How To Install a Dimplex Electric Fireplace Insert , Model DF3033 ST
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- čas přidán 21. 12. 2012
- Please subscribe to our videos, this is a video which shows How To Install our new Dimplex Fireplace Insert. It is the Model DF 3033 ST . We chose this model because we couldn't find a suitable size to fix the firebox, so after emailing the company , they selected this model. The installation was very easy, and we are very happy and pleased with the outcome. The price was excellent, and I am now looking forward to adding another one to our rec room. Thanks for watching, please send comments, and also like and share the video. Thanks again. I broke the glass last week, ( 2021 ) and ordered a new one , here is the video :
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If you are referring to the wooden bezel which surrounds the fireplace, I made that myself from a piece of plywood after I measured the exact size needed to cover the gap. Then I painted it flat black to match the fireplace. It came out perfect.
Yeah, this was the most expensive one, I didn't plan on spending this much, but it was the only one that would come close to fitting the gap in my fireplace. It is fantastic . Also, the price you mention can't be beat, I tried everywhere...lol...
There is a blower in it, and it does blow out warm air, but it would be an insignificant amount in our room, we love how it looks and the remote control feature is great. good luck, I recommend it.
Thanks so much for sharing. This one has been the most helpful so far.
No, our room is too big, and we have the furnace on all the time anyway, If you were in a small unheated room, or a cool room, it would be nice, but our house is always toasty. We only got it for the look, and it looks awesome.
Thanks.
2020 and this still helped, thank you
Your welcome. All the best
Looks great!
+Cornell Washington Thanks , this is our third year with it, and it is still amazing,
Best Electric Fireplaces. Great information.
Thanks
woow that is very nice. Have you thought of possibly installing a blower in the unit to generate some of the heat?
thx
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very nice video; thanks for doing it. I am also considering the same fireplace.
I see your video was created 12/2012 and you've likely used it for a few months now during winter. Have you had any issues with it not staying on? Does it control temperature at the remote control?
I bought my 1st house 6 years ago and it has roughly the same unit in it, although ours runs from a wall thermostat. The unit has trouble kicking on at times. I think the fan motor is going out possibly and thus the heating element gets too hot and shuts off.
Looks great. Could u please post a video of the fireplace during evening/night time so we can see the "ambience". Thanks for sharing.
I can't do that right now, but it looks exactly like you would imagine, we actually just " fired " it up the other day as it is getting close to winter again...and we love it. I don;t know how to better explain it, than to get one, you will love it.
All the best.
Ian
Very helpful video!
Thanks, its a pleasure to have it on , any night , it looks so nice.
Ian
@@BENZ007 where can I buy one my husband and I we are buying a home with a beautiful brick fire place
But we don’t want to burn wood we don’t want the mess or smell.
Any help Would greatly be appreciated
$1k? Wow. Run a fireplace video on an hdtv. ... Electric coil heat is cost prohibitive anyhow. ... It is a great install. Really like the trim out.
thanks, and yes the hdmi tv foreplace videos is also greart...and complete with crackling sound now .
amazing job mate !
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this! Is the heater loud when on? I want to use the heat function, so wondering how loud and expensive that would be. The flames look great!
Thanks for the comment, we never use the heat option, as our living room is too big, we got it because the flames look so real. I still get fooled by it, ....and I installed it !!
When we turn on the fan it is very quiet, you really can hardly hear it, it is a quiet blower, like a quiet shhhhhhhhhh
I think in a small room, ( the size they recommend ) , it would be fine, you would have to check with others. I am being honest, I really don't know. As far as cost, where we live, we have the highest electricity rates in Canada, at around 14 cents per KWH...plus tax, so depending on your location, it would vary, but it is about a 1000 watt heater, or 1 KWH , or for us, 14 cents per hour. So if you have it on say 10 hours a day, figure 1.40 a day so 45 to 55 dollars a month. Or if you only run it 2 to 3 hours a day, it would be very cheap to operate. I hope this helps.
Ian
I would like this question answer too. Thank you.
Does it warm the living room?
thx
I would like for you to run the heater fan, so I can see if it is noisy. Can you post another video demonstrating the heater fan noise level? Thank you.
You can't hear it. I accidently clicked it on once and wondered why the room was getting warmer. I had to put my hand over the vent to feel it . It's quiet .
Does this have a mirrored background?
