The Woodburner's Guide:

Practical Ways of Heating with Wood

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces today offer more than they did at one time. Today we do not have to worry about smoke, soot, or other soil that builds up in our homes. We do not need chimneys or pokers nowadays with some wood burning stoves. Fireplaces today operate on electric, or other operational utilities. You can install the portables in any small, home, and still have sufficient space. The fireplaces are designed to save energy, since you use less gas heat when operating the fireplaces in the home. Wood burning stoves do the same.

The older wood burning stoves you would throw wood in the door, shut it after lighting the stove. The old potbelly wood burners are just an old tin stove. Some of the stoves were made of cast irons, which you could pull the plate off and cook a meal on top of the stoves. You had to use a poker to keep down soot. Today, the wood stoves have blowers that run from electric. The innovative scheme cut back on soot, poker use and smoke. The wood burning stoves today are energy savers. Back in the day, you could buy wood burning stoves for around $29, but today you will pay a pretty penny to install a wood burning stove in your home. Fireplaces are not cheap either, yet you can find some models for around $200 or $300. To help you see the benefits however, of todays wood burning stoves and fireplaces we can discuss, price verses the expense of heating bills. We can also view a few types to help you see what the market offers you.

Environmentally Safe Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Environmental safe wood burning stoves and fireplaces do not send smoke in the room. When a room is smoky, it burns heat, which wastes energy. Energy is saved with some of the environmental wood burning stoves and fireplaces. You can go online to find various models sold.

The woodstoves that has unburned wood smoke, they will have a yellow to colorless oily substance that derived from the coal bar. In addition, the wood stove could release it as air pollution and could cause serious health conditions. A poorly installed woodstove or an old woodstove could result in a higher maintenance costs and or greater risk of smoke in your home and environmental air pollution. In addition, it could cause a house fire.

If an EPA, certified woodstove and fireplace is properly installed the inserts offer many benefits. The woodstoves burn more efficiently and more safely. The woodstove is more safely to heat your home. The stoves heat your home mere effectively with much less smoke. With the EPA, correctly input of wood stoves that is inserted the way it is supposed to be put in a home you should see only the thin wisp of steam of smoke that is coming from your chimney.

The perfect installed EPA recommends that your certified woodstoves or fireplace inserted professionally installed by a certified technician to insure the safety of your home. Make sure the installed unit is properly performing. Check the first five or ten minutes after it installation to see if the unit is correctly performing. They include some code requirements that are proper clearance between the stove and venting system and combustible material, in

addition to proper protection of combustible floors, and proper assembly of appliance and venting components.

If error in the installation by a non-experienced technician occurs, you may have problems getting tech to repair the issues. Errors can cause house burnings and health problems or other problems that are not noticeable at that time. If you have, a problem that you did not realize it can result of a house fire. The experienced professional technician could properly size and place equipment for the best heating distribution. If the venting system of (or chimney), in a particular is a critical area that requires a professional technician involvement. That engine drives the completely burning process or causes it to perform an inappropriate behavior. The professional technician decides whether the venting system ensures the adequate draft.

The inclusion that the woodstove technician needs is properly sizing, avoiding oversized flues, also the proper height, that haves to be taller than original sized that can be a code requirements, the proper location the interior of the house when possible, the protection from extreme coldness. In addition to proper configure avoid excessive horizontal runs and systems that turns in direction.

The wood burning stoves approved by EPA when properly installed and has a good working ventilation unit can decrease health risks by adequately drafting consumptions of wood to produce better heating quality. The wood burning reduces the maintenance from inefficient fires.

The smoke from the woodstoves may smell good but it is bad for your health. If you are healthy, you are not usually at major risk from smoke. Still, it is a good idea to avoid breathing smoke if you can help it. If you have heart or lung disease, such as congestive heart failure, an inflammation

disorder, or if you have COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) or related diseases such as asthma or emphysema, you want to reduce smoke inhalation as much as possible.

Seniors are likely to feel more effected by smoke inhalation than the younger group. Perhaps this is because seniors are at a higher risk, or suffer from lung disease, or heart conditions.

