What's Included

Gas fireplace vents in Cameron City, in detail

Air space between the vent and the framing

DuraVent's direct vent instructions open with a warning that a major cause of vent-related fires is failure to maintain required clearances, meaning air spaces, to combustible materials. Its Type B instructions require a 1 inch air space to combustibles around its round B-vent, regardless of pipe diameter.

Direct vent clearances vary by appliance and are set in its manual. Wherever the vent serving your Cameron City fireplace can be reached, our team checks the space around it for wood, insulation or stored items that have crept too close, and explains what has to move.

Where the termination may sit

A wall termination has to keep its distance from openings and surfaces. Table 503.8 of the Florida fuel gas code sets direct-vent terminal clearances, including 12 inches above grade and a distance from openable windows and doors that grows with the appliance's input. DuraVent's instructions give their own figures, such as 12 inches above a deck or balcony and 18 inches below a ventilated soffit.

The appliance manual can set different distances again, and the installation has to meet every figure that applies. We measure the termination on your Cameron City home against the manual for the installed unit and the code, and we explain any shortfall and how it can be corrected.

One vent for each appliance

DuraVent's direct vent instructions require the gas appliance and vent system to be vented directly outside and never attached to a chimney serving a separate solid fuel or gas-burning appliance. Each direct vent gas appliance must use its own separate vent system, and common vent systems are prohibited.

Older additions and conversions can tie a vent into whatever passage was already there. Our team traces where the vent from your Cameron City fireplace goes and confirms it runs on its own to the outside.

Carbon monoxide alarms and gas fireplaces

When a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, everyone leaves the house, 911 is called from outside, and nobody goes back in until responders say it is safe. The vent is looked at only after that immediate danger has been handled.

Florida law (section 553.885, Florida Statutes) calls for an approved carbon monoxide alarm within 10 feet of each room used for sleeping in buildings constructed after July 1, 2008 that have a fireplace or a fossil-fuel appliance. On vent visits in Cameron City, our team reminds you to test the alarms in your home.