Wood inserts installed with a full liner in Storey Park
A cleaner, more controllable wood fire behind glass for your Storey Park home, with a workmanship warranty on our work.
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Liner, surround and hearth items for Storey Park insert jobs
We check every point below against the manual for the insert you have in mind, then price it as its own line.
- Chimney height checked against the model's minimum
- Surround sized to the fireplace face and sealed where required
- Clearances to mantel, side trim and top facing measured
- First fire lit together and controls explained
What decides an insert installation in Storey Park
A closer look at the liner, the surround and the hearth in Storey Park.
Angled side walls and a narrow back wall
Many masonry fireboxes narrow toward the back and lean forward near the top, a shape meant to throw heat from an open fire into the room. An insert body is a rectangle, so those angles decide how deep it can sit and whether its top passes under the throat.
When the back is too narrow for a full-depth fit, some models are made to sit partly forward on the hearth, which then changes the floor protection they need. We sketch the outline of your firebox during the inspection and hold it against the manual's minimum widths so the unit ends up square, level and supported.
Fireplace repairs finish before the insert goes in
Insert manuals ask for the fireplace to be examined for cracks, loose mortar and other defects, and for any repairs to be completed before installation. Travis Industries puts it simply: the entire fireplace, including the chimney, must be clean and undamaged. Once the insert and surround are in, the firebox behind them is hard to reach.
If our inspection turns up damage, the repair is written as its own item with its own scope, separate from the insert work. You decide on both with the facts in front of you, and nothing is closed up behind a surround to make the job look finished.
Sealing a factory-built fireplace around the insert
That guide also wants a seal in one of two places, the surround against the fireplace face or the damper area around the liner, so room air has no path into the fireplace's chimney cavity. Left open, that cavity can draw warm room air up past the liner.
We use the sealing method the manual names for your combination of fireplace and insert, and we check it with the surround in place. The fireplace's own cooling paths are a different thing entirely, and they are left untouched so the metal casing stays as cool as its maker designed.
Raised hearths and flush hearths
A raised hearth stands above the surrounding floor, while a flush hearth sits level with it. The Pacific guide treats the two differently: a hearth raised above a combustible floor meets its requirement at one depth, and a flush hearth has to reach further out in front of the opening.
We measure the height and depth of your hearth and read the manual for your model before deciding whether it passes. The result, and any extension it needs, goes into the estimate in plain words.
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Insert questions Storey Park homeowners ask next
If we missed your question, our Storey Park insert team answers the phone.
Should I buy the insert before you measure?
It is better to measure first. The manual lists minimum fireplace sizes, chimney height, flue size and clearances, and we check all of them against your fireplace so the model you buy is one that fits.
Can the insert share a flue with another appliance?
No. Both insert manuals we work from say not to connect the insert to a flue that already serves another appliance. Where the chimney has several flues, we confirm which one belongs to the fireplace and keep the insert on it alone.
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