Children are susceptible more so from smoke inhalation health problems also, because childrens respiratory is continuing in its developmental stage. The children also breathe in more air, which means more pollution is breathed in also. The pollution escalates based on pounds per body weight. Children are more active indoors and outdoors also, which puts them at a higher risk.

Wood Burning Stoves and Portable Fireplaces

Today we can purchase wood burning stoves and portable fireplaces of all sorts. The products give us the chance of saving energy and money spent on high heating cost. Wood burning stoves and portable fireplaces come in many sizes, shapes and styles. One of the portable fireplaces includes the Bookcase fireplace. This series is a 42 in high by 12.5 inches in diameter and 45.5 wide. This is one of the realistic models sold today. The fireplace has a light oak tone and shelves to store books, knick-knacks, etc. The price is around $600, yet this fireplace offers you a warming up tool that compares to life-like fire. You do not have to worry about smoke, chimney, soot, and the fireplace is safe to use. Todays portable fireplaces have realistic logs that last a lifetime. Real flames come from the log producing heat.

Fireplaces today allow you to warm up to a cozy fire. Instead of turning your heat up, you can save energy and use your safe fireplace. Today you can enjoy cozy fireplaces. You can install the fireplaces anywhere in your office or home without worrying about smoke or soot. The fireplaces are portable allowing you to move them to another area if you choose. Some of the fireplaces have display shelves affixed, which provides you extra space for collectibles, books, keepsakes and more.

The fireplaces today offer you safety. The units today have certified guarantees of safety, which all units were fully tested. You do not have to worry about messy soot, or using a poker to clean up the area. Most fireplaces today have crea-safe, which takes care of odors. Sparks from the fire, or smoke from a chimney is not a problem. You can use safe fireplaces today without worrying about wood or costly gas to heat the logs. You dont

have to worry about hooking some of the fireplaces up to an electrical outlet either. The fireplaces today burn all-natural substances, which include jellied grain alcohol. The substance is a 100% effective and ecologically soundproof. The logs will burn up to three or even four hours with some of the fireplaces sold today.

Some fireplaces today include features, such as light oak finishing. You have bookshelves with some fireplaces, or stands at the top with others. The open fire area has a screen and some have metal insert boxes, metal grates, lifetime logs and fuel.

Fireplaces are a romantic item. You can enjoy a glass of wine with your loved one by an open fire. Fireplaces can turnaround depressive moods, since the items warm the soul. When the soul is warm, the mind will start to relax.

How to find fireplaces and wood burning stoves: First, you need to decide if you want a fireplace or a wood burning stove. The two differ in many ways. Once you discover your needs, you can go online. Do some research where stoves and fireplaces are sold each day? Online you will find some of the lowest priced fireplaces and stoves sold today. Most stores that sell fireplaces have set prices, which can range from $400 and up. In fact the fireplace described in this article costs retail price, $599.95.

Going online gives you the advantage. Online you can compare products, cost and look for promotions, coupons, sales, discounts, clearances, closeouts, blowout sales and more. On the Internet, various stores that sell fireplaces of wood burning stoves will also give you a detail description of each product. Use reviews also so that you can get an understanding on a

product you might find of interest. Put safety first when installing wood burning stoves or fireplaces.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Safety

The environmental researches test the stoves and fireplaces sold today to make sure that we do not have hazardous. The wood burning stoves, as well as the fireplaces do not spread smoke around the area, which makes them environmentalist experts approved. Environmentalist tells us that when smoke spreads around the room it wastes precious energy.

Woodstoves that burn woods often produce smoke. When smoke circulates, it produces colorless fumes that come from the coal, which releases into the air. The fumes circulate going into the lungs when breathed, which can cause serious health problems. Poorly installed woodstoves can cost a fortune to resolve. The maintenance cost is often high and the risks of environmental air pollution and health risks increase. In addition, poorly installed woodstoves is dangerous, since it increases the risks of fire.

