Installing my Ventless fireplace

[Richard]

Wifey wanted this for Christmas but other issues kept it from happenig like that.

None the less, the wheels are in motion. This is a propane ventless fireplace, in the bedroom (10,000 btu) and is remote/thermostatically operated, as well as manual of course.

To cut down the pictures, I didn't show the "first" installation of it where the wifey said she wanted "this & that" and I had no clue how to accomplish it all.

After SHE realized she was asking a bit much, she agreed to redo it and I tore it all down and put it up this way. It turned out to be MUCH easier to install this way, than the way she'd wanted.

 

[Richard]

Installing the stuff on front that the marble will be glued to

 

[Richard]

Wifey attaches the marble (for the second time) this is the part she redid and I had to rip the first part out, fix the backer board and let her reinstall the new format

 

[Richard]

Cutting the plywood was a REAL pain in the hiney as I had to cut it in one piece, cut it to fit into a corner with mitres on each side, AND cut the hole for fireplace all by freehand.

I DID buy a new Milwaukee circular saw /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif and a sharp as all getout Freud blade at the recommendation of the HD dude. That blade did a BEAUTIFUL cut on the plywood (3/4 Birch)

 

[Richard]

The semi finished fireplace.

Wifey still has to figure out some of the details she wants on it, but that's her issue, I'm just the grunt man.

The top isn't installed yet

 

[Richard]

Some of the trim pieces butting up the the fireplace itself, were too tall. The only way we could get them to fit was to shave them down.,

Wifey suggested I hand hold them and use a jigsaw /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I told her I'd use the rotozip as I'd mentioned on this site a while back (rotozip upside down inside bucket with "table" on top to work on)

I used the straight edge I bought for plywood cuts and did a nice job.

 

[Richard]

more

 

[Richard]

The part I was trimming. Since the trimmed edge went against the fireplace, the rough edge didn't matter

 

[DocHeb]

Nice job - looks pretty cozy already.

 

[buckle97]

Looks great! I just wish I had enough room in my bedroom for one of those!

Lawrence