Hello all. This is my first time post, and I am hoping to get some help from this site with my current situation:
8 years ago we built our house with an unfinished basement. On the main level, we installed a Heat N Glo Northstar for our primary heat. I knew that someday we would like a gas fireplace in the basement, so we had our builder stub a b-vent into the basement along side the woodburner chimney for future.
The time to finish my basement is now, and I ordered an Empire 42" Premium B-vent fireplace, 30K BTUH for the basement. After the fireplace arrived, I hopped up on a ladder to start measurements for the B-vent connection and noticed that the B-vent is not what I typically see at the DIY stores. I am learning that what I have is likely the HnG DVP pipe, which is proprietary.
The Empire fireplace has a 6" connection, and the existing HnG DVP stubbed down into my basement is around 5-3/4" for the inside pipe. Is there an adapter available that I can use for making the connection from the Empire to the DVP, or am i looking at replacing my entire B-vent from the basement to the chimney termination?
Please help if you know something about this. I hope I didn't make an expensive mistake assuming that B-vent was universal.
Thanks in advance for all responses.
Jeff
8 years ago we built our house with an unfinished basement. On the main level, we installed a Heat N Glo Northstar for our primary heat. I knew that someday we would like a gas fireplace in the basement, so we had our builder stub a b-vent into the basement along side the woodburner chimney for future.
The time to finish my basement is now, and I ordered an Empire 42" Premium B-vent fireplace, 30K BTUH for the basement. After the fireplace arrived, I hopped up on a ladder to start measurements for the B-vent connection and noticed that the B-vent is not what I typically see at the DIY stores. I am learning that what I have is likely the HnG DVP pipe, which is proprietary.
The Empire fireplace has a 6" connection, and the existing HnG DVP stubbed down into my basement is around 5-3/4" for the inside pipe. Is there an adapter available that I can use for making the connection from the Empire to the DVP, or am i looking at replacing my entire B-vent from the basement to the chimney termination?
Please help if you know something about this. I hope I didn't make an expensive mistake assuming that B-vent was universal.
Thanks in advance for all responses.
Jeff
