Montigo® DelRay — Modern Fire, Made to Fit
The DelRay is the fireplace Montigo® built for the way most modern rooms are actually drawn — not the show home with a wall to spare, but the real one, where the fire has to find its place inside a stud bay that already has work to do. It is a family rather than a single model: a long, low Linear and a more upright Square, each built around the same clean idea. A single sheet of glass, a frameless face, and a fire that sits quietly behind it.
What you notice first is what isn't there. No heavy cast surround, no protruding hood, no visible mechanism along the bottom. The DelRay frames into a remarkably slim wall — a fourteen-and-a-quarter-inch depth — so it tucks into a standard stud bay without bumping back into the room behind it or out into the room in front. That shallow build is the first of several installation details that make the DelRay unusually easy to place. It vents through a slim four-by-seven direct-vent run — the same coaxial pipe that carries the sixty-inch unit — and where an older B-vent chimney chase already exists, a B-vent adapter lets that run be converted to direct vent rather than torn out. Between the shallow box, the modest venting and the adapter, the same fireplace suits a wall going up for the first time and a wall that has stood for fifty years — including the upper-floor and condominium retrofits where a conventional chimney was never going to be possible.
The reason that clean face is possible is heat, and where it is sent. The DelRay carries Montigo's cool-wall heat management — the warmth the fire produces is captured and directed out where the room wants it, rather than left to soak into the wall above. The surface over the glass stays cool enough to live with, which is the quiet permission behind everything people want to do with a contemporary fireplace today: hang a television above it, mount a piece of art, or simply run the finishing material — tile, plaster, stone, or wood facing — right down to the glass opening with no metal reveal and no awkward transition. The wall meets the fire, and nothing interrupts the line.
Inside the firebox, the room keeps choosing. The bed beneath the flame can be a warm, traditional log set or a cooler modern field of glass and speckled stones; on the Square, a universal burner lets you move from one to the other without changing the burner underneath, so the fireplace can change its mind as the room does. It is field-convertible between natural gas and propane, and its heat output is deliberately modest — as little as sixteen thousand BTU on the smaller units — efficient warmth that takes the chill off a room without cooking you out of the tighter, better-insulated ones the DelRay is so often chosen for.
How much fireplace you buy is its own decision. In its base form the DelRay is honestly basic — a concealed burner and the fire, and little more — and that is what keeps it the more affordable way into a modern fireplace. From there it climbs: the full-load version arrives with Proflame® 2 intermittent-pilot ignition and a multi-function remote, a heat-circulating fan, a near-invisible mesh safety screen, black reflective glass, soft halogen downlighting, and a battery backup that keeps it lighting on the evening the power goes out. Most rooms land somewhere along that line, and part of what we do is help you decide where.
Two shapes, eight proportions
The same clean face, drawn to the wall it has to live in.
The DelRay is, plainly, the more affordable modern fireplace — the most attainable contemporary fire we show, priced as a way in rather than as the centrepiece of the room. What it is not is cheap to the eye: lit, with the finish carried to the glass, it gives very little away about what it cost. That value only becomes a finished room once someone takes responsibility for the space around the fire, and that is the part we do at Maxwell Fireplace. We help you choose between the Linear and the Square and the size that suits the wall, and we settle the bed, the media and the trim with you so the engineering disappears and only the fire remains. We pull the permits. We do the gas connection, the commissioning, and the years of service after.
Available in natural gas or propane, and approved even for mobile-home installation. DelRay Linear in 36, 48, 60 and 72″; DelRay Square in 34, 38, 42 and 46″ — each offered from a base model up to a full load. Shallow fourteen-and-a-quarter-inch framing depth, four-by-seven direct venting, and a B-vent adapter available to convert many existing B-vent runs rather than rebuild them. Tell us which wall the fire has to live in, and we will tell you which DelRay it is asking for.
A modern fire that asks very little of the wall — and gives the room back its clean line.
Questions people tend to ask
Will it fit a standard stud bay?
That is what it was drawn for. The DelRay frames into a remarkably slim wall — a fourteen-and-a-quarter-inch depth — so it tucks into a standard stud bay without bumping back into the room behind it or out into the room in front. Montigo® built it for the way most modern rooms are actually drawn: not the show home with a wall to spare, but the real one, where the fire has to find its place in a stud bay that already has work to do.
Can it reuse an existing B-vent chimney chase?
Often, yes, and it saves a great deal of demolition. The DelRay vents through a slim four-by-seven direct-vent run, and where an older B-vent chase already exists, a B-vent adapter lets that run be converted to direct vent rather than torn out. Between the shallow box, the modest venting and the adapter, the same fireplace suits a wall going up for the first time and a wall that has stood for fifty years — including the upper-floor and condominium retrofits where a conventional chimney was never going to be possible.
Can a television go above it, and can tile run to the glass?
Both. The DelRay carries Montigo®’s cool-wall heat management: the warmth the fire produces is captured and directed out where the room wants it rather than left to soak into the wall above. The surface over the glass stays cool enough to live with, so you can hang a television or a piece of art, or run the finishing material — tile, plaster, stone or wood facing — right down to the glass opening with no metal reveal and no awkward transition.
What sizes and shapes are there?
Two shapes across eight proportions. The DelRay Linear is the long, low one, single-sided, in 36, 48, 60 and 72″. The DelRay Square is the more upright one, also single-sided, in 34, 38, 42 and 46″. Tell us which wall the fire has to live in and we will tell you which DelRay it is asking for.
What is the difference between the base model and the full load?
Quite a lot, and it is the decision that sets the price. In its base form the DelRay is honestly basic — a concealed burner and the fire, and little more — which is what keeps it the more affordable way into a modern fireplace. The full-load version adds Proflame® 2 intermittent-pilot ignition with a multi-function remote, a heat-circulating fan, a near-invisible mesh safety screen, black reflective glass, soft halogen downlighting, and a battery backup that keeps it lighting on the evening the power goes out. Most rooms land somewhere along that line, and part of what we do is help you decide where.
Will it overheat a small, well-insulated room?
Unlikely — its output is deliberately modest, as little as sixteen thousand BTU on the smaller units. That is efficient warmth that takes the chill off a room without cooking you out of the tighter, better-insulated ones the DelRay is so often chosen for. It is also field-convertible between natural gas and propane.
Can I change the fuel bed later without replacing the burner?
On the Square, yes. A universal burner lets you move between a warm traditional log set and a cooler modern field of glass and speckled stones without changing the burner underneath — so the fireplace can change its mind as the room does.
Is it approved for a mobile home?
It is — the DelRay is approved even for mobile-home installation, in natural gas or propane, which is not something every contemporary fireplace can say.
A fireplace is only half of it. The other half is who places it.
Maxwell Fireplace is North Vancouver’s Creative FireSpaces™ — and we stay involved in every part of the job. The fireplace itself is ours from the first conversation to the final flame: design and placement, permitting, delivery, installation, and the care that comes after. When the work runs to a surround, a mantel, tile or millwork, we plan it with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in — so the fire and the wall are drawn as one thing rather than two. One point of contact, and nothing lost in the gap between trades.
It’s exactly why a DelRay belongs with us. A shallow fourteen-and-a-quarter-inch framing depth and a four-by-seven vent open up walls that would refuse a deeper firebox — but only once someone has drawn the run and carried the finish cleanly to the edge of the glass — and that is the difference between an appliance and a centrepiece. We serve homeowners and contractors across Greater Vancouver, the North Shore, and the Sea to Sky Corridor — Squamish to Whistler and Pemberton — and we’d love to show you what’s possible for your room.