Woodburner help and advice

[dawsonc]

Starting this on a new threadI really could do with some advice. We speak are speaking to several professionals at the moment, who all give us different advice. Who do you believe?
We have two wood burners and noticed recently a build up of smoke, and have ahd tar leaking down the chimney when it rains. We had our chimney swept last summer, and have never had problems with it until then. First thing that happened was that we got lots of water down the chimney, so we had a cowl fitted. In view of the current issues, we decided to get somebody in to service our wood burners and sweep our chimneys. The guy who would service it came along and said that we need two new wood burners, new flues, and vermiculite lined chimney liners for both. Total cost £4500. Bit of a shock as we only thought they needed servicing. This guy said we are lucky to be alive. Then our builder told us, that this is rubbish, and that we do need some work, but that as the chimneys are terracotta lined, then are fine. What we do need is a cowl on the other chimney, a new flue (as it is no long sealed) and a barrier (can't remember the technical term) made of metal sealing off the opening to the chimney and the flue. Who do we believe ?

thanks for your help

 

[gasbanni]

You need to get Hetas registered installers to give you advice preferably several
http://www.hetas.co.uk/

and take it from there.........whose right and whose wrong is impossible to say without seeing what you've got. But the builder may well be wrong !
unless he's really familiar with solid fuel !