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Originally Posted by Neil
What about flue liners Derek, can you use a wood burner with a liner? Don't most gas fires use a liner as well now, especially in newer houses?
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If the chimney is ok, the flue liner can come out, if not, it has to be replaced but will be a different size, and maybe twin walled, it is suggested that liners be used for gas fires, but not a requirement, many installers will tell you to install a liner 'to be certain' but imo it is more about getting more money out of you, I recently tested a chimney on 4 different days because the customer had been told the chimney was unsafe (there was apparently smoke coming into the next room) I suspect the installer had let a second smoke pellet off in the other room just to scare the customer into having the liner installed, engineers who work for companies are paid commission to sell liners, this inevitably leads to false claims about chimneys, and even cheating, just for the record, if one of my engineers made false suggestions, they would be out of work very quickly.