Mendota: FV33i FireIn

A FireIn fire, with flames within the logs, for your existing fireplace.

Quick Facts

• Fuel: Natural gas or propane.
• Controls: Electronic ignition with a thermostatic remote: flame height, burners, fan speed, lights, and a timer from your seat. Wi-Fi app control is available.
• Fan: Included.

Who It’s For

An old wood fireplace can be drafty, messy, and seldom used. You want a gas fire in it that still looks like burning wood. The Mendota FV33i FireIn is made for that. Leave the old opening as it is and it keeps sitting dark.

What Makes It Special

The FireIn burner sits inside the log set, so the flames come up not just under the logs but within and around them, and the hand-painted birch or white oak logs capture the look of a crackling wood fire.

Mendota offers the FireIn insert in two sizes, the FV33i and the FV44i.

If the power goes out, plug in the back-up battery pack and the burner and flame height keep working; the fans and accent lights wait for the power to return. Mendota builds its fireplaces from heavy-gauge steel with full-seam welding and careful hand assembly in America’s heartland.

Possible Downsides

• Surround, logs, liner, and front are sold separately. You choose each one to build the look.
• The fans need power. In an outage the battery pack runs the burner, not the fans.

If you want a Mendota fire in your existing fireplace, the Mendota FV33i FireIn is the right decision. The fireplace you used to ignore becomes the one you light every evening.

Choose the surround, front, liner, and log set or media, and add the LED floor light kit where offered.