Hearthlist Digest #386 - Tuesday, December 14, 1999
 
suggestions wanted
  by "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
and another thing...
  by "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: suggestions wanted
From: "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:15:29 -0500
 
Customer wants a "free-standing" fireplace for a mobile home in which he
can burn Dura-Flame type logs. Malm units do not appear to be mobile-home
approved. VC stoves can be, but one is not supposed to burn anything but
wood in them.
He cannot have gas in his mobile home park, and he definitely doesn't want
electric. Any other suggestions?
 
Noel Gilmore
Autumn Moon Fireplaces
 
 

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Subject: and another thing...
From: "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:15:47 -0500
 
I gather that those of us in hurricane-prone areas are beginning to hear
from our building depts. that flues and chases now have to either be
certified to withstand 110 mph winds by the manufacturer or by an engineer
(that's the certification by the manufacturer, not the wind by the
manufacturer). So when we tell our customers they need to pull a permit =
for
existing home installations of pre-fab fireplaces or stoves, the building
dept. tells them that they need this certification for the flue exiting =
the
roof with a flashing. Am I correct in assuming that no one's Class A
chimney system carries such a guarantee?
 
If this is so, it really puts us out of the business of doing existing =
home
installations unless the customer is willing to pay both for the chase to
be built AND for an engineer to approve the plan. We put our license in
jeopardy if we do an install without the home owner having pulled a =
permit.
 
Does anyone believe that manufacturers would go to the trouble of =
achieving
this certification for those few states (FL, maybe the Carolinas, I've
heard) currently requiring it?
 
Noel