Dutchwest Seneca

Safe Ways to Reduce Clearances

Your stove has specific clearance requirements that have been established through careful research and testing to UL and ULC standards.

Clearance requirements have been established to meet every installation possibility, and they involve the combination of basic variables:

•When the stove has no listed heat shield

•When the stove has a listed heat shield

•When the wall has no heat shield

•When the wall has a heat shield

•When the stove has a double-wall chimney connector.

•When the stove has a single-wall connector wit heat shields, or without heat shields.

In general, the greatest clearance is required when you locate a stove with no heat shield near a wall with no heat shield. The least clearance is required when both the stove and the wall have heat shields. Reducing a stove clearance may require a listed heat shield on the chimney connector as well, or a double-wall connector.

Clearances may be reduced only by means approved by the regulatory authority and in accordance with the clearances listed in this manual. The charts and sample installations that follow list all the clearances required for the various installation configurations of Seneca.

Wall Shields

One way to reduce clearances is with a wall shield constructed of 24 gauge or heavier sheet metal, or of another noncombustible material such as 1/2" (13 mm) insulation board such as Durock¨ or Wonderboard¨, or common brick Òlaid on flat,Ó with the 3¹⁄₂" (90 mm) side down.

Shields must be spaced out from the combustible surface 1" (25 mm) on noncombustible spacers, as in Figure 13. The spacers should not be directly behind the stove or chimney connector.

Air must be able to flow between the wall and the shield. At least 50% of the bottom 1" (25 mm) of the shield must be open, and the shield must be open at the top. Metal screening across the top will keep small stray objects from being trapped behind the shield. (Fig. 13)

Fireplace and Mantel Trim Shields

A fireplace installation requires special clearance between the side of the stove and the right and left walls, between the side of the stove and the decorative side trim on the fireplace face, and between the top of the stove and the mantel.

Air Flow

 

Screen

 

Wall Shield

 

Stud Wall

 

Framing

 

Noncombus-

 

tible Spacers

Shield

and Fasteners

 

 

Metal Spacer

Drywall

 

Air Flow

 

ST248

Fig. 13 Approved wall shield construction.

Noncombustible shields installed 1Ó (25mm) away from the combustible surface on noncombustible spacers, called ventilated shields, may be used to reduce clearances.

To protect a mantel from the

 

heat of a stove in a fireplace

 

installation, use a custom-

 

made ventilated mantel

 

shield that is at least 48Ó

1" (25mm)

(1220mm) long, centered

 

over the stove. (Fig. 14)

 

Ventilated shields for side

 

trim must extend the full

 

length of the trim.

 

An unprotected mantel (ÒAÓ,

 

 

1/4" (6mm)

 

 

Fig. 15) cannot be more than

 

 

ST501

9Ó (230mm) deep and must

 

 

 

have a minimum clearance

Fig. 14 A custom-formed

of 39Ó (991mm), measured

mantel shield.

from the stoveÕs top plate. With a ventilated shield, this clearance may be reduced safely to 23Ó (584mm).

Unprotected top trim (B) protruding 9Ó (230mm) or less from the face of the fireplace must be a minimum of 39Ó (991mm) from the stoveÕs top surface. With a ventilated trim shield, this clearance may be reduced safely to 23Ó (584mm).

Unprotected side trim (C) that protrudes 2Ó (50mm) or less from the face of a fireplace must have a minimum clearance of 14Ó (356mm), measured from the stoveÕs top side edge. With a ventilated trim shield, the clearance may be reduced safely to 6Ó (152mm). If the trim extends more than 2Ó (50mm), it is subject to the requirements for wall clearance.

The charts and sample installations that follow list all the clearances required for the various installation configurations of the Seneca.

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2170 specifications

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