Nice
how come some places say that if you have a wood burning fireplace already there they have to do something with the flute first? I don't know what that means but it seems like all you had to do is clean it up and put it in. is there anything other than that that I would need to do if I order one. And do you still like it all these years later?
The flue, not flute, is actually the hole in the chimney where the smoke goes up when you have a stove there. When you remove the wood stove, either close the damper or stuff some insulation in the flue to prevent a draft so you won't lose heat. Then install the Dimplex electric fireplace. We still love ours, and people all think it's a real fire, but we don't use the built in heater, our room is to big. good luck with yours, please send or post a photo here when you finish.
That is nice. My wife and I bought a double wide from a couple that had just remodeled the whole place and they left the factory installed fireplace, we don't use it in fact we had the chimney taken off the roof because it kept leaking everytime it rained so now we have a factory installed fireplace that is useless. The last owner that did all the remodeling had really nice air stone installed around the fireplace so it does look great, I was wondering if this fireplace you installed would fit in the one we have, I'm not sure because of the type of fireplace we have but if it would that would be great. That one you installed looks great for sure, can you tell me how much it cost? Thanks Ken
Hi Ken, sorry I just caught up on the comments, we really love the Dimplex Electric Fireplace insert, it's 7 years old now and still looks and works perfect. Our fireplace opening was rather large so we had to order the largest one available at the time, and I still had to build the nice bezel to go around it to fill the gaps. I also had to build a box as you can see in the video to raise it up a few inches to center it in the fireplace ..You may have to do the same thing. It does have a heater, but we never use it as the room is quite large, and we don't need it. It cost around $1000.00 cdn, but I think there are new ones now made by Dimplex that are less expensive and bigger, but I haven;t searched any lately, send some photos if you want. Hope this helps.
Where did you purchase it? How much was it? I can only find it for $999
@BENZ Did you attach the bezel to the stone or does it just sit in between the fireplace and stone? Thanks!
it's basically friction fit. When I take the fireplace out to clean the dust, i remove the bezel first and then lift the fireplace out, i had to build a little wooden box to sit it on to make it look right and fit in perfect. Hope you like yours, we plan on turning on the heater this year to combat the price of oil ! Not sure how it will work out, we have a big room. Good luck we still love ours.
I wish you could build a template for me! It looks awesome!
To be honest it turned out a lot better than I expected, I just happened to have some old cabinet doors in the shop which were already sanded and varnished, all i did was cut them and paint them gloss black. It still looks really nice even now, many years later. And we use it all the time, it looks and works great.
Nice Job!
Thanks for sharing.... Is this just for appearance, or is there a heater component?
Hi Scott, yes it has a heater, about 1000 watts but we never use it, as the room is really large and we have oil heat, the fireplace is strictly for show and it still loks and runs great.
All that work for a fake lookin fire with no heat
Yes thats true we don't need a heater it is strictly for looks and some people actually think its a real fire..lol..it is for show and we are still very impressed and happy with it. Thx.
#morsedv woow that is very nice. Have you thought of possibly installing a blower in the unit to generate some of the heat?
thx
s @doubledancer
there is a blower in it and a 1500 watt heater, but our room is too big, so we never use it, thanks for commenting.
Did the black “bezzel” come with it? It sounded like you said you made it. My fireplace is large and would need some sort of frame around it to fill in the gaps.
Yes I made it from scrap wood and spray painted it black. Otherwise there were huge gaps . I knew this when I ordered it and the bezel really makes it complete. I hope you are able to do the same. Any more questions please ask.
We are trying to find a reasonable replacement for our existing wood burning fireplace. I think that this insert might work well but I am not sure how to run the electricity to the unit. I see that you have an outlet inside your fireplace. Was this something that you had installed in order to convert to electric? Was it difficult to run through a masonry fireplace?
Actually, if you look inside your fireplace, there should be a trap door in which you could open to clean out the firebox, and in our case , we just ran a power cord up to the new electric fireplace. I hope your installation is as easy. Thanks for asking, let me know if you have any other questions. We love ours.
