Am thinking of having woodburner to replace coal fire??

[fluffy apple]

Have got original coal fire but would like to take it out to have a wood burner. But do not know much about them as far as instalation etc!!

Am presuming need chimney lined?? But have heard how exspensive they charge to do this could a compentant diyer fit it

Also need enough heat for a open plan room

Any recommendations??

Any advice would be much appreciated thanks

[jake-the-peg]

I had a wood burner fitted a few years back.

There are basically 3 ways to line the chimney. A solid flue - our chimney was too contorted for that. A concrete lining around a former - not suitable for our house's construction and a flexible liner.

The diameter of the liner must be a certain size compared with the air intake and you need certain sized air bricks but It's not that difficult - my neighbour did his.

Don't skimp on skaffolding though it's not worth a fall.

If you want to keep the feel of an open fire - take a look at these

http://www.dovre.co.uk/html/insert-canopy-fireplaces.html

The doors close up to behave as a stove but you can open them up as an open fire

[coccinelle]

We had an insert, inserted into our fireplace with a flexible liner, but it is a largish fireplace. it gives off a lot of heat and we need to keep the doors of the room open so it does heat a few rooms in the house. It saves us a lot of heating bills as the wood comes virtually free. Only thing, it's messy and even though it's closed up I need to emulsion the walls every 2-3 years.

[Fitzer]

Easy enough to work out what will heat your room, room width x length x height in metres divided by 10 if poorly insulated or 14 if well insulated will give you number of KW required to raise temp by 20 degrees C, add 1 KW for every non-double glazed window in the room.