In colder climates, it becomes necessary to have a fireplace in your home to be comfortable inside. Therefore, adding a fireplace will be a great plus for your home.



When you consider adding fireplace to your home, you have to decide first the kind of fireplace you would like to have.

A natural gas insert or a free standing stove would be preferred as a fireplace because these fireplaces would not only keep you home warm, but its burning is much cleaner, maintains better air quality inside home and produces much less pollution outside. These fireplaces are selling more than wood burning ones in spite of the fact that natural gas costs more money.

, gas inserts and pellet stoves provides efficient heating in a given area and therefore more popular among people. Also installation of these fireplaces lead to lesser utility bill as thermostat could be set at lower temperature. These natural gas fire places could heat around 1000 square foot of space within your home.

You must keep following points in mind at the time when you are taking a decision regarding the type of fireplace and the model you want to procure.

1Masonry wood burning fireplaces loose more 85 per cent of the heat generated, through the chimney. These fireplaces also causes high amount of pollution in the outside atmosphere. These fireplaces are also quite problematic as far as air quality and cleanliness inside home is concerned. Gas fireplace inserts could be installed in most of the masonry fireplaces that exist.

2The factors to be considered while selecting a fireplace would include the local weather condition, how your house is located, how old is your house and how your house is built. Also to consider, is the amount of heat required to keep you and your family warm.

3If you are purchasing fireplace to provide zone heating, you should consider gas fireplaces, gas inserts and pellet appliances. You should also ensure these gas fireplace units are having A. F. U. E. (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency) rating.

4It is required to keep direct vent gas fireplaces close to an outside wall. It will enable them to get outside air to feed the flame. Relatively cool gases would get exhausted through wall mounted or roof vent.

5No outside venting is required for vent free fireplaces. But, these fireplaces should not be installed in new homes because, after sometime it produces condensation inside home. These fire places also do not have doors.

6Conventional gas fire places require to be fitted with Class B vents. These vents help in carrying away hot combustible gases and most of them have operable doors.

7Pellet furnaces are fire standing stoves or fireplace inserts which use wood based pellets made from wood dust as its raw material. These fireplaces are usually used for zone heating and require waste wood for its running. These could be designed to burn other materials like corn and grains.

By making a right choice in your selection of a fireplace, keeping in consideration the location of the house, your preferences and your life style, you would continue to enjoy the benefits of your new fireplace for a long time.