Two flues up one chimney?

[trees]

One of our properties has a large open fireplace in the kitchen, into which we intend fitting an old "range, a small one, just for it's looks and some background warmth.

The chimney is large and open.

Immediately behind it is a barn that we have converted into various rooms, the one behind the kitchen is sa large dining room, 4.5m x 9.5m.

The wife has the idea that she can buy yet another small woodburner, the pot-bellied type, freestanding, and lead IT'S flue up, throufg the wall and into the same chimney.

Before I let her start looking for another stove, are there any rules that expressly forbid this? Both flues would be extende up said chimney with stainless flexible liners.

[Anton Redman]

If the liners go all the way to the roof and the gases from the fires never meet if the chimney it should work. If the liners stop after a couple of metres it will be horrible with smoke entering the room via the weaker fire.

[trees]

Cheers for that Anton......so no EC/French regs to stop me, so long as I do it right?

[Rob Roy]

We have a woodburner in our cantou, and a woodburning stove next door in the kitchen with the flue going through the wall straight up the cantou chimney. We have no problems with either.

[trees]

Thankyou, just what the wife wanted to hear.

Now she can spend on ANOTHER stove and guess who's fitting it?

[woolybananasbrother]

BUT, whatever happens, do not put the flue from a central heating boiler in the same chimney as a wood burner (or vice versa of course). My heating engineer says it is a definite nono.

[trees]

Aha!!! I KNEW I read something like that somewhere, that clarifies it, thanks for that.