SET-UP Instructions

Attention: Two people are required to assemble indoor chimenea.

1.Remove packing material from top of box.

2.Lift stack casting section out and set aside.

3.Remove remaining items and packing from inside body casting.

4.Lift body casting out of box and sit on ﬂat surface near desired ﬁnal location. Leave adequate room around body casting to work. Locking ring for stack casting should be facing down. Two people are required to remove casting from shipping carton.

5.Remove washers and nuts from three legs. Install the three legs using the bolts, washers and nuts provided. Reach through the opening in the body casting to tighten the leg bolts securely. See Figure 4.

Figure 4

6.Remove the bottom block off plate from stack casting. The bottom block off plate is a half-moon shaped, 11 inch length, black metal plate located within the stack casting.

7.Place bottom block off plate onto exterior, bottom of body casting. Align clearance holes in bottom block off plate with bolt holes in body casting.

8.Place a lock washer followed by a ﬂat washer onto 3/8 inch bolt. You will need to use three (3) 3/8 inch bolts to attach bottom block off plate to body casting.

Attention: Start each bolt partially into body casting in order to properly align bolts for attachment of bottom block off plate to body casting.

9.Invert the body casting to sit on its legs.

10. Holding the burner support plate securely with two hands, tip the burner assembly to a position where it will ﬁt through the front door opening. Guide the gas valve through the large hole in the bottom of the body casting. The burner support plate will come to rest on the three ﬂat mounting tabs that protrude from the body casting wall and the gas valve should be approximately centered between the left leg and the right leg.

11. Align clearance hole on burner support plate with threaded hole in front of ﬂat mounting tab. Attach burner support plate to mounting tab with one (1) 1/4-20 x 3/8" screw. Install (2) 3-1/2" bolts through burner support bottom, casting bottom and block off plate and secure with (2) nuts.

12. One (1) keyhole will be adjacent to front side (opening) on body casting. Two (2) keyholes will be adjacent to back side

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(rear) on body casting. Attention: If the keyhole positions are reversed on body casting DO NOT attempt to operate the indoor chimenea. An unsafe overheating condition of the wall could occur. Contact your qualiﬁed serviceman or dealer for replacement parts. See Figure 5.

Figure 5

13.Located on bottom of stack casting are three securing bolts. Unscrew securing bolts approximately 1/2".Attention: Do not remove securing bolts from bottom of stack casting. Place the stack casting on top of the body casting aligning the three securing bolts on the stack casting with the large end of the "keyhole" slots on the securing ring. Once the stack casting is in place, twist to lock it down. See Figure 6.

14. To install door screen, hook top of door screen onto body casting. Raise door screen upward. Pivot bottom of door screen inward to hook bottom of door screen, and then lower screen. Do not operate without screen properly installed.

Figure 6

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CHBR-16-3 specifications

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