My Fireplace and/or Chimney Pipe brand requires a Ventilated Chase Pan. What is a Ventilated Chase Pan, how does it work, and how does it get installed?
A Ventilated Chase Pan is a chase pan that is suspended between 1/2″ to 1″ above the chase top, and is held ½” to 1″ away from the side edges of the chase. It is literally floating. To wit: if you were a bumblebee you could fly up under one edge – continue across the chase top – underneath the pan – and then fly down and out the other side. To accomplish this engineering marvel, we provide spacer channels that are screwed into the chase top. If a shroud is going on top of the pan, the spacer brackets must be strategically placed to both support the pan and to provide anchor points and support for the chimney shroud. The steps are: • Install spacer channels per the diagram. • the chase pan on top of the spacer brackets. • Set the shroud on top of the chase pan. • Use 4″ long SS screws and screw through the foot of the shroud, through the rubber gasket, through the chase pan, through the spacer bracket and on into framing. Thus both the spacer bracket and the framing will be holding the
