Customer complains of cold air around insert
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weatherguy
Minister of Fire
Chas0218
Minister of Fire
Where are you guys seeing a problem with the liner? The problem I see is the insert in a hacked up zero clearance firebox
The liner looks ok, although barely seated..
They hacked that thing all up! Looks like they even took the bricks out of it, you can’t do that. It needs removed.
They hacked that thing all up! Looks like they even took the bricks out of it, you can’t do that. It needs removed.
The cold air source is coming from 2 places. The air cooled pipe allows air to flow freely, and I’ll bet there’s no insulation around the fireplace. It’s all too common, builders don’t think it needs insulated behind it, and most installers are too lazy, or crunched on time to wait on it or insist on it. We end up insulating a good part of them because we know it won’t happen.
The cold air flowing through is what’s keeping the header from catching fire!
blacktail
Minister of Fire
Chas0218
Minister of Fire
I circled in red it looked like the liner has a hole torn in it or something going on there at least.
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Hogwildz
Minister of Fire
Looks like a liner into an adapter, into some sort of short flexible liner or elbow? Are you sure that is the liner messed up, and not part of the old firebox where they cut/hacked it up? Needs block off plate to start with, there is most of your cold air intrusion.
No it all needs torn out and start from scratch. It is stuffed into a zc box that they hacked to pieces. Nothing wrong with the liner just everything else
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