Fireplaces Hartley Wintney

Fireplace Fitter Hartley Wintney Hampshire (RG27): If you are frustrated with rising energy prices and would like to find another way to heat your house in Hartley Wintney, why not open up a disused fireplace and install an economical wood burning, open or multi-fuel fire? If you choose to combine your fireplace with a back boiler, not only can you enjoy the ambience and warmth of an open fire or stove during the cold winters' evenings, you'll also be provided with lots of steaming hot water.

There are a few vital things you must think about before you begin any work, if you are going to create an efficient, safe and attractive fireplace in your property. The UK Part J Building Regulations for heating appliances for example, which impacts on any work that is conducted on chimney breasts, flue linings, fireplaces and hearths. Planning permission may also have to be sought before work commences if your property is in a conservation area or is listed.

PROFESSIONAL OR DIY FIREPLACE INSTALLATION?

If you have the skills needed, and are accomplished at do-it-yourself you may be able to do some of the work in restoring an old fireplace, but the help of a tradesman may be needed if safety or structural issues arise during the process. When your blocked up fireplace is exposed you may be lucky and find a decent chimney breast, lintel and hearth that needs little more than the services of a chimney sweep to get it working once more. More likely you will come across a stopped up flue and old brickwork that requires structural modifications.

If fireplaces are installed incorrectly there's not only a risk of fire to your property, but there can be associated health hazards, which is why it's best to hire a specialist Hartley Wintney installation team for fireplaces. Airflow must be satisfactory in any room in which a fireplace is to be installed; in fact it is a key requirement of the Building Regulations (Part J) that this is the case. A fire that's burning inefficiently in a poorly ventilated room can result in a dangerous build-up of carbon monoxide.

To allow the fire to get adequate oxygen to combust safely and properly all the time, it may be necessary for a specialist fireplace installation technician to fit floors and walls with suitable airflow vents. To enhance air circulation in blocked or unused chimney flues, your fireplace installation engineer may need to install vents to stop condensed air being trapped and producing staining and damp areas.

BEFORE WORK STARTS

An enormous amount of dirt and soot can be discharged from a bricked up fireplace upon reopening it for restoration. It is advisable to remove any carpets, rugs and furniture from a room where you are planning to expose an old fireplace, to prevent them from being affected by muck, dust and soot that might be whipped up during the fireplace installation and chimney cleaning work. If your fireplace is being fitted as part of a larger renovation project then it ought to be one of the first things to be done once you've brought the room back to its bare walls and floors. If other work has already been done, this could be affected by dirt and chimney soot.

STRUCTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION WORK

With your fireplace now open, it is time to see what is in a fit state to be restored and give the hearth and chimney a comprehensive clean. Bringing in a proper chimney sweep to de-soot your chimney is one of the first items on the checklist. As well as cleaning and sweeping the chimney and flue, they will also assess the condition of your flue liner and chimney and tell you about any element of the flue and chimney structure that needs replacing.

Construction work may be necessary to beef up the existing chimney breast and chimney, and a new flue lining might also have to be installed. All this restoration work will need to adhere to the all important UK Building Regulations which are there for your own safety. This is not likely to be the kind of work that you can do yourself, therefore you will want to bring in a capable builder who has experience in good construction practices and a knowledge of the Building Regulations.

If you need to adjust the size of opening of your exposed fireplace to a more suitable size for your design, a concrete supporting lintel must be put in. Once this is complete the next step of your fireplace installation in Hartley Wintney will be to upgrade the hearth. You may find the original hearth has been set into a void in the floor, however to be in accordance with latest regulations it is required to be raised above floor level. If your fireplace is of non-standard size you may have to purchase a custom-built hearth, however there are a whole host of ready to fit hearths in slate, concrete or marble.

STYLES OF FIREPLACE

Choosing your ideal fireplace can be challenging amongst the different shapes, styles and sizes available from a fireplace showroom or online shop. It is quite possible that due to your existing chimney and flue, that some fireplace designs might not be suitable, and it pays to follow the recommendations from your fireplace installation company in this respect.

Certain rooms and houses will be more suitable for open fireplaces than a multi-fuel stove or a wood burner and vice versa. If you've got an old-fashioned inglenook fireplace, a cast iron wood burning stove can look gorgeous set inside it, which also has the benefit of effectively deflecting heat back into the room from the brick or stone walls that surround the stove.

Even if you do not have a chimney in your Hartley Wintney home, it's still entirely possible to put in a wood burning or multi fuel stove. This kind of fireplace can be installed with a stainless steel flue that's taken through an external wall and doesn't need a chimney, to be installed and work safely.

WOOD, MULTI-FUEL, GAS, OPEN OR ELECTRIC FIREPLACE?

The feel and ambience of a "real" fire cannot be matched, but what alternatives are available if this style of fireplace isn't possible within your Hartley Wintney home?

Gas Fireplaces - Come in an array of styles to suit any property and are usually more thermally efficient than wood burning stoves. Gas fireplaces can only be maintained and installed by a qualified Gas Safe registered technician, (Gas Safe replaced CORGI registration in 2009).

Electric Fireplaces - Electric fireplaces can be fitted easily and safely by anyone who's reasonable competent and there are styles which are suitable for almost any room and type of home in Hartley Wintney. Can be inset into conventional fireplaces, and with "real feel" electric fires it can often be hard to distinguish them from the genuine article.

Multi-Fuel Stoves - Multi-fuel stoves can be fired up with with a variety of fuels, including wood, oil, gas or coal, to establish a unique focal point in your home in Hartley Wintney. They can be used not only for heating an individual room, but some designs like the AGA collection, can supply hot water, provide a useful cooking area and can be used to heat the entire home if they're plumbed into a system of radiators.

