Bispham is a five minute run for us and full of the 1930s semis where the original opening is still behind the plasterboard. Openings formed, chimneys lined, oak beams and slate hearths set, tested and signed off across Bispham and the FY2 postcodes around it.
Bispham is largely interwar semi-detached housing, where the original opening is usually still there behind a 1970s tiled surround or a sheet of plasterboard and comes back out in a morning. In practice most of what we are called out for around Bispham is semi-detached breasts opened out, with everything else on the list available alongside it.
A woodburner fitted properly is one visit from an empty chimney breast to a stove burning in front of you.
/02A multifuel stove has a raised grate and an ashpan underneath, so it will burn smokeless fuel as well as wood.
/03Most of the work in a good stove installation happens before the stove arrives.
/04The flue is the part of the installation nobody sees and the part that decides whether the stove draws, stays clean and stays safe.
/05The beam and the hearth are what turn an opening with a stove in it into a fireplace.
/06The inside of the chamber is what you actually look at when the stove is lit.
/07Two very different looks from the same job.
/08Victorian chequer, patterned encaustic, plain slate and quarry tiled hearths, laid to a set out that lands the pattern centrally on the opening rather than wherever the first tile happened to go.
Across Bispham (FY2) it is mostly semi-detached breasts opened out, chamber rebuilds and oak beam and slate hearth sets. Bispham is largely interwar semi-detached housing, where the original opening is usually still there behind a 1970s tiled surround or a sheet of plasterboard and comes back out in a morning. Every job starts with a free survey of the actual chimney breast and the stack, because a price given over the phone for work like this is a guess.
No. Travel is included in the price. Bispham is about 4 km from our Blackpool base, which is well inside the patch we cover as a matter of course, so you are paying for the stove and the work rather than for the van.
Yes. Bispham is a five minute run for us and full of the 1930s semis where the original opening is still behind the plasterboard. We are happy to talk through the kind of installs we have done near Bispham Village when you call, and to explain how we would approach yours.
Usually helpfully. Most of Bispham is interwar and post-war semi-detached housing, which means a masonry flue is there and the original opening is normally still behind whatever was put over it in the 1970s. Those breasts open back out cleanly, and the common surprise is finding a back boiler or a redundant gas supply that has to be removed and capped before we can go any further.
A clean install into a sound existing chimney is usually a single day on site in Bispham. Opening a blocked breast, rebuilding the chamber, fitting a beam and hearth and making the plaster good runs to two or three days, and a twin wall system through the roof is normally two. You are told which of those yours is at the survey, along with the price, before anything is committed.
That is the order we would rather do it in. The survey tells you what the chimney can take, whether it needs a liner or a twin wall system, what size appliance the room actually wants and what the builder work will cost. Choosing a stove first and finding out afterwards is how people end up with something that is too big for the room or will not fit the opening.
Yes. The installation is notified through the HETAS scheme, so you get a certificate of compliance with Part J of the Building Regulations without needing a separate building control inspection. Keep it with the house paperwork, because it is what a surveyor, a solicitor and your insurer will ask to see.
Send a photo of the chimney breast and David will come back with a price.