A Guide On How To Install An Electric Fireplace Insert

So you’ve finally decided to bring your fireplace up to speed with the rest of your living room and get an electric fireplace insert. Gone is the dirty, messy coal and wood burning fireplace and in is the clean beautifully shaped electric counterpart. But now you need to get it installed so you can enjoy it. Many people may think this is too tricky a job to do themselves and fork out a wad of cash to pay someone to fit it for them. The truth is you would be paying them to do something you can easily do yourself.

The first step is to take a large heavy piece of cardboard and place it onto the hearth. Then very gently place the insert onto the cardboard, and slowly slide the unit to the rear wall of the fireplace, making sure that the insert is central within the space. The next step is to take a flue liner, slide it from the top of your chimney and attach it to the flue liner adapter which is situated on the top of the electric fireplace insert. Secure the flue liner in place with screws and remove any excess liner at the top of the chimney . Once that’s done, get some chalk and mark the position of the insert in correlation with the front and sides of the fireplace.

Now what you need to do is with care slide the electric fireplace insert out giving yourself enough room to get to the screw holes on the top of the unit and also on the sides. Now you need to attach the top panel to the top of the insert using the screws provided making sure you have enough room to get in there. Position the panel so that the chalk lines are hidden from sight, and then tighten the screws up. Do exactly the same with the side panels, and then put some chimney caulk into any gaps between the panels themselves and the unit and the original fireplace. What this does is seals the gaps and makes it much more heat efficient. The final part is to correctly place the insulation strips on the back of the panels and then slide the electric fireplace back into place.

If you’ve done it right, you should now be switching on and enjoying your brand new fireplace. Although it sounds hard, once you get on with it, it couldn’t be simpler.

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