Wood inserts installed with a full liner in South Eola
A cleaner, more controllable wood fire behind glass for your South Eola home, with a workmanship warranty on our work.
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Measured at your South Eola 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
- Old insert, doors, grate and screen removed
- Hearth depth and width checked, extension if needed
- Existing chimney cap checked for fit with the liner
Before an insert slides into your South Eola fireplace
Explained by the crew that lines and fits inserts in South Eola.
No chiseling into the fireplace to make a unit fit
Insert manuals warn against removing bricks or mortar from an existing fireplace. The exception in the Pacific guide is narrow: masonry or steel at the smoke shelf and the damper frame may come out to accommodate a liner, provided the structure is not weakened and protection for nearby combustibles is not reduced.
If a model only fits by cutting into the firebox walls, it is the wrong model for that fireplace. Our specialists would rather say so during the visit than weaken the masonry that separates your fire from the framing behind it.
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.
What never goes into an insert
EPA lists what should never be burned in a wood heater: household trash, cardboard, plastics, foam, colored ink on magazines and packaging, and coated, painted or pressure-treated wood. Insert manuals add that no other fuel than the one listed may be used.
We leave a short list with you at handover and mention it again if we see a box of offcuts beside the hearth. Painted trim, pallets and treated lumber look like firewood, and they are not. Burning them fouls the glass, the baffle and the liner, and it sends pollutants into the neighborhood air.
A television above the fireplace
Warm air from an insert rises past the mantel and the wall above. The manual's clearances cover combustible materials such as a mantel and top facing; a television has its own limits from its maker.
When a screen hangs above the opening, we measure its position against the insert's mantel and top-facing clearances and explain how the heat will reach it. Sometimes the answer is a model with a lower top clearance, and sometimes it is a shelf that deflects heat.
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Insert questions South Eola homeowners ask next
What people in South Eola ask us before an insert is ordered.
How should I get rid of the ashes?
Scoop them into a metal container with a tight-fitting lid, and leave it on a noncombustible surface, clear of anything that burns, until the ashes are cold. Insert manuals give the same instruction.
What is the metal tag on the fireplace back wall?
When a fireplace is modified for an insert, one maker requires a metal tag fastened to the back wall. We fit it whenever your model's manual calls for one, and it stays there for anyone who works on the fireplace later.
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