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How to easily replace your

old fireplace for a stylish

and efficient upgrade

any of us live in homes built 10 Existing Jetmaster External Converts To Infiniti Fires Wood Stove
to 30 years ago. These homes
Moften used under-floor Unit (Wood Fire) Dimensions Wood Stove Heats
heating in the bedrooms and bathrooms, 700D Universal 800 w x 700 h 10 Kw 400 m³
and a Jetmaster (or similar), open wood or 850 Universal 950 w x 750 h 14 Kw 560 m³
gas fire to heat the living area.
1050 Universal 1150w x 800 h 18 Kw 720 m³
With the current cost of electricity and 700 Double Side Universal 800w x 700 h 14 Kw 560 m³
gas, it has become prohibitively expensive
to heat your home this way. 1050 Double sided universal 1150 w x 800 h 18 Kw 720 m³

WOOD FIRES Infiniti Fires Conversion Inserts are GAS FIRES
An open wood fire is, at best, 20% designed to easily convert existing built- For those with open-flued gas fires (i.e.,
efficient, i.e. delivering only 1/5th of the in Jetmaster units into high-efficiency an open chimney), why not convert to
heat the wood produces into the room. wood stoves. By using a cutting torch or one of our Flueless Gas Fires? These
The other 80% or more of the heat goes plasma cutter to cut away the unwanted units burn gas with high efficiency,
up the chimney. An efficient wood stove internal parts of the existing Jetmaster, producing very few emissions. (Similar
is 80% efficient and can heat most of enough space is created for our insert to how a gas stove does not require a
a 300m² house at a fuel cost of about to slide into the external remains of chimney to operate.) These units will
R4,000 per winter. Why not upgrade your the Jetmaster. Our steel frame covers produce about three times the heating
existing inefficient open-wood fireplace the external dimensions of the existing ability of a flued gas fire using the same
to one of our high-efficiency wood Jetmaster frame to give a tidy fit. This amount of gas. Converting to our much
stoves? allows our insert to be installed in less more efficient Flueless Gas Fire is often
than a day, without any damage or re- an easy process.
work of the walls around the existing
Jetmaster. It saves a lot of dust and
disruption to the room and minimises the
cost of changing to our powerful heat
output inserts.

OTHER BUILT-IN STEEL FIREPLACES
If you have a built-in steel fireplace of a
different make, but with a similar look/
size to the Jetmasters detailed above,
one of our Conversion Inserts could still
be used for the conversion. www.infinitifires.co.za

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