What Happens on Installation Day

Before the day

• ✔Clear the area around the fireplace, including anything on the mantel
• ✔Move smaller furniture out of the room if you can
• ✔Keep pets somewhere else while doors are open
• ✔A parking space near the house makes the day quicker
• ✔Have your questions ready for handover, that is what it is for

Protecting the room

Sheeting goes down before any tools come in: floors, the hearth area and anything left in the room. A vacuum runs alongside the work, and a clear route to the van is agreed first so nothing is carried over carpet unprotected.

The work itself

1. 1Arrival and protection

   A quick walk through of the plan, then floors and furniture covered and a clear route to the van established.

2. 2Preparing the opening

   The fireplace is cleared, checked and, where needed, opened up and lintelled. The flue is swept before anything goes into it.

3. 3Lining the chimney

   The flexible liner goes down from the top, is connected at the stove and sealed at the pot with a new cowl.

4. 4Fitting the stove

   Register plate, hearth and stove positioned to the manufacturer's clearances, then the flue pipe connected and sealed.

5. 5Commissioning

   Draw test, smoke test, first burn, CO alarm check and the data plate filled in and fixed.

6. 6Clean up and handover

   Everything vacuumed, rubbish taken away, then ten minutes on lighting, fuel and air control before the certificate follows.

Before we leave

Draw and smoke tests, a first gentle burn, the carbon monoxide alarm checked, the data plate completed and fixed near the meter, then the room vacuumed and all packaging taken away.

Afterwards

The HETAS certificate and building control notification follow by post and email. After that it is a sweep once a year, which we book with you when the season comes round.