Hearthlist Digest #402 - Thursday, January 20, 2000
 
Re: Liability - 01/19/00
  by "Skip Jackson" <[email protected]>
Flexible DV flu
  by <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: Re: Liability - 01/19/00
From: "Skip Jackson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:30:11 -0500
 
Dear Tony,
	If you do not install the products you sell, how do expect
to know how they will work in a customer's home?  But it is just
as well, because a ceiling is easier to replace than the woodwork
around all the windows in a sun room.
Skip Jackson
Fireside Engineering
Cincinnati Ohio
 
 

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Subject: Flexible DV flu
From: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:31:00 -0500
 
RE: ........Does anybody have much real experience with the flexible flues
offered by companies such as Lennox>>>>>>>....Our installers claim
that they do not care for it because they have heard>>>>>.....
 
Jeff,  We had the same feelings among our crews when we first had the 
opportunity to become a Lennox dealer. We "had heard" too .....
We have been duravent distributors for several years and our main 
fireplaces were FMI >> which also uses the duravent chimney in a 4/7 
configuration..... so the apprehension  was high.  and the fear from 
both our installers and sales staff  about continuos flex was that it 
would be a bad situation.... Hard to work with, hard to make a secure 
connection.... and what about a sag in the vent???   It went so far 
as to consider not offering the Lennox flex vent and to only offer 
their cut and paste rigid option >>(we used to do the cut and paste 
CFM vent #$@*%& system)
But because we liked what we saw when we visited the Lennox plant and 
we were impressed with their professional approach to installation 
........ we tried a few.  It was a snap once we figured out what we 
needed to stock.  The flex is expandable in length and can go around 
that stud or floor joist without "over-offsetting"   or having to 
"cut and box".  Now our installers appreciate the ease of the install 
and we have figured out the quirks and time savers. (Make sure you 
use the Lennox pipe pack it eliminates the silicone mess and gives 
you a good seal)
They still prefer duravent to the old cut and paste systems still out 
there but I don't think they have a preference over  installing the 
flex system or a duravent system anymore.
Ken Fulgione
 
 
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