Rural and semi rural property across the region. Same team, same standard, wherever the job is.
Thirty years of working here means we usually know what a property needs before we arrive. The survey confirms it.
Out past Tyne and Wear a stove often stops being a feature and starts being a heat source. Plenty of rural Northumberland and Durham property has no mains gas, so a correctly sized appliance on a properly designed flue is doing real work through the winter rather than looking pleasant on a Sunday.
The building stock is older and heavier. Stone cottages with substantial chimney breasts, farmhouses with flues that were never meant for a modern appliance, and barn conversions with no stack at all. Twin wall comes up far more often out here than it does in town, and exposure means the route and the terminal need thinking about rather than defaulting.
Sunderland and Washington are more mixed. Terracing and postwar estates much like Tyne and Wear, so the approach there is closer to what we do closer to home.
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.
The things people in the North East ask us most often before booking a survey.
Further than most of our competitors, but not everywhere. Sunderland, Washington, Durham, Chester-le-Street and southern Northumberland are all regular work. If you are further out, ring and ask. We would rather tell you honestly than turn up and let you down.
It can do a lot, provided it is sized to the room properly. Oversizing is the common mistake, because an oversized stove run low burns dirty and tars the flue. We work the sizing out at the survey rather than selling you the biggest one we stock.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do out here. Converted property rarely has a usable stack, so it is a twin wall insulated system. On a conversion the route affects how it looks as much as how it draws, so it gets designed rather than guessed.
Yes. Height, prevailing wind and nearby trees or buildings all affect how a flue terminates and whether it will draw reliably. An exposed site sometimes needs the flue taking higher, or a particular terminal, and that comes out at the survey.
Yes. We can survey from clear photographs and Google Maps, which is often the sensible first step if you are further out. If the job goes ahead we still see the property properly before anything is installed.
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.
Not quite the right area? These are the places closest to the North East that we work in.
What we would tell you in the showroom about stove installation in the North East, from stone cottages to barn conversions, including costs, rules and how the day runs.
Once you leave the conurbation the job changes. In rural Northumberland and County Durham the property is older and heavier: stone cottages, farmhouses, former pit villages and barn conversions. A lot of it has no mains gas, so stove installation in the North East's rural areas is often about real heat through the winter rather than a feature for Sunday evenings.
That makes sizing and flue design matter more. A stove that is doing serious work needs a flue that draws reliably in all weathers, and a hearth and chamber built to take daily use for years.
Our prices do not change with distance, and every one is 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. Twin wall systems on conversions and farm buildings are priced individually, because the route and the height decide the cost.
Stone property usually has a substantial chimney breast and a stack that was built for an open fire or a range. The breast is often deep enough for an inset or a large freestanding stove, and the stonework is frequently worth leaving exposed. Opening it up is proper building work, which we do ourselves rather than handing to a separate builder.
Old stone stacks can be uneven inside, with offsets and bends. A flexible liner copes with that, and every stove installation in the North East we carry out in older stone property starts with a camera or a careful look down the flue so we know what we are working with.
Conversions rarely have a usable stack, so stove installation in the North East's converted farm buildings usually means a twin wall insulated flue. On a high ceilinged barn the route, the height and the terminal position all matter, both for how well it draws and for how it looks inside and out.
Exposure matters too. A terminal on an open hillside in Northumberland takes wind from every direction, so we design the height and the cowl around the site rather than defaulting to a standard kit.
Smoke control orders cover much of the urban North East but far less of the countryside. Either way, every stove we supply is suitable for a smoke control area, and the GOV.UK smoke control rules explain the detail.
Every stove installation in the North East we carry out is self-certified under Building Regulations, because we are HETAS registered, and the relevant council is notified for you. Listed buildings, conservation areas and national park land can need consent for an external flue, and the Planning Portal has the general rules. We check your property before designing anything that shows outside.
Most installations are one day, occasionally two where the chimney needs more opening up or a long twin wall run is involved. Further out, we plan the day so the team arrives early and everything needed is on the van. A typical day runs like this:
When a stove is heating a house rather than a room, the temptation is to buy the biggest one available. That usually backfires. An oversized stove run low smoulders, tars the flue and wastes fuel.
Part of every stove installation in the North East we quote is matching the output to the space it actually has to heat, and our guide to choosing the right log burner explains the approach.
Above five kilowatts a permanent air vent is required, which we include in the written price where it applies. A multi-fuel stove can make sense in rural property, because it gives the option of a longer burn on smokeless fuel overnight.
How the job changes from Sunderland and Durham out into Northumberland.
Closer to home, Sunderland and Washington are more like Tyne and Wear, with terraces, interwar semis and new town estates. They now have their own pages: see stove installation in Sunderland and stove installation in Washington for the local detail.
Durham city has a lot of older terracing and some fine period property, much of it within conservation areas, so external work needs checking first.
Out in the county, former pit villages have terraces with original stacks, while the dales have stone farmhouses and conversions. Stove installation in the North East's county towns and villages is a mix of lining and twin wall, often in the same week.
From Morpeth and Hexham out to the coast and the hills, Northumberland has more off gas property than anywhere else we work. Stone cottages, farmhouses and conversions are the norm, and exposure is a real design factor. We travel for the right job, and we will tell you honestly at the first call whether yours is within reach.
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, or more often if the stove is your main heat. The National Association of Chimney Sweeps lists qualified sweeps across the region.
You can check any installer on the HETAS register before you book. Keep the certificate from your stove installation in the North East with your house deeds, because a buyer's solicitor will ask for it.
However far we travel, the people who arrive are our own HETAS registered engineers, the same team that surveyed the property. On every stove installation in the North East we carry out there is no subcontracted fitter and no builder you have never met.
Book a free survey, or send us photos of the chimney breast, the outside of the stack and the room. We will come back with a fixed price for your stove installation in the North East, in writing, with no obligation to go ahead.
Not every job is a new installation. These are the problems we are most often asked to fix outside the city.
Many rural stoves were fitted straight into an old stone flue with no liner. The flue is far too big, so gases cool, condense and leave tar that can stain through the chimney breast. Replacing that kind of installation with a properly lined stove installation in the North East is one of the most common jobs we do outside the city.
A stack or terminal on an open hillside takes wind from every direction. Smoke into the room on windy days is usually a terminal height or cowl problem, not the stove. We look at the site as a whole, and on any stove installation in the North East in an exposed spot the terminal is designed for the location.
This is the fault we correct on more stove installation in the North East jobs than any other. When a stove is the main heat it is often oversized to be safe, then run low to stop the room overheating.
It smoulders, the glass blackens and the flue tars. A correctly sized stove run hot is cleaner, cheaper to run and better to sit next to. Every stove installation in the North East we quote is sized to the space it has to heat.
It usually comes up when a house is sold. 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 the North East.
Farmhouses sometimes still have an old range or a stove with a back boiler that once heated the water. Removing those safely, capping any pipework through a qualified heating engineer and forming a new chamber is all part of the survey conversation. Whatever is involved, the price for your stove installation in the North East is fixed in writing before anything is booked.
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.
