Flue & Fire Hearth Studio fits fireplaces, wood stoves and chimney liners in Wexcombe and the river valley.
A fire is the one piece of furniture you build the room around. It should look as if it was always there.
I trained as a mason in Bergen and spent ten years rebuilding chimneys. We fit around sixty fires a year, so one of us is on every job from the survey to the first fire. And we tell you when the fireplace you have is better left as it is.
Anders Holm, founder
Compare four kinds of fire by heat, fitting time and starting price. Pick one and we bring drawings of it to the survey.
A real open fire, rebuilt to draw well.
We rebuild the firebox, fit a new throat damper and line the flue, then set the surround in stone or plaster to suit the room. It is the least efficient fire we make and the one people remember.
Real heat, and a flame behind glass.
A clean-burning stove on a stone or steel hearth, with a twin-wall flue through the roof or a liner down an old chimney. We draw the hearth, the log store and the flue route before anything is ordered.
An old fireplace, made to heat the house.
A sealed firebox that slides into the fireplace you already have, with a stainless liner to the top of the stack. The surround stays as it is, and the room finally gets warm.
A flame at the touch of a switch.
Linear, see-through or three-sided, set flush into a wall we frame and finish ourselves. Balanced flue out through the wall, so no chimney is needed, and a licensed gas fitter on every job.
An old clay or brick flue is usually too wide for a modern stove, and it cracks and collects tar. A stainless liner fixes all three. We line chimneys for any fire, not only the ones we fit.
Liners from $2,600, fitted.
Anders or Maren comes to the house, looks up the chimney with a camera, measures the room and listens. The survey is $180 and comes off the install.
Within ten days you get a scaled drawing of the hearth, the fire and the flue route, with two finishes priced side by side. Architects get the DWG.
One team from start to finish, dust sheets down, floors protected. Most stoves and inserts are fitted in two days; open hearths take longer.
We light the first fire with you, show you how to run it low and clean, and leave the manual and the permit sign-off on the mantel.
The studio is an 1870s timber barn on Mill Lane. Through the cold months nine fires are lit, so you can feel a stove’s heat before you choose one. Bring a photo of the room and a floor plan if you have them.
We do not take on new sweeping-only customers. Every client gets a reminder in late summer and a slot before the first cold night.
$210a year
Sweep, camera check of the liner, door seals and glass, and a note of anything to watch before next winter.
Clients, call (555) 014-2014We had a 1890s parlor fireplace nobody had lit since the seventies. Flue & Fire lined it, fitted an insert and left the old tiles exactly as they were. It heats the whole ground floor now.
They were the only installer who sent a drawing I could put straight into our set. The stove sits exactly where the plan said it would, and the flue lines up with the ridge.
Tell us about the room and the fire you have in mind. If you would rather talk it through, call the studio.
(555) 014-2014