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Direct-Vent Fireplace Installation
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" Always got an interesting addition to the cottage here and he's got jacked. And Craig to tell us all about it this is Vermont castings yes -- and its guests to mean we're out here in the middle of Berkshire hills does it make sense to have gas appliances yes it does typically we have 500 gallon above or underground tank yeah. We shall have regularly in the case of power outages you defeat yet. OK I see and tell me something Craig is this kind of the state of the art in terms of this type of fireplace state of the art this is direct vent technology. Which basically you're using air from the outside. Burning and then sending your exhaust back to the outside so you're not using any of the air that's inside delivering and it's already been heated by the front you're not using any air from inside a house -- its own separate entity. All right now this a pretty impressive. Fireplaces large very very very probably one of the biggest ones on the market now and it. Is it more than just up a pretty picture I mean will actually provide any heat into the room it will. -- up to 30000 BTUs of heat into the room -- now how does this work what's he doing in here. Well basically -- right now he's putting what's called some decorative embers and some rock wool material. -- to the burner to enhance your flame picture. To give you that glowing ember look of your real burning fire the mineral wool does that yes -- and so he's just added all these little west of mineral wool in there for that effect. And then what's the what are the black pebbles. Mainly mainly first static but they will heat up and give you a little bit of glow when the flames are coming up through them. All right so the package comes with the fire brick panels and the cast irons and what are the logs made out of the launch -- a fiber ceramic material. They will actually when flame hits and will heat up and we'll give you a little bit of glow. So the fire will actually come from that ceramic black element that just looks like the bottom of the box it's a ceramic burner yes it. This is all ceramics -- can take all the all the heat that. Is generated by it you have to worry about it cracking and -- it's all designed your your back panels and your logs are designed for that. Working with the zero clearance of your box which allows you to frame rate up to -- Yeah that's the beauty of this that the these things is -- zero clearance at the double walled exhaust system. And you don't have to worry about keeping walls and and partitions away from any of these surfaces because they don't get very hot correct you have your fresh air coming in the outside. Exhaust in the middle of the fight so. Your fresh air actually acts as an insulator Newton. Are we ready to fire it up guys yes. All right so -- Student. Look at that these little. Wool mineral wool particles almost immediately start taking on the glow. Now you can't use it without the glass you have to put the glass in place initiative being -- an appliance it has to be had its makeup air come in from the outside. Can't use any air from within the house what sort of -- this is a tempered glass on this material they mixed fireplaces with ceramic or transferred glass what's the difference I your tempered glass tends to hold some of the heat into the unit so it doesn't make the room too hot. Whereas the ceramic glass gives you the ability to radiate that heat out into the room I see now how expensive -- I was this year and here is probably about 1900 dollars in hot. And I believe the glass part is a big part of that. If this had ceramic glass on it would probably add three to 400 dollars to the cost of this unit well that's going to be a handsome addition to the room thanks fellows thank you."