Environmentalist certifies woodstoves that offer fire safety and environmental safety. Environmentalist certifies Fireplaces for safety also. The fireplaces and woodstoves as recommended by environmentalist tell us to properly, install the units to reduce risks, inserting them properly to reduce costs. When you install the units properly, you achieve efficient safety. Woodstoves today are nice, since most are EPA approved. The cost efficient units will produce heat in your home to save you money on common heating bills. Stoves will heat the home today without producing soot and smoke. Most units sold today do not require use of chimneys. Environmentalist has correctly input the woodstoves and fireplaces today, which inserting them into your home you should only see wisps of smoke coming from the steam or in some instances a chimney.

Professionals should install woodstoves in your home. A Certified technician will insure your home is safe. In addition, certified technicians will properly install the unit so that it performs correctly. Any good technician will spend a few minutes after installation to see if the unit is performing correctly. Technicians use computer codes, which is EPA required to guarantee that the unit is properly working, giving him or her clearance amidst venting and the stove. He will check for combustible substances to make sure that your stove is correctly installed. A good technician will check installation to make sure that you have proper security from combustible floors. In addition, the tech will make sure that the unit is assembled correctly to the venting system and to the appliance.

Technicians will check for errors in installation. Using a tech is wise, since if the unit is incorrectly installed you may have problems getting a licensed tech in to repair the problem. If you do likely you will pay more than, if you had of hired a certified technician. Unauthorized installation can put you at risk. You home could burn down.

You could find yourself battling environmental health problems. Certified technicians take care to insure that the units work properly.

The size, where the woodstove fits in the room is important to a certified technician. The tech wants to make sure that the unit is fit for the best heat distribution.

Venting system is important. Sometimes the venting system is a chimney. Some woodstoves sold today have engines that drive them to burn wood without improper actions. A certified technician will decide if the venting system has efficient draft. Woodstoves with proper sizing as well as avoidance of oversized flues is something a certified technician will check

also. The height is important, which is supposed to be higher than the size of the original height. Code requirements verify the height level. The location is important, not only to give you properly heat distribution, but to keep away extreme cold conditions. Configuration is essential to avoid extreme level runs and systems that could turn direction. Go EPA approved.

Wood Burning Stoves and EPA Approved Fireplaces

EPA certified wood burning stoves and fireplaces size to fit properly in homes with a venting system to guarantee your safety. Venting helps to deliver sufficient drafting that reduces the consumption of wood burned. Heat circulates properly when venting works, as it should. Woodstoves burning properly will reduce risks of fires and maintenance.

Woodstoves that produce heavy smoke affects your health. If you breathe in heavy smoke or fumes, it can affect your lungs and heart. If you have a disease already, such as heart conditions, lung disease, or other type of disease, a heavy produced smoking stove can take your life. Children and elderly people are more susceptible to smoke induced disease. Since heavy smoking stoves cause air pollution, violating our environment it puts other people at risk also. Smoke affects our health one pound at a time, continuing to build up until it attacks every body pound in our body. It is a slow death.

When buying woodstoves you need to learn requirements and recommendation to avoid risks of installing. Professional technicians often follow requirements when installing woodstoves, which include correctly installing the stove to the clearance volume that fits amidst the woodstove, ventilation system, and the combustible supplies. Pro techs will check for correct installation to insure your protection against floor combustion. The woodstoves require proper installation and assembly of the appliances, as well as the ventilation components to avoid problems that could put you at risk.

Once a certified technician installs your stove, you can start learning how to build fires properly to avoid additional risks. While some of us may think

that starting a fire is easy, we may fail to realize that there is a right and wrong way to build fires. The key to safety is to remember that fire is dangerous, so we need to show respect. To fire up your stove you want to choose good quality firewood. You want to make sure that you add the correct amount of quality wood to your stove as well.

