If you’re getting ready to install a wood stove, multi-fuel stove, or just updating your chimney system, you’ll quickly run into the need for a top flue liner kit. These kits are crucial for safely hooking up a stove to the chimney, making sure everything vents properly and runs efficiently. A typical flue liner kit […]
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Complete Log Burner Flue Kits: How to Choose the Right One for Your Stove
A log burner flue kit is essential for anyone installing a wood-burning stove, as it safely channels smoke and combustion gases out of your home. Using a properly selected flue kit improves stove efficiency and significantly reduces the risk of dangerous fumes escaping into your living space. When picking a chimney flue kit, it should […]
Explained: What Is a Chimney Cowl? : Purpose, Types, and Benefits
A chimney cowl is a specially designed cover fitted to the top of your chimney to protect it from rain, birds, and debris, while also helping to prevent smoke from coming back into your home. By improving ventilation and reducing downdraught, it plays an important role in keeping your fireplace or stove working efficiently. Some […]
How to Fit a Chimney Flue Liner: Step-by-Step Guide
Installing a chimney flue liner is an essential task for maintaining the safety and efficiency of a fireplace or wood burner. Over time, the already existing chimney flue can deteriorate due to the corrosive effects of combustion gases, leading to the potential for dangerous fumes to enter the living space. A new flue liner serves […]
Chimney Sweeping – Why and How Often?
How regularly a chimney should be swept can be an area of contention, mainly because there is a cost involved, but if every stove owner was aware of the devasting and sometimes fatal consequences of a chimney fire, there would be no debate. As there are no laws or building regulations governing the sweeping of […]
Which Way Up Does a Flue Pipe Go?
Why is it Important? A common misconception is that pipes connect in a way that will prevent the smoke within the system from escaping, but this is not true. Want proof? If you have established a suitable draw for your stove and chimney, smoke shouldn’t escape the flue even if there was a gaping hole […]
Flue Draught and Minimum Flue Heights
“The flue is the engine of the stove.” There are three certainties in life; death, taxes and the fact wood burning stoves will not work without an appropriate chimney. Flue pipes do not exist to solely exhaust smoke away from the stove, for within the correct chimney something wondrous occurs and the magical draw is […]
Building Regulations – Approved Document J Explained
Love them or loathe them, the building regulations exist to ensure all building work undertaken is safe and correct. And as the installation of a stove and flue system is considered ’building work’, there is an extensive list of regulations an installer must comply with… Namely Approved Document J of the Building Regulations 2010 for […]
What is Twin Wall Flue?
We often get asked “can I have a stove if I do not have an existing fireplace or chimney?”. This is typically for new builds or conservatories, summer houses, glamping pods and the like. The answer is most definitely YES! You simply create a chimney using Twin Wall flue pipes. Starting with the basics, a […]
What is a Chimney Register Plate and Why do You Need One?
Chimney Register Plates (or Closure Plates as they are also known), are typically a sheet of thin metal – although they can be made from any non-combustible material – designed to be fitted above the stove at the base of the chimney opening. This serves three purposes: Easy to cut to size and simple to […]