Valcourt Beaumont Installation And Operation Manual - page 15
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Installation with an 7 in. EXCEL chimney (Figure # 8)
Installing your fireplace with a masonry chimney still requires using EXCEL chimney from the top of
the fireplace to the wall where it will connect to a listed liner that will run up inside the masonry chimney.
The stainless steel liner should be fitted inside the clay liner all the way to the top of the masonry
chimney. It is not meant to replace the clay liner. You can use either the EXCEL liner or any other listed liner or
flexible liner to ULC-S635, ULC-S640 or UL777.
Special care is to be taken to make sure that you have a good solid connection between the EXCEL
chimney and the liner. A masonry adaptor (FO-FDM7) was designed specially for that purpose and is available
from your RSF dealer. It will attach to the liner with 3 stainless rivets (provided) and to the EXCEL chimney
with 3 screws (provided).
After mortaring in place, the connection between the EXCEL chimney and the liner should not be
visible in order to isolate the heat released through the liner from the fireplace enclosure.
You must install at least one 18” length of EXCEL chimney after the EXCEL chimney elbow. The
uppermost part of the excel chimney- where it enters the masonry chimney – must be a minimum of 12” from
the ceiling.
NOTE: If the ceiling is high enough, you can install one or more EXCEL chimney lengths directly on the
fireplace before the elbow.
To make the hole through the masonry chimney and make the connection to the fireplace, we
recommend that you follow these steps:
1. Sight-in and mark the outline of where the EXCEL chimney will penetrate the masonry chimney.
2. Using a large (¾”-2”) masonry drill bit, drill a hole exactly in the center of the oval outline. With a masonry
hammer and drill, slowly enlarge the hole to the size required. Remember to work from the center out. Be
especially careful with the clay liner behind the brick because three sides of it must stay in place.
3. Bring the stainless steel liner down from the top of the chimney. If you are using a rigid liner you will need
enough room to secure an elbow to it with at least two screws. If it difficult to install rigid stainless steel
liner in the existing masonry chimney or for a masonry chimney with less than 10” x 10” inside, a listed
stainless steel flexible liner can be used along with a flexible/ rigid adaptor (LM-LAF) available from your
ICC dealer.
4. Install the liner elbow and masonry adaptor on the lower end of the liner.
5. Move the fireplace forward enough to install the EXCEL chimney on the fireplace (elbow and length) then
move the fireplace back into position as you connect the masonry adaptor to the EXCEL chimney.
NOTE: The stainless steel flexible liner must be installed inside the clay liner. It is not meant to replace the
clay liner.