Chimney Repair & Stove Installation in Laois

County Laois sits at the heart of the Irish Midlands, and if there is one thing the Midlands are known for, it is cold winters. Portlaoise, Portarlington, Mountmellick, Abbeyleix, and Rathdowney all experience the kind of raw, damp, bone-chilling cold in January and February that makes an efficient stove not a luxury but an essential household fixture. We have been installing stoves for Laois homeowners for many years and we understand the practical heating demands of this inland, exposed county better than most.

The housing stock in Laois is predominantly made up of traditional bungalows and dormer bungalows built from the 1970s onwards, along with a substantial number of older farmhouses and rural cottages. These property types often have wide, traditional fireplace openings that were originally used for open fires or back boiler systems. Converting these to modern multi-fuel stoves is one of our most common Laois projects, and it is one where the results are immediately and dramatically apparent. A correctly sized and installed stove in a traditional Laois bungalow can reduce solid fuel consumption by 50% or more compared to an open fire while delivering far greater warmth.

Laois has historically been a county with excellent access to both wood and solid fuel. The bogs of the midland fringe and the woodlands along the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the west have long provided fuel for local homeowners. While peat burning has declined sharply in recent years for environmental reasons, good quality seasoned and kiln-dried hardwood from Laois and the surrounding counties is readily available, and a modern wood-burning stove is the ideal appliance to make the most of this local resource.

The heritage town of Abbeyleix has a particularly strong stock of period buildings, and we have completed several sensitive installations in protected structures and conservation area properties in the town. Portarlington, straddling the Laois-Offaly border, has a fascinating architectural heritage from its Huguenot settlement era, with several fine period properties where we have carried out careful, sympathetic stove installations. Whatever your property in Laois, we are ideally placed to help, being just over the county boundary from our Carlow base.