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Alternative Heat From Your Fireplace - Get the Most Heat From Your Fireplace with a Wood Stove Inser
Sun 06 May 2007 - 17:25
Alternative Heat From Your Fireplace - Get the Most Heat From Your Fireplace with a Wood Stove Inser
By David W Miller
With the high cost of heating fuels more of us are turning to wood as an alternative heat source. Your fireplace can be great for an enjoyable evening fire for the weekend wood burner but it is not an efficient heat source. Most fireplaces tend to pull heat out of your home. The room you are burning in might get warm but the rest of the home gets cold. Heat always seeks cold. Did you ever visit an older home that had a fireplace in every room or one at either end of the house? Using multiple fireplaces in your home at the same time allows the heat to be pulled through your home. This heat transfer does a great job of heating your home. As coal became more popular with central furnaces many homes were built without fireplaces or only one.
More heat can be gained with the use of a blower or fireplace fan. Fireplace grate heaters seem to be the most efficient for putting heated air back into your home. Low CFM fans or blowers are always used in fireplaces. The reason for a low CFM fan is because you want to gently move the heat if you push the heat too much it will cool faster.
The most effective way of getting heat from your fireplace is with an insert. An insert is a wood burning stove that is inserted into the firebox thus it is called an insert. Federal codes require using a positive connect.
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