How to load up your stove:

One of the best ways to consider wood is to consider the season. If the weather is dry and hot, you should avoid using seasonal outdoor wood for a few months. The seasoned woods properly suited for woodstoves is dark, and the grains have cracks at the end. You will know this wood by recognizing a hollow echo after hitting it against other wood. The wood sold in stores has a top cover to keep it dry and is stacked properly to avoid damage. Store wood is the better choice, since it gives you the safety you deserve.

When choosing wood you want to select dry wood, instead of damp wood. The well season woods with good splits and dry is the best option for burning wood in your stove. Use dry firewood and start the fire with clean paper, such as a newspaper. You want the fires to burn bright and hot. Before you start raking your fire, allow the fire to burn down on its own to the coal.

Once the fire burns down, rake the coal so that it moves inward near the stove door, or air inlet. This will create a heap. Avoid spreading the coal so that it flattens. Once you rake the coal, reload your stove. Add a couple more pieces of dry wood, adding the wood behind the heap of coal. In mild

weather light small fires, instead of blazing fires, and at all times do not throw one piece of firewood in your stove at a single time.

Fireplaces and Wood Burning Stoves

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces today offer you added safety. Most of the fireplaces today offer you a theme, which features style, class, elegance and so on. At what time you are searching for fireplaces look for the themes, accessories to set off the theme, price, and safety and so on.

Fact: Did you know that adding a fireplace to your home build equity?

Not only do fireplaces add elegance to a home environment, it gives people a feeling of warmth and relaxation. Fireplaces also give the home an energy saving advantage. Instead of turning up the thermometer, you can use fuelefficient fireplaces to warm up the home.

Still, you want to choose a product that gives you the most advantages. Fireplaces at one time keep people warm, yet today fireplaces provide a dcor, light, and heating system combined.

Fireplaces today offer you a unique twist in its contour. The elegant counter pieces today will fit in Victorian style homes, master rooms, and so on. Today you can purchase indoor and outdoor fireplaces to fit your needs.

Fireplaces today are easier to clean, since you have a choice of gas-powered fireplaces, pellet-powered, or electricity-powered fireplaces. Unlike some of the older fireplaces, the fireplaces today produce heat rather than causing the heat to escape the area. Improper ventilation was the reason that the older fireplaces lost heat, but today the fireplaces have certified venting systems that guarantee the heat will stay where it belongs.

Todays fireplaces do not require use of a chimney to vent. The venting systems inside todays fireplaces have a different structure so that you have a predominant heating unit.

Fireplaces today use certified components to eliminate ventilation through chimneys. The energy efficient units can reduce your heating bill dramatically if installed and used correctly.

How to choose fireplaces: Choosing fireplaces today is not easy. You have so many options available. Some fireplaces you have to setup yourself. You get tool kits, inserts, rugs, stoves, fuel, venting system, and mantles with some kits. Then you have to figure out how to install the kits. Some fireplaces are built for outdoors, while others are for indoor use.

When considering fireplaces you want to figure out what you want from the product. How will you use the fireplace? Do you want indoor or outdoor fireplace? How do you intend to burn your fuel? What type of fuels do you prefer? The type of fuels plays a large factor into what you get when installing fireplaces. To help you choose we can take a moment to review gas, wood, pellets, and electric fireplaces.

About Gas Fireplaces: Gas fireplaces or fireplaces that burn, using gas offer you easy maintenance as well as use.

About wood: Wood fireplaces are historical, yet you can still find these fireplaces today.

Wood fireplaces are harder to keep clean, and you have to follow specific details when burning wood, raking coal, and so on.

About Electric: The electric-powered fireplaces will produce less heat than gas, or wood.

About Pellets: Fireplaces that use pellets to burn typically burn solid fuels. Instead of burning wood, you use fuels.

Once you figure out the type of heating mechanism, you prefer you will need to consider air circulation, venting, etc. Fireplaces give you a couple of options in air circulation. The venting free systems play a part in air circulation. If you have direct vent you will need chimney to run your fireplace. These fireplaces offer you added fuel efficiency. The direct venting fireplaces use a chimney to circulate air from the fireplace. Electric, pellet, and the gas fireplaces today do not always require the use of a chimney. Now that you have your wood burning stove or fireplace installed, put maintenance first.

