Pellet stove
prices.

We went back over every “stove”, “insert” and “fireplace” line in our 2024-2026 quotations. Five projects include a pellet stove, always priced on a single line: appliance, flue gas connection, outlet and finishes together. We therefore cannot honestly separate the price of the stove from that of its installation, and we do not do so.

Five projects is few: read this range as an order of magnitude, not as a tariff. Including all taxes, it gives about €6,650 to €7,910 at the 5.5% rate, or €6,930 to €8,250 at the 10% rate if the appliance does not meet the criteria for the reduced rate. Source: taken from our 2024-2026 quotations in Savoie and Haute-Savoie.

A pellet stove burns inside a closed firebox and discharges its fumes through a flue that must be airtight, suited to the appliance and compliant with the rules of flue work (standard NF DTU 24.1). Three situations come up on our sites:

• An existing flue in good condition, from a fireplace or an old boiler: it is lined, that is, a metal flue suited to the stove is slid into it. This is often the simplest solution.
• No usable flue: one has to be created, insulated, passing through the floors and exiting at the roof. The height of the house and the crossing of the floors then weigh on the budget.
• A balanced flue: on sealed stoves, a concentric duct draws combustion air from outside and discharges the fumes through the same passage. Three of our five quotations use this arrangement, which suits renovated, mechanically ventilated houses well.

When the stove takes the place of an open fireplace, you also have to allow for removing or adapting the old firebox, then the recess and finishes around the new appliance. Finally, a pellet stove needs a power socket nearby, for its feed screw and its fan.

With us, this work is done by our own salaried teams: the heating engineers install the appliance and the flue, our plasterers rework the partitions and the surrounds, our electricians run the line. A single quotation, a single team responsible for the result.

A conventional stove heats first of all the room where it stands. A ducted model pushes part of its warm air into insulated ducts, as far as one or two neighbouring bedrooms or upstairs. On three of our five projects, this type of stove was chosen, and the price stayed within the range above.

Ducting has its limits: each duct passes through a wall or a floor, its length reduces the heat that arrives at the end, and it does not replace a network of radiators in a large house with separate rooms. Before proposing it, we look at the plan, the possible route of the ducts and the insulation of the rooms to be served.

The pellet stove performs at its best in a compact, insulated house where the rooms communicate. It needs a little space to store the bags, regular topping up of the hopper and annual servicing. If the house is large, partitioned and fitted with wet radiators, the question is different: we deal with it in our guide Replacing your oil boiler: which heating?, and heat pump prices are detailed in Air-to-water heat pump prices.

In Haute-Savoie, the choice of appliance also matters for the air we breathe. According to Grand Annecy, 80% of the fine particles in the urban area come from the residential sector, mainly from poorly performing wood heating. That is the reason for the grants for replacing old appliances, and why we only offer stoves bearing the Flamme Verte label, created in 2000 by ADEME and the timber industry.

A pellet stove is not exempt from the rules for solid-fuel appliances:

• sweeping of the flue at least once every twelve months, by a professional (Public Health Code, Article R1331-71);
• annual servicing of the appliance, provided for by the order of 20 July 2023;
• two sweepings a year, one of them during the heating season, recommended by that same order when consumption exceeds 2.5 tonnes of pellets a year.

The regulations of your commune or département may be stricter: enquire at the town hall. Keep every sweeping certificate; your insurer may ask for it after a claim.

5.5% VAT applies to the supply and installation of a pellet stove in a home completed more than two years ago, if the appliance reaches a seasonal energy efficiency of at least 79% and respects emission caps (carbon monoxide, particles, organic compounds, nitrogen oxides) set by Article 30-0 D ter of Annex IV of the French General Tax Code. Failing that, it is 10% on renovation. The detail of the rates is in our guide VAT at 5.5%, 10% or 20%.

The CEE bonus remains possible with the BAR-TH-112 sheet “stand-alone wood heating appliance”: a house more than two years old, a pellet stove with a seasonal efficiency of at least 80%, capped emissions (the Flamme Verte label is proof of the emissions). Its amount in euros depends on the energy supplier that pays it.

MaPrimeRénov' per measure no longer funds the stove: the order of 25 August 2026 abolished the wood-heating flat-rate grant for applications filed since 1 September 2026. The stove can still be funded within a major renovation (rénovation d'ampleur), which requires at least two insulation measures. The full picture is in our guide MaPrimeRénov' 2026.

In Grand Annecy, the 2026-2028 Fonds Air Bois pays €2,500 to replace an open-hearth fireplace or a wood appliance predating 2005, still in working order, with a Flamme Verte labelled appliance. It is reserved for households with very low, low or intermediate incomes, in their main residence, and the order may only be placed after the application has been accepted. Grand Chambéry has its own replacement grant (“Balance ton poêle”): enquire with your inter-municipal authority before signing.

These grants require an installer holding an RGE qualification for wood heating, and the Fonds Air Bois of Grand Annecy an installer recognised by the scheme. Our RGE CertiRénov certification (no. CR-2026-73-0095) covers the global renovation offer; for a stove on its own, we check with you, before signing, what is eligible.