Installing Vent Pipe And Appliance; Venting Components; Connecting Vent Pipe - Quadra-Fire QVI-30FB-S Owner's Manual

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Installing Vent Pipe and Appliance

A. Venting Components
CAUTION
Sharp Edges
• Wear protective gloves and safety
glasses during installation.
The vertical vent termination system installed on this model
includes:
• One 3-foot section stainless steel fl exible pipe (included
with insert).
• One length of 3-inch fl exible vent pipe for combustion air
(included with vent kit).
• Flexible vent pipe for exhaust air (included with vent kit).
• One pipe-to-cap adaptor (included with vent kit).
• One vertical termination cap (included with vent kit).
Note: To achieve optimum
per formance of insert,
minimize or avoid bends
in exhaust vent pipe.
Figure 7.1
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TERMINATION
CAP
ADAPTOR
EXHAUST COLLAR
INLET AIR COLLAR
EXHAUST
VENT PIPE
V= 14 FT. MINIMUM
50 FT. MAXIMUM
3 INCH COLLAR
(Factory installed to
stainless steel section)
WARNING: DO NOT
BLOCK PIPE END WITH
INSULATION OR ANY OTHER
SEALING MATERIAL
STAINLESS STEEL
PIPE - 3 FT. MIN.
REQUIRED (INCLUDED)
INLET AIR
VENT PIPE
COLLAR ATTACHMENT
BRACKET
Quadra-Fire • QVI-30FB-S • 2020-910 Rev. H • 6/09
B. Connecting Vent Pipe
Reference instructions in the termination kit.
• Install the 3-inch fl exible vent pipe(s) down through the
chimney.
• Secure the exhaust fl exible vent pipe to the 3 foot section
stainless steel flexible vent pipe using the factory-
installed 3-inch collar in the stainless steel section of
pipe (see Figure 7.1).
• Use 3 screws to attach either a 4 foot or 30 foot section
of inlet air vent to the inlet collar on the collar slide plate
(see Figure 7.1). NOTE: The collar slide plate may be
removed from appliance to aid installation.
• Seal opening between fl ex vent and chimney just above
insert. Unfaced fi berglass insulation may be used for this
purpose.