In Scotland building regs are that in order for the stove to be safe and draw properly it MUST be above the apex, if it's below the apex it doesn't comply with safety regs, and this is why you have to have planning permission. You also have to have air bricks installed to provide circulating air (permanently open, not the closable kind). It's all very tightly controlled because of the risk of carbon monoxide.
Have you asked a proper stove installer, rather than a builder who thinks they can do the job?
yes n, it's a proper stove installer that I've spoken to, they're also certified to carry out all the work in accordance with the HETAS regulations etc themselves. Until the chap sees the job he can't guarantee planning permission will not be needed but he says it's unlikely that we'll need it in our case. They are one of the best known firms in our area for installing stoves so I trust their judgement.
Haize, it will be a shiny pipe thingy which they'll paint black to match the stove, and the pipe outside the conservatory has to be black, no chimney to be built.
Bet you can't wait, L1....Dogs curled up by our blaze now, Toff has just had a bath! _________________ A woman needs to feel loved to have sex,
A man needs sex to feel loved.
We've just acquired one for Greenman's room, it's a multifuel. We have the hole in the wall, the chimney (which was bricked up) has been swept and now all we need to do is put it in. Greenman wants to paint it blue first, and build a fancy hearth out of pieces of marble he found in the woods. Should look quite good when it's finished. I'll post pics if we ever get to that stage!
one other thing to consider and that is the kilowt output that you require
we didn't want something with too high an output as i couldn't see the point in have a multibuter that i couldnt' sit in the room with when it was alight
we bought a second hand stove so we didn't have to pay any VAT but the big expense was still the chimney liner, the backfill of the chimney and the new pot and cowl on top of that....we had a 3kw output stove in the end, just enough for us, we don't like too much heat and i don't think old houses really benefit from being too over heated
we also had a stove with a hood on it, i was initially a bit disappointed in this as i wanted to be able to use it for cooking under emergencies but the hood can be removed fairly easily so it isn't a problem
we only really require ours to be lit in the evenings as we are outside all day and the heating isn't turned up anyway above 15 till the evenings when i put it up to 18.....usually the stove kicks in fairly quickly so the heating stops running withing minutes and then doesn't come on again till the next evening if you can understand my drift
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