Months of waiting, and kind of anti-climatic.
The guy did not show up till noon. Took him till 10:30 last night, to finish. He was on the roof in the rain, and dark, at 9:30 pm.
Had to remove the surround several times because he kept putting pieces on and then realizing when he would get several on, that one could not go on, without the one next to it, off.
Finally, I just picked up the manual myself and started reading it to him, outloud.
Anyway............ nice guy and I think he did a good job. Just slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Questions.....
1) Where the liner goes into the top of the insert; does that have to be sealed? How won't smoke seep out around it?
2) After he put the top plate on, he had to keep pulling the insert in and out, a ton of times, since he had to keep taking the surround on and off. He told me that the top plate was only held on with the silicone. I am worried that after pulling on the liner so many times, the silicone was pulled away, since it just was done. He did put of course, the wind cap on. Should I get up there and check?
3) He ended up cutting most of the back of the medal heatform/heatilator out with one of the tubes. He would not put a soft or hard block off plate in. After all the homework and deciding to put one in, he told me a soft one would just fall back down on the unit, and no one would do a hard one. So, I look thru the holes above it, and it just is vacant........ open to the flue around the liner. He did not put any of the insulation behind the surround since he said the rest was not sealed. Think that is ok?
The guy did not show up till noon. Took him till 10:30 last night, to finish. He was on the roof in the rain, and dark, at 9:30 pm.
Had to remove the surround several times because he kept putting pieces on and then realizing when he would get several on, that one could not go on, without the one next to it, off.
Finally, I just picked up the manual myself and started reading it to him, outloud.
Anyway............ nice guy and I think he did a good job. Just slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Questions.....
1) Where the liner goes into the top of the insert; does that have to be sealed? How won't smoke seep out around it?
2) After he put the top plate on, he had to keep pulling the insert in and out, a ton of times, since he had to keep taking the surround on and off. He told me that the top plate was only held on with the silicone. I am worried that after pulling on the liner so many times, the silicone was pulled away, since it just was done. He did put of course, the wind cap on. Should I get up there and check?
3) He ended up cutting most of the back of the medal heatform/heatilator out with one of the tubes. He would not put a soft or hard block off plate in. After all the homework and deciding to put one in, he told me a soft one would just fall back down on the unit, and no one would do a hard one. So, I look thru the holes above it, and it just is vacant........ open to the flue around the liner. He did not put any of the insulation behind the surround since he said the rest was not sealed. Think that is ok?