Hello! Your video is great but I have a question. First of all, was this a wood burning fireplace at one time? Second, you said you ran a cord(I assume an extension cord?) down an opening in the floor of the fireplace. Was this opening the original "clean out" to your basement area? I'm trying to figure out how to install something like this in my 70 yr. old fireplace and your video is the only one that has come close to explaining issues that I have. Is there an actual plug on the fireplace cord that can plug into the extension cord? Most descriptions of these fireplaces tell you not to attach to an extension cord so I'm a little confused. I'd appreciate any info you could give me. Thanks so much!
yes you saw it correct, there is a hole in the bottom of the existing wood burning fireplace , It is covered with a steel plate, so I opened up a corner of the plate and snaked a 15 amp extension cord to the cleanout at the bottom of the chimney and plugged it into an outlet in the basement. It was only supposed to be temporary ( 9 years ago ) but I still have it hooked up . Yes there is an electrical plug on the fireplace same as on any other electrical item like an iron or frying pan or toaster.. nothing special. Hope this helps.
We are looking at getting a fireplace very similar to this made by Dimplex. My question is if this unit makes a huge impact on the electric bill each month? We wouldn't run it all day but just only for a few hours in the evening.
no impact at all, but then again, we never use the heat part, it draws about 1000 watts an hour, ( with the heater on ) but almost nothing when it is just the flame. It is great. I recommend it. We love it.
What did you do the electrical cord? Initially I could see the black cord running along the baseboard plugged in but when you completed the install, the cord was gone. How did you hide the cord without drilling a hole in the wall of the fireplace?
There is a clean out inside the fireplace and it opens to the chimney so I ran the cord to an extension cord and through the clean out to the basement and out the trap door at the bottom of the chimney and plugged it in down there. It was a temporary set up 8 years ago lol...still there
What kind of tape did you use to cover the extension cord? Steel tape?? We are doing the same exact thing with our fireplace. We have a hole that leads to the garage. Our fireplace is 35". We bought a 33" insert.
I didn't get around to it yet...and that was 7 years ago. The extension cord is curled up behind the fireplace and we fed it down the clean-out and pulled it out through the bottom of the chimney. Will get around to it someday, Best of luck with your installation/
Hello, am looking to install the same unit Dimplex DF3033. Is it still running well? And does it need any maintenance? Thanks for your advice.
Yes we use it all the time. No issues no maintenance. .works great. We love it .
@@BENZ007 Thanks alot mate.
I want to change mine to that how much is that insert?
That’s beautiful I’m looking for one like that where can I get one and how much Are they? Thank you
For any help you can give me
Will reply tomorrow
Thanks for replying, this is a Dimplex Electric Fireplace insert. The model Number is in the video. I ordered it online from the Dimplex Website at the time, but they are sold at a lot of stores now. Our fireplace opening was quite large so I had to order the biggest one available which also just happened to be the most expensive. It was $1100.00 CDN. So if you are in the USA it is likely available for around $800.00 . After I installed it., as you can see I had to build a base to hold it at the proper height, and if you are handy, that was pretty simple, but I could have used anything like some tin soup cans or whatever to hold it up, and them I had to make the black bezel to finish off the outside. I happened to have some old plywood in the basement so I cut strips and fastened them to make the bezel and painted it with just black spray paint, but you can use a small can of black from the hardware store. This is many years later and we still love it. I had to remove it this year and change a bulb which I didn't even know was burned out..lol...and I cleaned it inside a bit of dust etc. We never use the heater portion of the fireplace, it has a built in 1000 watt heater, but for our room, it would not have any effect, it would be good for a small room though. Also, to power the insert, there is a hole in the bottom of the existing fireplace for cleaning , and it goes to the bottom of the chimney, so I temporarily ran an extension cord up from the basement through the chimney port and plugged it in to the insert power cord and thats why you can't see a cord outside , and it works fine, and as it was temporary, and works, it is likely permanent. I was planning on installing an outlet in there , but never got around to it. I hope this summary is helpful, please watch the video again I may have missed something. Thanks for commenting.
@@BENZ007 thank you for your reply
It looks beautiful
I hope to get one
we are working building a faux.. fire place but my husband suggested putting in a electric fireplace insert. we have a plug right there.. that is actually controlled by a light switch just wondering if this needs to be in a fire proof area? our mantel ect is just of of mdf and pine.. it will be painted..
I can saw with great confidence it doesn't need to be a fireproof area, as in code for a real fireplace. All this is , is a light bulb, and a small heater inside the box .
You can buy small heaters anywhere in any store, and there is no code requirement for them in a home. We love ours, watch the video again, it looks great, even better when it is dark in the room, it fools everyone. Good luck.
