Monessen Hearth Installing Line for Gas Logs, 424WBST Designer Woodburning Fireplaces, 87D1506

Installing Line for Gas Logs

Monessen Fireplaces are designed to accept a 1/2" (13 mm) gas line for installation of an approved gas appliance. (MHSC manufactures a wide variety of gas logs for use in Monessen fireplaces.)

Be sure to have the appliance installed in accordance with building codes.

Gas connection may enter from either left or right side of the fireplace.

Locate appropriate gas line in the outer casing of fire- place and remove insulation from gas line tube. (Fig. 29)

From inside the fireplace, locate the knockout on the firebrick -- be sure you are on the appropriate or "gas line" side of the fireplace. Using a flat bladed screw- driver or small chisel and hammer, carefully tap around the knockout until it loosens and falls out.

Install 1/2" (13 mm) certified gas pipe through opening. After gas pipe installation is complete, use insulation that was removed from gas line tube to repack space around the pipe. Material should be inserted from outside of the fireplace and packed tightly to totally seal between the pipe and tube.

Note: Gas pipe should not come in contact with any wood structures until it has reached a point at least 1" (25 mm) away from fireplace side.

Note: Local codes may require removal of flue damper when installing any type of gas appliance in a fireplace.

NOTE: When installing an ANSI Z21.11.2 ventless ap- pliance, the finishing material used for the mantel must be rated at 250°F or greater.

BTU input of a gas appliance installed in fireplace should be rated less than 100,000 BTU/Hr.

Gas pipe installation is intended for connection to a decorative gas appliance only when (1.) incorporating an automatic shutoff device and (2.) complying with the Standard for Decorative Gas Appliances for Installation in Vented Fireplaces (ANSI Z21.60) or CSA draft re- quirements for Gas-Fired Log Lighters for Woodburning Fireplaces (Draft No. 4, August 1993).

Decorative gas appliance should be installed in accor- dance with the National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/

NFPA 54 (latest edition).

424WBST Designer Woodburning Fireplaces

		Fireplace Top View
Hole in
Outer		1"	Supply Line
Casing
Gas Line			Repack Insu-
Tube			lation
			Ceramic
	Hole in		Knockout
			(Both Sides
	Outer Cas-
			on STR)
	ing
			FP716
Fig. 29	Gas line access.

CAUTION: WHEN USING DECORATIVE GAS APPLIANCE, FLUE DAMPER MUST BE SET IN FULLY OPEN POSITION. IF YOU HAVE GLASS DOORS ON THE FIREPLACE, THEY MUST ALSO BE FULLY OPENED.

WARNING: DO NOT OPERATE AN UNVENTED GAS LOG SET IN THIS FIRE- PLACE WITH THE CHIMNEY REMOVED.

WARNING: WHEN INSTALLING AN UNVENTED GAS LOG SET, THE MHSC MODEL CABL OR CABR 4" ADJUSTABLE HOOD MUST BE USED.

If installing an unvented gas log set, refer to statement below:

Only unvented gas log sets which have been found to comply with the Standard for Unvented Room Heaters, ANSI Z21.11.2, are to be installed in this fireplace.

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