and a basket by the stove is usually enough for a room heater used through the evenings.
Buying smaller quantities of kiln dried, Ready to Burn certified logs more often is the other answer. A cheap moisture meter is worth having either way. Logs over 20% moisture spend their energy boiling off water rather than heating the room, blacken the glass and leave tar in the liner, and no stove, however good, burns wet wood well.
If you are new to running a stove, we go through lighting, air control and refuelling on the day it is commissioned, so you are confident with it before we leave.
If the original surround is staying, the choice is mostly about the hearth. If not, a plain chamber is ready for you to finish, while a tiled or brick slip chamber leaves nothing to decorate.
In a tall period room a brick slip chamber with a dark oak beam tends to look right, but it is worth seeing the options in the Hebburn showroom before you decide.
On every stove installation in Newcastle 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. If anything needs looking at afterwards, it is the same people who come back.
Rope, glass and baffles for the brands we fit are easy to get hold of, and we can tell you exactly which part you need over the phone.
That matters more in year five than any difference in price on the day, and it is a large part of why we recommend established brands for every stove installation in Newcastle we quote. Ask us at the survey which parts each model uses.
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.
