Hi, I am new here and found the forum looking for more info on my new insert.
I was originaly going to go with a PE super, but I found a crazy deal on a older (1991) 1600 Osburn insert. I cleaned it up replaced the bricks and gave her a paint job.
I have the fireplace all preped, cleaned, cracks filled and damper removed, and sometime this week my liner kit arives.
I ended up having to go with a 5" liner, 5 out of six installers I talked to were going to use the 5" in my set up and one was going to squish down a 6" to make it fit.
I will be instaling everything this week and monday the inspector will be here to certify the set up, so all in it will cost me 600 bucks.
I think I am going to buy 2 cords of wood to start, then start chopping my own as we have lots of places to take dead fallen or standing wood up here.
My questions I do have are 1, for the first while should I be burning several small fires to cure the paint, or should I build a normal one and just run it dampered down?
and second does anyone with this insert have any tips or advice for me to make this work good?
my main purpose for this is to have a fire in the evenings during the week and maybe more on the weekends, to warm up the main living room so I can leave the furnace temp lower. I like a fire burning in the firplace, but due to some repairs I had to make in the firplace and such from a previous gas install, I decided to go with an insert and get some of the heat from it.
thanks
Steve
I was originaly going to go with a PE super, but I found a crazy deal on a older (1991) 1600 Osburn insert. I cleaned it up replaced the bricks and gave her a paint job.
I have the fireplace all preped, cleaned, cracks filled and damper removed, and sometime this week my liner kit arives.
I ended up having to go with a 5" liner, 5 out of six installers I talked to were going to use the 5" in my set up and one was going to squish down a 6" to make it fit.
I will be instaling everything this week and monday the inspector will be here to certify the set up, so all in it will cost me 600 bucks.
I think I am going to buy 2 cords of wood to start, then start chopping my own as we have lots of places to take dead fallen or standing wood up here.
My questions I do have are 1, for the first while should I be burning several small fires to cure the paint, or should I build a normal one and just run it dampered down?
and second does anyone with this insert have any tips or advice for me to make this work good?
my main purpose for this is to have a fire in the evenings during the week and maybe more on the weekends, to warm up the main living room so I can leave the furnace temp lower. I like a fire burning in the firplace, but due to some repairs I had to make in the firplace and such from a previous gas install, I decided to go with an insert and get some of the heat from it.
thanks
Steve