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Installing Your Insert Pellet Stove

VENTING INTO AN EXISTING CHIMNEY

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INSERT STOVE VENTED INTO

EXISTING CHIMNEY

andlor pipe

support

The Quest insert may be installed in a masonry

or factory built fireplace as shown below. When

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installing into the existing chimney, the exhaust

venting system should be extended to the top of

the chimney as shown below. However.

If

the

vent pipe is not extended to the top of the

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chimney, it must extend a minimum of

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inches ahove the chimney damper.

If the

optional horizontal exhaust duct is used, a mini-

mum of 10 ft. of

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inch vent pipe must be used.

Ensure that the end of any flex pipe used in this

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type of installation is not blocked, when termi-

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nated inside the existing flue.

Note: Any instal-

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lation that does not run all the way to the top

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of the chimney is not recommended.

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We also recommend that the fireplace cavity be

thoroughly cleaned and sealed with latex paint or

masonry sealer. The paint will seal in old soot

and creosote and help prevent fine dust from

being pulled into the stove's convection fan and

blown into the house.

IMPORTANT

NOTE:

Make sure the chimney

and

fqlace

are

clean

and

free

of soot and ashes

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installation

begins. Failure

to

do so

may result in the transfer

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of soot into the mom.