Stove Installation Cost Ireland 2026: Full Price Guide

Stove installation cost is the first thing nearly every customer asks about. With us, an inset stove supplied and fitted is €2,200 – €3,500 and a freestanding stove is €2,500 – €4,000. A boiler stove plumbed into your heating is €3,500 – €5,500. If the survey finds the chimney needs a liner, that is €1,000 – €2,500 on top.

Those are our 2026 ranges with VAT included. They cover labour, materials, waste away, commissioning and the certificate. Where your house lands in a range depends on five things: the stove, the chimney, the hearth, the air vent and the days on site.

Stove installation cost: our 2026 price ranges

The 5 things that decide your installation cost

1. The type of stove

An inset stove sits back into the fireplace opening you already have. A freestanding stove stands out on the hearth. Each is typically one day's work into a sound existing chimney. A boiler stove also heats your cylinder and radiators, so it is a plumbing job as well and takes two to three days. The back boiler stove guide covers that one in full.

2. Whether the chimney needs a liner

A liner is not automatically required, whatever you have been told. Technical Guidance Document J asks that the flue be suitable for the appliance, and a sound masonry flue of the right size can take a stove as it stands. Lining becomes necessary when the flue is oversize for the stove, leaks between floors, or shows cracking on camera. We put a camera up before quoting, so the answer comes from a picture.

If a liner is needed, it is €1,000 – €2,500 supplied and fitted, usually on the same day as the stove. If you intend to burn wood, TGD J Table 2 sets a minimum flue of 150 mm internal diameter, so the liner goes in at 150 mm even where the stove has a 125 mm outlet. A house with no chimney at all needs a twin-wall insulated flue built up through the roof, which is €1,800 – €3,200. There is more on the work itself on our chimney lining page.

3. The hearth

TGD J sets the hearth. A constructional hearth is at least 125 mm of solid non-combustible material. A free-standing hearth laid on a non-combustible floor can be 12 mm. If the hearth you have is not up to that, a new one goes in before the stove is set. Sizes and clearances to nearby walls come from the diagrams in the document and are checked on site.

4. The air vent

A stove that draws its air from the room needs a permanent air vent. TGD J requires a ventilation opening of at least 6,500 mm² free area for any solid fuel stove that draws its air from the room, whatever its output. You will read that a stove under 5 kW needs no vent. That is the UK rule from Approved Document J, and there is no under-5 kW exemption in Ireland.

Above 5 kW in a reasonably airtight house, the vent grows by 550 mm² for every extra kilowatt. A 5 kW stove needs 6,500 mm² and an 8 kW stove in the same house needs 8,150 mm². The vent is cored through the outside wall and grilled. It is the thing we most often find missing on stoves fitted by someone else.

5. The time on site

Labour is inside the fitted price, so the days on site show up in which range you are in. A stove into a sound existing chimney is one day, liner included in most cases. A boiler stove is two to three days. A twin-wall flue where there is no chimney is two to four days, depending on the roof.

Why the ranges are wide

Ranges are wide because houses are. A stove into a sound, correctly sized chimney with an existing hearth sits at the bottom of its range. The same stove into a 1930s farmhouse that needs a liner, a new hearth and a cored vent sits near the top, with the liner line added. Nobody can tell which you are from a phone call. That is why the survey is free and why nothing is quoted until Johnny has been up on the roof and put a camera down the flue.

What the fitted price covers

• The home survey (Free, no obligation), with a camera down the flue where needed.
• Labour and materials for the fit, and the waste taken away.
• The air vent, cored through the outside wall and grilled to TGD J.
• The first burn. We light the stove before we leave to check the draw.
• A walk through how to light it, how to run the air controls, and what to burn.
• The certificate, handed over the day the job finishes.

There is no statutory register of stove installers in the Republic. HETAS left Ireland in March 2022. So when you compare quotes, check three things with any fitter, us included: insurance, previous work, and the certificate you get at the end.

Is there a grant towards the cost?

No. There is no SEAI grant for a stove in Ireland, so budget for the full cost of installing a wood burning stove yourself.

Don't pay for more stove than the room needs

A bigger stove costs more and often heats worse. A stove too large for its room gets run with the air shut down, and a shut-down fire smoulders, tars the flue and dirties the glass. To size one, measure the room in metres, multiply length by width by height, and divide by 14. A sitting room 4 m by 5 m with a 2.4 m ceiling is 48 m³, which comes to 3.4 kW. That room takes a 4 kW stove comfortably, or a 5 kW if the house is old and draughty. Most Irish homes land on 4 to 6 kW. Our free stove size calculator runs the same sum for you.

The law sets a floor on efficiency. EU Regulation 2015/1185 has required at least 65% seasonal efficiency from closed-fronted solid fuel stoves sold in the EU since 1 January 2022. Good modern stoves are in the mid to high seventies. The wood burning stoves page has the full detail on types, sizing and the Irish regulations.

Sources: our own 2026 price ranges, checked 1 October 2026. Technical Guidance Document J, 2014 (air supply, flue size, hearth, flue suitability). EU Regulation 2015/1185 (stove efficiency).