#Fireplace hood heat deflector tv#
I like the look of a TV recessed and framed but this often requires shooting out the back of a gas unit or rolling the vent like I did in the fireplace above.
#Fireplace hood heat deflector manual#
Your manual for that fireplace unit will give you all the answers your looking for and these will help narrow in your design. No mantle and a surface mount TV is a failure in the making I think. A mantle acts as a heat deflector sending the heat further away from the wall. This can change the colour of stone and wreck havoc on electronics. Often we use safe and sound insulation and cement board to further block the heat.įireplaces are hottest about 8-20" above the unit. Often we incorporate a heat escape of sorts within the design to allow heat to exit the recessed niche. I have never had a TV fail on one of my projects but we take a lot of care planning this out. I couldn't find anything on that from their website or ?īasically, have it dry-walled with a mantel w/some type of tile ? around fireplace and have the TV mounted above.Īs far as a perfect viewing angle the TV above the fireplace is less than ideal like Jim mentions but does make for a single feature point in a room. I wasn't sure if I could have the drywall come up just to the outside of the metal frame of the fireplace. I went to their web site punched in the #'s and nothing came up. Make is a Heatilator wood burning only #'s that I could find were 479 #F360625 MARK 123 30380A on a tag riveted to the inside lip. Ok when we removed the rock the drywall came off with the rock what you see in the pictures is what was behind the rock ,the only thing I removed were 4 pieces of insulation between the header piece up top and the next horizontal 2x4 below it. If you visit you can browse through tons of examples. This is key to observe and the safety of your home and TV will improve or reduce depending on how well you follow this information. I have been building fireplace features longer than I have showers and there is a lot of safe guards you can preform to achieve some safety points in regards to mounting a TV above the fireplace.ĭrywall many times is not permitted above your fireplace, most units require 8"-24" of a non combustable material above and many require non combustable material 2"-6" on the sides but not all.Įach fireplace will have a specification for mantle project. Once we have that we can then answer the drywall question. Is that unit burning gas even? Might be an A vent or wood burning. This make and model information will be on the lighter tag under the fireplace near the pilot lighter. I'm looking for V Shaped pieces on the top, back and side of your fireplace. Can you upload more pictures of the fireplace and the exact make and model. It appears to me that the stand offs to your fireplace have been removed or they are just so tiny I can not see them. I know I wouldn't put any insulation lower than that.įirst off, you have a load of questions and before you race off building your next project you need to hit the brakes and do some homework. Can I put up some insulation around the inside walls where the metal baffle/reducer tapers down/up to the flue going up. There was no insulation in back/sides of the flue. The only insulation that was there were between the the studs I'm talking about wanting to move back enough to nail in the plywood. So when its all down I'll have a solid area to bolt the tv mount to, instead of like most tv mounts you get one stud and have to molly-screw the other side. I thought I could move the 5 short studs back enough to nail in about 1/3 sheet of 3/4 in plywood, add insulation where I could, then have the drywall installed. And if we ever do have another fire in the fireplace it will only be a duraflame log. We are going to have a flat panel tv mounted up above the fireplace. The drywall came off in chunks with the rock/concrete.Ĭan we simply re drywall to the edge of the fireplace, then put up a mantel ? or does there need to be other material put up ? Inside the garage it is boxed out abit for the fireplace. Ok we removed the rock /drywall and now looking at frame work and an open cavity with fireplace metal flue. Ok trying to post up next picture, hope it not too small ? First off sorry for the pic being so big !
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