Sealing Around Fireplace Doors

If needed purchase extra weather stripping.

Sealing around fireplace doors.

Gasketed fireplace doors are masonry doors that have a seal that goes around the outside and the inside of the door. This will help seal off your fireplace and conserve heat inside your fireplace. This foam insulation is very good in sealing little or large gaps that exist in a chimney door. If you seal the fireplace surround properly you do not have to worry about the soot staining your brick.

Use when installing bath fixtures to seal gaps between shower tiles between sinks and counters and around the base of the toilet. This means that air is much less likely to escape from the door even though a true airtight seal is impossible to achieve for a masonry door like the ones that many people use in their home. Cracks in this seal can lead to moisture problems around your stones or insert or to a loss of heating efficiency. Use around sinks tubs and showers.

1 fill in large cracks between the insert and the fireplace stones with fire. Paintable silicone caulk can be used around the outside of window units to properly seal the window and the siding edge or around the entire door unit. The fireplace surround may need to be sealed if you find that heat and soot are escaping from gaps between the fireplace and the bricks. Midwest hearth wood stove replacement gasket kit for woodburning stoves graphite impregnated fiberglass gaskets and adhesive 5 8 x 84 rope 4 5 out of 5 stars 784.