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AIR FOR COMBUSTION AND VENTILATION
PRODUCT FEATURES
WARNING: This heater shall not be installed in a
room or space unless the required volume of indoor
combustion air is provided by the method described
in the National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54,
the International Fuel Gas Code, or applicable local
codes. Read the following instructions to insure proper
fresh air for this and other fuel-burning appliances
in your home.
Today’s homes are built more energy efficient than ever. New materials,
increased insulation and new construction methods help reduce heat
loss in homes. Home owners weather strip and caulk around windows
and doors to keep the cold air out and the warm air in. During heating
months, home owners want their homes as airtight as possible.
While it is good to make your home energy efficient, your home
needs to breathe. Fresh air must enter your home. All fuel-burning
appliances need fresh air for proper combustion and ventilation.
Exhaust fans, fireplaces, clothes dryers and fuel burning appliances
draw air from the house to operate. You must provide adequate fresh
air for these appliances. This will insure proper venting of vented
fuel-burning appliances.
PROVIDING ADEQUATE VENTILATION
The following are excerpts from National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/
NFPA 54, Air for Combustion and Ventilation.
All spaces in homes fall into one of the three following ventilation
classifications:
1. Unusually Tight Construction
2. Unconfined Space
3. Confined Space
The information on pages 5 through 6 will help you classify your
space and provide adequate ventilation.
Unusually Tight Construction
The air that leaks around doors and windows may provide enough
fresh air for combustion and ventilation. However, in buildings of
unusually tight construction, you must provide additional fresh air.
Unusually tight construction is defined as construction where:
a. walls and ceilings exposed to the outside atmosphere have a
continuous water vapor retarder with a rating of one perm (6 x
10
-11
kg per pa-sec-m
2
) or less with openings gasketed or sealed
and
b. weather stripping has been added on openable windows and
doors and
c. caulking or sealants are applied to areas such as joints around
window and door frames, between sole plates and floors, be-
tween wall-ceiling joints, between wall panels, at penetrations
for plumbing, electrical and gas lines and at other openings.
If your home meets all of the three criteria above, you must provide
additional fresh air. See Ventilation Air From Outdoors, page 6.
If your home does not meet all of the three criteria above, proceed to
Determining Fresh-Air Flow For Heater Location, page 6.
Confined and Unconfined Space
The National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54 defines a con-
fined space as a space whose volume is less than 50 cubic feet per
1,000 Btu per hour (4.8 m
3
per kw) of the aggregate input rating of
all appliances installed in that space and an unconfined space as a
space whose volume is not less than 50 cubic feet per 1,000 Btu per
hour (4.8 m
3
per kw) of the aggregate input rating of all appliances
installed in that space. Rooms communicating directly with the space
in which the appliances are installed*, through openings not furnished
with doors, are considered a part of the unconfined space.
* Adjoining rooms are communicating only if there are doorless
passageways or ventilation grills between them.
OPERATION
This vent-free fireplace is clean burning. It requires no outside
venting. There is no heat loss out a vent or up a chimney. Heat is
generated by both realistic flames. This heater is designed for vent-
free operation. It has been tested and approved to ANSI Z21.11.2
standard for unvented heaters. State and local codes in some areas
prohibit the use of vent-free heaters.
SAFETY DEVICE
This fireplace has a pilot with an Oxygen Depletion Sensing (ODS)
safety shutoff system. The ODS/pilot is a required feature for vent-free
room heaters. The ODS/pilot system shuts off the fireplace if there is
not enough fresh air.
