Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Large Vent-free set?

QUESTION: Do you make a vent-free set with logs 42 to 48 inches long?

ANSWER: Your fireplace is rather large for a vent-free gas log set. The national standard for vent-free heaters limits the maximum gas consumption to 40,000 BTU/hour. This same amount of gas is our limit in designing vent-free gas log sets, regardless of the size of the set. In order to get an adequate flame, our 30" sets use the same burner system as our 24" sets. Any "stretching" of the burner wider than our 24" size would result in unacceptably small flames. I know of no manufacturer who produces a vent-free set larger than 30”.

Should you decide to install a vent-free set into your fireplace, I caution you about having too great of heat expectations. This large enclosure will absorb a great deal of the heat produced before you start to feel any heat benefit in the room.

If your fireplace properly vents all products of combustion (no spillage of smoke into the room), we have several log sets in the sizes you desire, which will give you a full, woodlike flame display and a large bed of glowing, radiant embers.