A Guide to Install Modern Gas Fireplaces

Posted by Taylor Smith on March 9th, 2018

Modern fireplaces are widely becoming the most important household commodities these days, because of their ability to combine safety features with the aesthetic ones. Building modern gas fireplaces could be challenging as a proper gas line has to be incorporated with other features, which are known mainly by professionals. (Information Credit: http://flarefireplaces.com)

Given below are some of the most important steps to install modern gas fireplaces like the linear or corner gas fireplaces.

1)    Pick a Perfect Location: We must be double sure when choosing the right location for the fireplaces, as they involve gas lines, exhaust pipes etc. Normally it’s advisable to install it in the drawing rooms so that the heat can circulate properly, and they can also take the house decorations while building up. One of the easiest ways to install the modern fireplaces is to install them on an exterior wall so that the venting pipe goes straight through the walls.

2)    Buy a Gas Fireplace: When we are looking for modern gas fireplaces, our buying options are basically limitless as they there are some fantastic types like linear and corner gas fireplaces which will allow you to see the flames from every point of your houses. We just have to remember creating the venting, including piping and wall passes through along while buying them.

3)     Building up a Platform for Our Fireplaces: Normally it’s considered too dangerous to place the fireplaces directly on the floors, and it’s always recommended to use platforms made of ceramic tiles for the same. Normally the modern fireplace manufacturing companies have readymade platforms available which can be availed by you, but we need to consult them to know about the most important types that can suit our houses. Fireplace companies will always provide the best consultation as their aim is to maintain complete safety features in your houses, for which they may advise us not to keep any kinds of combustible elements near the fireplaces.

4)    Proper Positioning: After following steps 1, 2 and 3, our main aim should always be to position the fireplace perfectly in our houses, for enabling them to circulate the heat properly and also preventing the combustible elements to come closer to their structures.

5)    Venting Lines Preparation: We can prepare the exhaust lines in the following steps:

i)    During fitting of the exhaust pipe, we can easily have the idea of where the hole in the walls should be.

ii)    On getting the idea, we should use one pencil to draw out a circle around the pipe on the wall, and then remove the modern gas fireplace platform to drill out the actual hole. We should always remember that the wall pass through should match the size of the vent for proper installation.

6)    Appoint Certified/Licensed Professionals for Gas and Electric Lines Installation: We should always note that we have to create new gas and electric lines for installing the modern gas fireplace types like those of linear or corner gas ones. A licensed professional will always help you to install the fireplaces safely by considering all the safety features like shifting the electrical boxes, attaching the platform to the floor and also checking the level of the same.

The steps given above, are the most necessary steps that all of us should follow while building up a modern gas fireplace in our houses. However, there are some additional designs like adding frames around or even neglecting frames and using glasses for the same are some of the extra features that we can consider for its decoration purpose.