Gas fireplace help please!!!!

I recently built a house and the house has a heat pump central heat and I also have a pellet stove for the times that the temps really drop.

The master bedroom is larger than normal and me and the wife wanted a gas fireplace in the bedroom. I bought a wood mantle kit and then got a 26 inch ventfree propane fireplace to put in it. Well we hate it because it produces an odor. Kind of a metallic odor...if that makes sense.

I want to replace it with a vented fireplace. I would love to get a 26 inch vented fireplace but the smallest vented fireplace that I can find is a 32 inch unit. I believe that I could convert the mantle to fit the 32 inch one but would rather have the smaller size. I think that I could fit as large as a 28 inch wide fireplace before having to do major mods to the mantle.

So, does anyone make a 26-28 inch wide vented fireplace?

jtp10181 said:

This one is 28" and direct vent.

http://www.heatnglo.com/products/fireplaces/gasFireplaceDetail.asp?f=01300

Also FYI vent-free appliances are usually not allowed in sleeping areas unless they satisfy minimum air volume requirements. I hope you have some good CO detectors.

Click to expand...

Thanks for the help. My bedroom is quite a bit larger than most bedrooms. It also has 11 ft ceilings. We also have a CO detector close to the unit. Due to the smell, we aren't using the fireplace at all. I like the looks of the fireplace but hate the odor. I think a lot of the odor comes from new carpet and other new stuff in the bedroom off gassing various chemicals and the chemicals getting burned in the fireplace but I still don't like it.

jtp10181 said:

This one is 28" and direct vent.

http://www.heatnglo.com/products/fireplaces/gasFireplaceDetail.asp?f=01300

Also FYI vent-free appliances are usually not allowed in sleeping areas unless they satisfy minimum air volume requirements. I hope you have some good CO detectors.

Click to expand...

Any idea of a retail price and where is a good place to buy it? The web site puts kind of a broad price range on that fireplace.