Why remove a Wood Burner?
Woodburners (woodfire, log-fire, log burner or fireplace as they are sometimes referred to as) can be useful over winter but do need to be continuously maintained, cleaned and the Flue kept free from soot in order to comply with the ever-increasing safety requirements. Woodburners however are often left in the corner and neglected most of the year. They also take up a lot of room in the lounge, when it can be used for better things. With the popularity of the Heat Pump increasing, and the ridicule of the old fossil fuel burners on the `Most Wanted List’ of the Auckland City Council, its time to `move-on’ and make way for clean, green methods of heating. Additionally they might be leaking and causing hidden water damage to your house. These are just some benefits of considering a woodburner removal.
Woodburner removal
Wood burners are fast becoming replaced by Heat Pumps, freeing up valuable space in lounges and promoting clean air. Some Heat Pumps come with Wi-Fi enabled functions allowing you to heat your house while on your way home from work. Try that with a wood burner! To assist you we offer a woodburner removal service.
Recycling Wood burners
We recycle your old Wood burners through a network of Scrap Metal Recycling plants. It’s not encouraged to dispose of wood burners via refuse depots because they often end up in landfill. We want to help keep NZ `Clean and Green’. To this end we encourage our clients to remove and recycle their old aerials and Satellite Dishes as well.
What do we do when we remove a Woodburner
There are a few main parts of a Wood Burner that we remove. Including the Wood Burner these are the flue, heat shield, and on the roof the cowl and the inner case. If we are capping the chimney we will put a waterproof galvanised steel cap over the outer case outside. If the roof is repaired then everything is removed. This means nothing is visible outside once we have finished our job. Capping the chimney is a cheaper and by far the most popular option. For pricing guidance on our woodburner removal service refer to our pricing page here.
Hearth removal
Once the Wood Burner has been removed, we then turn our attention to what the Wood Burner was sitting on and the hole where the chimney used to pass through the ceiling.
If the Wood burner is free standing, then it is usually installed on top of a brick or tile hearth or on a tiled portable base. For inset Wood Burners recessed into a brick chimney, then there is usually no hearth to remove, and we can make a cover to cover the cavity left behind when the Wood Burner has been removed.
For the hole in the ceiling, we can provide a patch to stop drafts and dust from the ceiling cavity.
Roof repair
There are several types of roofing materials used in New Zealand, but the most common ones are Decramastic pressed steel tiles, Concrete tiles, Long run and Corrugated Iron. We can repair all these roof types in most cases and would be happy to give you a quote if required.
You will see some examples of these types of roofing materials on this page.
Part of the repair is fixing the purlin that the roofing sits on. This is commonly cut by the Wood Burner installers when they were putting in the Wood Burner and this will need to be repaired as part of the repair process.
