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thinking about fitting a log burner in the front room. bit of advice really off people whos done it, do you have to run the flue pipe all the way to the top of roof, as my pal who fitted his just had about 1m of pipe sticking up chimney? my roof has been tiled over the chimney so what will I do there?

 

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Where are you? Regulations in England and Wales state you need the chimney lined all the way up. Wouldn't fancy a pipe only a metre up, soot will collect around it on top of the register plate and cause a fire hazard unless you can get to it and clean it out. You'd probably have to have your chimney rebuilt if its been taken down and tiled over and all.

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Where are you? Regulations in England and Wales state you need the chimney lined all the way up. Wouldn't fancy a pipe only a metre up, soot will collect around it on top of the register plate and cause a fire hazard unless you can get to it and clean it out. You'd probably have to have your chimney rebuilt if its been taken down and tiled over and all.

 

 

cheers seems to much f**k on now, think I leave it then :thumbs:

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Where are you? Regulations in England and Wales state you need the chimney lined all the way up. Wouldn't fancy a pipe only a metre up, soot will collect around it on top of the register plate and cause a fire hazard unless you can get to it and clean it out. You'd probably have to have your chimney rebuilt if its been taken down and tiled over and all.

Only thought that applied to new chimneys or ones that are being renovated ?

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Where are you? Regulations in England and Wales state you need the chimney lined all the way up. Wouldn't fancy a pipe only a metre up, soot will collect around it on top of the register plate and cause a fire hazard unless you can get to it and clean it out. You'd probably have to have your chimney rebuilt if its been taken down and tiled over and all.

Only thought that applied to new chimneys or ones that are being renovated ?

Depends where you are..

 

These are the regs that apply in England and Wales:

 

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_ADJ_2010.pdf

 

The flue needs to to be the same size as the output of the stove, which generally means fitting a liner to a chimney originally build for an open fire..

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For 10 years have just had flu out the back of the woodburner go up existing chimney for 1 metre..... mildest winter ever here, have used less than half the normal amount of wood, and probably a pint glass of soot fallen, if that! Always swept the chimney myself.

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Look up double walled flu, can go straight through roof/ceiling with these. Prefabricated zinc/lead flashing dressed into tiles ;)

 

that seems better, I would do that but don't fancy building a chimney stack.

 

its a shared allyway only about 7ft high and 3ft wide couldn't get it comeing out of there.

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Look up double walled flu, can go straight through roof/ceiling with these. Prefabricated zinc/lead flashing dressed into tiles ;)

 

that seems better, I would do that but don't fancy building a chimney stack.

 

its a shared allyway only about 7ft high and 3ft wide couldn't get it comeing out of there.

 

Take it up to 7 feet inside then run it through the wall with a 45 elbow once outside run it vertical. Above 6'6" you should be fine and the pipe should be no more than 30cm from outer face of flue to the wall :thumbs:

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