Hello all,
I am new here and honestly, never thought I would find a forum like this for fireplaces but I am glad I did. My wife and I bought a new home 4 years ago and it came with a 36" Heatilator BC36R woodburning fireplace. It's pretty small and not very good quality but it works for what we need so we use it. Well, the inner walls are made of a fibrous terra cotta like material. The side, bottom and back walls are all cracked and degraded and I was told that is dangerous.
I need to replace them but I don't know what these things are called. They are the panels that line the inside of the fireplace. I had a chimney sweep tell me to get a firebacker and I am cool with that but what about the bottom and side walls? I don't know where to get these and the internet has resulted in no results except Heatilators website that doesn't even list this model. Help! Is there anything I can replace these with?
btw.. a friend told me I could pull the existing panels out, and use them to make molds to cast my own cement versions of these panels. He said I could use common quickrete to cast the replacement panels. Is this true? I really don't want to burn my house down.
I am new here and honestly, never thought I would find a forum like this for fireplaces but I am glad I did. My wife and I bought a new home 4 years ago and it came with a 36" Heatilator BC36R woodburning fireplace. It's pretty small and not very good quality but it works for what we need so we use it. Well, the inner walls are made of a fibrous terra cotta like material. The side, bottom and back walls are all cracked and degraded and I was told that is dangerous.
I need to replace them but I don't know what these things are called. They are the panels that line the inside of the fireplace. I had a chimney sweep tell me to get a firebacker and I am cool with that but what about the bottom and side walls? I don't know where to get these and the internet has resulted in no results except Heatilators website that doesn't even list this model. Help! Is there anything I can replace these with?
btw.. a friend told me I could pull the existing panels out, and use them to make molds to cast my own cement versions of these panels. He said I could use common quickrete to cast the replacement panels. Is this true? I really don't want to burn my house down.
