Desa VMH10TPB AIR for Combustion and Ventilation, Providing Adequate Ventilation

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AIR FOR COMBUSTION AND VENTILATION

Providing Adequate Ventilation

Determining Fresh-Air Flow for Fireplace Location

AIR FOR COMBUSTION AND VENTILATION

WARNING: This fireplace shall not be installed in a confined space or unusually tight construction unless provisions are provided for adequate com- bustion and ventilation air. Read the following in- structions to insure proper fresh air for this and other fuel-burning appliances in your home.

Today’s homes are built more energy efficient than ever. New mate- rials, increased insulation, and new construction methods help reduce heat loss in homes. Home owners weather strip and caulk around windows and doors to keep the cold air out and the warm air in. During heating months, home owners want their homes as airtight as possible.

While it is good to make your home energy efficient, your home needs to breathe. Fresh air must enter your home. All fuel-burning appliances need fresh air for proper combustion and ventilation.

Exhaust fans, fireplaces, clothes dryers, and fuel burning appliances draw air from the house to operate. You must provide adequate fresh air for these appliances. This will insure proper venting of vented fuel-burning appliances.

PROVIDING ADEQUATE VENTILATION

The following are excerpts from National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54, Section 5.3, Air for Combustion and Ventilation.

All spaces in homes fall into one of the three following ventilation classifications:

1.Unusually Tight Construction

2.Unconfined Space

3.Confined Space

The information on pages 6 through 8 will help you classify your space and provide adequate ventilation.

Unusually Tight Construction

The air that leaks around doors and windows may provide enough fresh air for combustion and ventilation. However, in buildings of unusually tight construction, you must provide additional fresh air.

Unusually tight construction is defined as construction where:

a.walls and ceilings exposed to the outside atmosphere have a continuous water vapor retarder with a rating of one perm (6 x 10-11kg per pa-sec-m2) or less with openings gasketed or sealed and

b.weather stripping has been added on openable win- dows and doors and

c.caulking or sealants are applied to areas such as joints around window and door frames, between sole plates and floors, between wall-ceiling joints, between wall panels, at penetrations for plumbing, electrical, and gas lines, and at other openings.

If your home meets all of these three criteria, you must provide additional fresh air. See Ventilation Air From Outdoors, page 8.

If your home does not meet all of the three criteria above, proceed to Determining Fresh-Air Flow For Fireplace Location, below.

Confined and Unconfined Space

The National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54 defines a confined space as a space whose volume is less than 50 cubic feet per 1,000 Btu per hour (4.8 m3 per kw) of the aggregate input rating of all appliances installed in that space and an unconfined space as a space whose volume is not less than 50 cubic feet per 1,000 Btu per hour (4.8 m3 per kw) of the aggregate input rating of all appliances installed in that space. Rooms communicating directly with the space in which the appliances are installed*, through openings not furnished with doors, are considered a part of the unconfined space.

*Adjoining rooms are communicating only if there are doorless passageways or ventilation grills between them.

DETERMINING FRESH-AIR FLOW FOR FIREPLACE LOCATION

Determining if You Have a Confined or Unconfined Space

Use this work sheet to determine if you have a confined or unconfined space.

Space: Includes the room in which you will install fireplace plus any adjoining rooms with doorless passageways or ventilation grills between the rooms.

1.Determine the volume of the space (length x width x height). Length x Width x Height = ___________ cu. ft. (volume of space)

Example: Space size 16 ft. (length) x 14 ft. (width) x 8 ft. (ceiling height) = 1792 cu. ft. (volume of space)

If additional ventilation to adjoining room is supplied with grills or open- ings, add the volume of these rooms to the total volume of the space.

2.Multiply the space volume by 20 to determine the maximum Btu/Hr the space can support.

__________ (volume of space) x 20 = (Maximum Btu/Hr the space

can support)

Example: 1792 cu. ft. (volume of space) x 20 = 35,840 (maximum Btu/Hr the space can support)

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Contents OWNER’S Operation and Installation Manual What to do if YOU Smell GASTable of Contents Safety InformationProduct Identification Vent-Free Compact Classic Hearth FireplaceLocal Codes Optional Remote Control AccessoriesProduct Features UnpackingAssembly Assembling FireplaceAIR for Combustion and Ventilation Providing Adequate VentilationDetermining FRESH-AIR Flow for Fireplace Location Ventilation AIR Ventilation Air From Inside BuildingInstallation Ventilation Air From OutdoorsFireplace Clearances Installation ItemsCheck GAS Type Minimum Clearance to Combustible MaterialsBUILT-IN Fireplace Installation Rough Opening for Installing in WallOptional Mantel Installation Mantel Clearances for Built-In InstallationRemoving Upper Louver Assembly and Branch Support Installing Blower AccessoryAssembling Brass Trim Brass trim shipped with mantel For Built-In Installation Valve cover shield. see FigureRemoving Upper Louver Assembly Extension CordInstalling Blower Assembly Removing Valve Cover ShieldValve Cover Shield Switch PlateScrew Connecting to GAS Supply Attaching Wood Base to Solid FloorConnecting Equipment Shutoff Valve to Heater Control Installation Items NeededPressure Testing gas Supply Piping system Checking GAS ConnectionsOptional Wireless HAND-HELD Remote Control Accessories Pressure Testing Fireplace Gas ConnectionsInstalling Receiver Installing 9-Volt Battery in Hand-Held Remote Control Unit Optional Wall Mounted Thermostat GWMT1Installing LOG SET and Screen Back View of Thermostat BaseOperating Fireplace Lighting InstructionsTo Turn OFF GAS to Appliance Manual Lighting ProcedureREMOTE-READY Models For Your Safety Read Before Lighting Thermostat Control OperationPropane/LPGasPilot Natural Gas Pilot Thermostat Control Operation Optional Remote OperationGWMT1 Wall Mounted Thermostat Optional Ghrcta Series OperationBurner Flame Pattern GWMS2 Wall Mounted Switch OptionalInspecting Burners Pilot Flame PatternLOG SET Cleaning MaintenanceCleaning Burner Injector Holder and Pilot AIR Inlet Hole CabinetTroubleshooting Observed Problem Possible Cause RemedyObserved Problem Possible Cause RemedyGas leak. See Warning statement Technical Service SpecificationsService Hints When Gas Pressure Is Too LowParts not Under Warranty Replacement Parts Wiring DiagramParts Under Warranty Remote-Ready Models OnlyIllustrated Parts Breakdown THERMOSTAT-CONTROLLED Models VMH10TPB, VMH10TNBParts List THERMOSTAT-CONTROLLED ModelsREMOTE-READY Models Parts List Accessories WALL-MOUNT ON/OFF Switch GWMS2 Cleaning KIT GCKWALL-MOUNT Thermostat Switch GWMT1 Receiver and HAND-HELD Remote Control KIT GhrcFor . .com Owners Registration Form Postage Required 107032 Warranty Information Limited Warranty VENT-FREE Compact Classic Hearth Fireplace

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