How hot does the bezel get? I may need to do this on a 5,118 BTU Dimplex PF3033HL capable of heating up to 1,000 sq ft. I wonder if wood is safe for that?
The bezel I made does not go above the heater output and the air goes out on top. I don't see your situation as a problem . It's like about a hair dryer , about 1000 watts blowing out the top . We rarely use it as our room is too big but 1000 Sq feet is also big for this heater. Might heat up 400 Sq ft.
@@BENZ007 Thanks for the info.
How did you build that bezel. Out of what material?
I am at the grocery store now, and I can't reply properly, but when I get home I will email or send the directions to this message. I presume you installed it and there is a gap and you want to finish it before Christmas. I will reply within the hour.
I used 3/4 inch plywood cut to the width necessary to hide the gap There is lots of room to work with as the lip on the fireplace glass is good. I made the base fit tight so it doesn;t need any supports and I attached the vertical legs to the base with small wooden blocks and screwed them to hold it tight. Then I painted it with 2 coats of black enamel. Best of luck.
Thank you so much. Yes I had this exact issue where there was space around my insert.
can you send a photo
nice fire place i like it becuase you dont need to put wood in it!
I bought this same model and have a six inch gap at the top...what did you make the template out of?
+Lisa Patton I just happened to have a piece of 3/4 inch plywood in my basement, and as you can see I had gaps at the bottom and sides. Is there any chance you can raise the fireplace up so the top fits snug ? It looks better as the top is close to the bricks. I built a small box as you can see at 4:24 and rested the fireplace on top of it so it is snug at the top. You can use anything to raise the fireplace , even old books or bricks. I have a small table saw and cut the boards to the exact size for the template and painted them flat black. The template is nice and snug all around, and fits perfect. There is nothing holding the template in place, it's that exact that friction holds it there. Good luck with it, let me know how it turns out, we love ours, send us a photo if you can.
I would kill for a detailed video on how you got the electricity in there....
+Blue Roof Bandits Picks lol...haha, that was a temporary hook up. The cord was run up from the basement through the clean out, every chimney has a clean out. It took about 30 seconds to run the cord.. Thanks for sending a comment.
+Pixar Cars and Thomas and Friends Fan every chimney except mine...dallas, tx
Blue Roof Bandits Picks Wow..that's a pain,your house must be on a slab, and your chimney built on the slab, so there is no clean-out. The simplest way then is to drill a hole with a cement bit through the back of the chimney to the outside wall, and have an electrician run a proper cable to your panel. Too bad it wasn't easier. Wish you the best.
@@BENZ007 Hello! I am going to have to buy one of these inserts for my giant fireplace in a tiny house. SMH. I have a clean out, am on a raised foundation, no basement. Any suggestions? I will have to hire a professional, aren't I?
Where did you get the trim surround
If you are referring to the wooden bezel which surrounds the fireplace, I made that myself from a piece of plywood after I measured the exact size needed to cover the gap. Then I painted it flat black to match the fireplace. It came out perfect.
How did you gide the electrical outlet
You may need to hire a qualified electrician to install an outlet inside the fireplace , or if you prefer, just snake an extension cord in the corner and feed it to the plug at the back. I ran mine up through a clean-out at the bottom of the existing fireplace. Temporarily ..like 8 years ago.
How did u connect it??
There was a cleanout in the bottom of the old fireplace so I ran a cord from the basement up to it, it was a temporary thing I did when I installed it, but still there. The correct way is to hire an electrician to install an outlet in the fireplace. Its on my list.
is it still running?
Oh yeah, we tend to use it mostly in the winter, not for heat but for ambience. It's so realistic.
Just a suggestion, but you would be best saving yourself a lot of grief in changing the lights by not following the manual. The easiest and best way is to remove the unit, turn it upside down, then remove the base. May seem like a lot of work, but by the time you get the logs out and try to get your hand in the back to change them, you will only become frustrated. I repair and service these in my sleep and they all have their own little quirk. There are always easier ways to address an issue.
Thanks for the tip, I haven't had a light go out yet, we only use it a few weeks of the year. I appreciate the comment. Hope others can use it.
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Człowiek wyjdzie ze wsi ale wieś z człowieka nigdy. Do konika drewno. LPG do poloneza.
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