The same could be said for a masonry chimney, right?The Stove installer never truly knows how the prefab was installed.
The same could be said for a masonry chimney, right?The Stove installer never truly knows how the prefab was installed.
Problem is it cannot be correctly installed into a unit that is not allowed to have an insert in it.I have seen many a fire started by those reasons but not one from a correctly installed insert into a pre fab fire place.
Not at all and i respect your opinion.Finally, I hope you do not take this conversation to be argumentative or disrespectful.
Because if something does happen all of those people are protected by law from litigation the installer is not. So if there is a claim and they find negligence (which this is) they are going to go after whoever installed it.You know more about this than me, but if the city building inspector, city fire inspector and insurance person all come out and sign off that it is safe I don't see how there can be any liability on the installer.
I totally disagree. How can you pick and choose which set of instructions to follow? If one set clearly says it cant be done then it cant be done without voiding the ul listing on that unit. And once that unit is no longer a ul listed appliance none of those inserts are allowed to be installed in it. So the only one left in the liability loop is the installer. Now the ones that allow it that is obviously perfectly fine. I did not know that majestics allowed it now toWhich doesn't mean you can't install an insert and liner which have been specifically listed for installation in zero-cans in a Superior or FMI fireplace: it just means that those manufacturers might be out of the liability loop in the unlikely event that the insert/liner installation causes any damage.
It can because if you modify that listed appliance so it is not in the tested form it no longer meets the requirements of its listing.The point here is, installation of an insert cannot void the UL listing on a manufactured fireplace, because installation of an insert was never part of that listing.
I agree and that is why I advise the way i do.It's just that thousands of people look to this website for information from helpful professionals like you, and I think it is super important that the info presented be accurate.
What listing is that covered under?although there is a testing protocol for inserts that allows them to be listed for installation in manufactured fireplaces)
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