Open Fireplaces - The classic fireplace which can make use of different fuels such as wood, smokeless coal, briquettes and other combustive materials. An open fire is wonderful to watch and modern fireplaces are no longer the draughty, inefficient and smoky objects they were in the past.

Wood Burning Stoves - Even the smallest room in Hartley Wintney can benefit from the installment of a wood burning stove, which are available in a range of styles, and can even be installed free standing. A back boiler is an added benefit and could provide hot water for use around the home, or to provide heating for the house via radiators.

Fireplace installation services can be found in Dipley, Rotherwick, Hound Green, Heckfield, Riseley, Hazeley Heath, Nately Scures, Mattingley, Eversley, Stratfield Saye, Hartfordbridge, Hazeley, in these postcodes: RG27 8FA, RG27 8UF, RG27 8EA, RG27 8QN, RG27 8AY, RG27 8NE, RG27 8TL, RG27 8LL, RG27 8RJ, and RG27 8ET, and also in Hartley Wintney itself. If they have the telephone code 01252 and the postcode RG27, it's fairly likely that they operate in Hartley Wintney or somewhere close by. Clicking on the "quote" form or banner will allow you to acquire fireplaces information for your area.

More Help and Guidance

To find out what's taking place in the world of fireplace installation pay a visit to one of the fireplace forums, subjects include building regulations, widening fireplaces, chimney flues, pellet stoves and boilers, wood burning stoves and stove vents. To discover fireplace photos and related social media advertising, check this out. Find out more about about fireplace accessories, the evolution of fireplaces, how fireplaces affect the environment, the various types of fireplace, the health effects of fireplaces and fireplace heating efficiency, take a look at the dedicated Wikipedia page (here). Learn the basics on installing a fireplace hearth and mantel by using YouTube here. By browsing around the internet you'll be able to read lots of helpful articles about fireplace decoration, fireplace designs and fireplace installation - we just found this fascinating one on fireplace design ideas head here.

Hartley Wintney Skip Hire Services

There's likely to be quite a lot of waste produced when you're undertaking any sort of home renovations or improvements in Hartley Wintney. When it comes to fireplace installations in Hartley Wintney, it will depend on the extent and specifics of your project. Sometimes there will be a great deal of waste, sometimes hardly any. Depending on who you employ to do the work, some tradespeople will include waste removal in the job quote and will be quite happy to dispose of it for you.

One of the easiest and most trouble-free ways to dispose of this waste is to hire a skip. Skips come in an array of different sizes, so you ought to be able to get one that's ideal for you. Most skip hire companies provide mini-skips, midi-skips, builders skips and roll-on-roll-off skips, and for different projects skip bags are also available.

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Doing a Search On the Web

In this day and age the majority of folks in Hartley Wintney who are trying to find tradesmen and services of any sort are inclined to "Google it", in other words search for them on the internet. Needless to say as you're currently checking out this page then you probably stumbled on it by searching on Ask, Bing, Yahoo or Google and we're thankful for that. The fact remains that the listings displayed on the 1st page of the major search engines may not be the particular results you were after. When you are trying to identify fireplace installers for example, you will go to a search engine like Google and key in "fireplace installation in Hartley Wintney", "fireplace installation near me", "fireplace installation Hartley Wintney" or "Hartley Wintney fireplace installation".

However, a large percentage of the 1st page of results on these search engines, as you'll quickly realise, are either going to be "pay per click" results or listings for the top trade portals like Quotatis, Checkatrade, TrustaTrader, Local Heroes, My Hammer or Rated People or business directories such as Yelp, Foursquare, Yell or 3 Best Rated. In order to uncover the web sites of genuine fireplace installers, you will need to scroll down to page two and three or even lower down the search engine listings.

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There is a variety of work that can be accomplished by your local Hartley Wintney fireplace installer including gas fireplace installation, fireplace repairs Hartley Wintney, wood burning fireplace installation, freestanding stoves in Hartley Wintney, Victorian fireplaces Hartley Wintney, double-sided stove installations, brick fireplaces, fireplace design, 2-sided fireplaces, flue lining, fireplace services, fireplace surrounds in Hartley Wintney, wood burning fireplaces, fireplace mantels, made-to-measure fireplaces, fireplace installation, fireplace cleaning in Hartley Wintney, corner fireplaces Hartley Wintney, the installation of modern fireplaces in Hartley Wintney, electric fireplaces, stone fireplaces Hartley Wintney, classic fireplaces Hartley Wintney, Victorian fireplace installations, marble fireplace installation, chimney strengthening, Regency fireplaces Hartley Wintney, fireplace suites, electric fire suites, Victorian fireplaces, fireplace restoration, chimney repairs in Hartley Wintney, marble fireplace surrounds Hartley Wintney, multifuel stove installations, fire grate conversions, fireplace packages, and more. These are just some of the tasks that are handled by those installing fireplaces. Hartley Wintney specialists will keep you informed about their whole range of services.

Fireplace Installers Near Hartley Wintney

Also find: Heckfield fireplace installers, Rotherwick fireplace installers, Hazeley fireplace installers, Nately Scures fireplace installers, Dipley fireplace installers, Mattingley fireplace installers, Hartfordbridge fireplace installers, Riseley fireplace installers, Eversley fireplace installers, Hazeley Heath fireplace installers, Hound Green fireplace installers, Stratfield Saye fireplace installers and more. The majority of these localities are catered for by companies who fit fireplaces. With the requisite knowledge and experience, these skilled tradesmen are adept at successfully installing fireplaces in your property. The atmosphere, warmth and comfort that a fireplace brings to their living spaces can be experienced by residents with the help and assistance of these dedicated specialists. Local home and property owners can get quotations by simply going here.

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