Wood inserts installed with a full liner in Pine Hills
Replacing an old insert in Pine Hills? We take it out, look at what it hid and install the new one properly.
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Measured at your Pine Hills fireplace, then written down
None of this comes from a brochure. Our installers confirm it at your fireplace during the free visit.
- Full-length stainless liner sized to the insert collar
- First fire lit together and controls explained
- Manual, model, serial number and liner details left with you
- Existing chimney cap checked for fit with the liner
Before an insert slides into your Pine Hills fireplace
Explained by the crew that lines and fits inserts in Pine Hills.
Inserts in factory-built fireplaces
A metal factory-built fireplace can take a wood insert only when the insert manual allows that use and the fireplace and its chimney carry a UL 127 listing. The Pacific Insert, as one example, is approved for masonry fireplaces or listed factory-built fireplaces under stated conditions.
Plenty of factory-built units were never designed to receive an insert, and their own manuals say so. We read the label inside your fireplace and both manuals before recommending anything, because a mismatch here is a listing problem that no surround can cover.
Cooling air paths in a metal fireplace stay open
Factory-built fireplaces often have louvers and air channels that keep their outer casing cool. Pacific's guide says the air flow within and around the fireplace must not be altered by the insert, which means no blocked louvers and no covered cooling inlets or outlets, including the circulating chambers of steel heat-circulating fireplaces.
We locate those openings before the surround is sized, so it trims the insert without closing a vent the fireplace depends on. If a surround would cover one, a different surround or a different insert is the answer.
The block-off plate in a direct connection
In a direct connection, a steel plate closes the damper area around the connector pipe so exhaust can only travel up through the pipe. The Travis manual describes sealing any cracks between the pipe and the plate with the materials it names, so no smoke finds its way back into the home.
The plate is cut to the shape of your throat and fastened so it stays put. We check the seal before the insert slides back, because once the surround is on, that plate is out of sight and needs to be right from the start.
Clean-out access and local code
Pacific's guide notes, for both its positive and direct connection methods, that a clean-out door may be required under local codes. The door gives access to the space above the block-off plate, where debris from the old flue can settle.
When local code or good practice calls for one, it goes on the estimate with its location. When it does not, we explain how that space is reached during later sweeping, so the arrangement is serviceable for as long as the insert stays in.
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Asked by Pine Hills homeowners before an insert goes in
What people in Pine Hills ask us before an insert is ordered.
What if my mantel is too close to the opening?
We measure it against the model's clearance table. The options are usually a model with a smaller mantel clearance, raising or replacing the mantel with noncombustible material, or a protection method the manual itself describes.
Will my hearth be big enough?
Insert manuals set how far the noncombustible hearth must reach in front of and beside the opening, and whether a flush hearth needs to reach further. We measure yours and write any extension into the estimate.
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