Hi All,
I have been lurking here for a while trying to decide which fireplace insert I should buy and have decided on a Clydesdale.
As usual, I reserach this stuff to death, and as big DIY, I usually find that no installer who works on your house will do it anywhere near the best way possible or even know half of what I am talking about after all my research..
I have a few questions:
1. I have read that many people believe that a block off plate will help stop any draft from coming past the stove and out the chimney, thus keeping maximium draft for the insert. However, if the SS liner is connected to the insert on one end, and to a cap at the top of the chimney, where exactly would the draw be coming from? Unless the doors of the insert are open....
2. Same with insulation. I can see where the ss liner could heat and cool and cause more cresote issues, but I have also read that the air between the ss liner and chimney acts as insulation and as long as connection between the stove and cap ar good, its not required.
3. Finally, everyone I talk to wants close to $1,000 plus another $500 - $600 for the liner when doing an install ( and will not insulate or use a block off plate). ....why on earth is it so expensive to run a SS liner from the top of the chimney to the insert and clamp it???????? I really would rather do this myself, its just that I have no way to move a 550 pound hunck of metal...course maybe thats where the $1,000 comes in.
Oh..one more thing...my room is 18 feet wide. and my LCD TV is angled in the corner about 30 inches away from the insert....its not really a combustable, so I assume its OK?????
I appreciatte your thougths and I assume that shortly I will be as addicted to the fire as you all........
I have been lurking here for a while trying to decide which fireplace insert I should buy and have decided on a Clydesdale.
As usual, I reserach this stuff to death, and as big DIY, I usually find that no installer who works on your house will do it anywhere near the best way possible or even know half of what I am talking about after all my research..
I have a few questions:
1. I have read that many people believe that a block off plate will help stop any draft from coming past the stove and out the chimney, thus keeping maximium draft for the insert. However, if the SS liner is connected to the insert on one end, and to a cap at the top of the chimney, where exactly would the draw be coming from? Unless the doors of the insert are open....
2. Same with insulation. I can see where the ss liner could heat and cool and cause more cresote issues, but I have also read that the air between the ss liner and chimney acts as insulation and as long as connection between the stove and cap ar good, its not required.
3. Finally, everyone I talk to wants close to $1,000 plus another $500 - $600 for the liner when doing an install ( and will not insulate or use a block off plate). ....why on earth is it so expensive to run a SS liner from the top of the chimney to the insert and clamp it???????? I really would rather do this myself, its just that I have no way to move a 550 pound hunck of metal...course maybe thats where the $1,000 comes in.
Oh..one more thing...my room is 18 feet wide. and my LCD TV is angled in the corner about 30 inches away from the insert....its not really a combustable, so I assume its OK?????
I appreciatte your thougths and I assume that shortly I will be as addicted to the fire as you all........