Warming up after a snowball fight, stockings hung with care, toasting marshmallows, romance..... all of the elements that come to mind when you think about your wood burning fireplace. Now, with the cost of energy soaring to record highs, peace of mind and the sound "cha-ching", can make your wood burning fireplace or stove even more appealing!
Wood burning fireplaces have gotten a bad rap over the years. Old wives tales and stories circulate that they are not as efficient as gas. Decades ago that may have been true.
EPA certified units provide enough heating power to warm a room or series of rooms, while emitting almost no wood smoke. They also require less wood to build a comparable fire in a traditional fireplace. Sounds like a good head start on your heating bills!
Today's fireplace inserts are similar in function and performance to free-standing stoves, but are intended to be installed within the firebox of an existing open fireplace. Properly installed EPA certified wood stove and fireplace inserts offer numerous benefits. They not only burn wood safely and efficiently, they heat your home with much less smoke. There are also several options that can be added that can make your wood burning fireplace up to 90% more efficient!
By installing a radiant glass door, you can increase heating efficiency on your wood burning fireplace or insert up to 90%! If you are operating your wood burning fireplace without a glass door, you may as well open a window! By radiating heat through the glass door, you are now taking the heat that could escape up the chimney and sending it out to your room. Why not convert your negative flue into positive warmth?!!!
A blower grate is the perfect partner to your fireplace door. Some units come standard with a blower; others offer blowers as an option. Select a model with a high cfm (cubic feet per minute) blower. By adding a high cfm blower, you can increase your efficiency between 74 and 92%! A blower saves money by distributing more heat throughout the room through baffles. What are baffles? They sit on top or in front of the blower and slown down the air blowing out of the fireplace to heat it before it reaches the room. A blower grate allows you to get the full benefit from your fireplace. Blowers increase efficiency while maintaining the aesthetics of your fireplace.
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