This guide is aimed at any person who intends to install a wood-burning stove in an existing building. It is assumed you will have sufficient skills to undertake the work.

Technical Guidance for Installers and Trade

This guide is intended to advise installers on the practices and procedures that must be followed in the commissioning and testing of flues and chimney systems serving solid fuel appliances.

The guide informs you on how to check that existing, relined or new flues discharge safely to external air. It is restricted to natural draught flues intended for open-flued appliances. It informs you how to assess whether the
flue in the chimney, the connecting fluepipe (and flue gas passages in the appliance) are free of obstruction and
acceptably gas tight.

Tests on flues should be carried out at the most appropriate time during the building work. Where possible, smoke tests should be performed when the structure of a chimney is visible and before it has been plastered or dry lined.