Maintenance First in Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Putting maintenance first will help you to keep your home safe. If you intend to buy a fireplace or wood burning stove you will need to learn proper installation, wood burning and proper maintenance to keep your home safe. A certified technician, especially for wood burning stoves, should handle installation since the tech will take the time to make sure your unit is working correctly.

Fireplaces give you advantages today. Most fireplaces sold today you can install without hiring a certified technician. Still, a qualified technician should install some of the wood burning fireplaces.

Before you sit down and read maintenance instructions take a moment to think about your product. If you have EPA, fire official recommended unit then you is off to a good start. Woodstoves, vents, chimney, etc should all be inspected annually to insure that you are safe. You will need to learn proper cleaning to keep your unit working safely also. You can learn more about installation, chimney care, and other details by visiting the Safety Chimney Institution of America. The site will offer you list of practiced chimney sweeping tactics.

Putting first thing first in safety you want to install a Firemen Approved smoke and carbon alarm in your home. Follow proper installation procedures to insure your safety. After you have your fire and carbon alarms installed, check your manual to make sure that your unit is correctly installed.

Take measures to keep your home safe. Review the area where you have

installed your wood burning stove or fireplace to make sure that nothing is in the way that could catch fire. For example, is your area clear of books, paper, furniture, drapes, or other items that could cause a fire? If you said no, you have taken time to uphold your safety.

Do you take time to fire up your stove, using fresh, sanitary newspaper? Do you use dry firewood if applicable to start your stove? If you said yes, then you have safety in its place.

DO you use gas, kerosene, propane torches, or charcoal starts to light your wood burning stove? If you said yes, you need to reconsider your fire burning habits, since this is a big fat, no, no.

You want to avoid burning green unseasoned longs or wet logs. In addition, you want to avoid using logs that have sawdust or waxy substances. Manufactured kindling should have a 100% sawdust compression seal.

Take time to monitor your fire. If you build smoldering fires often, you are putting your home and self at risk, only build diminutive, scorching fires.

Never open your stove door, unless you are adding logs, or else raking the coal to get the fire going.

When you are not using your stove, clean the ashes, using metal containers that have a lid. Do not store the ashes in the container outside around wood. Instead, sit it on hard objects, such as cement. Always keep your fire extinguisher on hand.

Tip: A firefighter informed me that a small fire misplaced is just as dangerous as a blazing fire out of control. Fire hides. If you notice misplaced

fire around your area, do not take care of it yourself, rather call the fire department immediately and use your extinguisher to keep the fire under control.

Proper smoke and CO (Carbon) alarms will protect your home. You should install new batteries as recommended by the manufacturer. Every year hundreds of people die from carbon poison. The poisons are produced from woodstoves, or other combustible appliances. Carbon is a silent predator, since it does not produce odors or colors to alert you of danger. Direct stoves and fireplaces are available online, which these products are often the safer to use.

Direct Fireplaces and Wood Burning Stoves

Direct fireplaces and wood burning stoves is something to understand. If you are thinking about buying a fireplace or wood burning stove, you are wise to take time to study the different types sold on the market today.

Fireplaces are usually the pick for most people. Fireplaces give a home a warm, relaxing feeling. Learning the types of fireplaces sold on the market today can help you make a good choice.

Online you will find helpful information to guide you to buying a good fireplace. Some of the models sold today include direct venting, electric, electric II, III, gas I, II, Stone, Rumford, vent-free, and the wood burning fireplaces and stoves. When choosing fireplaces and/or wood burning stoves, you want to think about safety first and theme. If you the appliances are safe to use, then you want a theme that fits your needs.

Adding a fireplace to your home will build equity. Wood burning stoves is not as impressive as the fireplaces, yet you can buy theme-packed stoves on the market today that can give you similar effects as the fireplaces. Wood burning fireplaces, stoves, or other types of fireplaces can supply you with energy efficient advantages. The appliance can help you save money on high-cost heating bills. You will need to learn how to use the appliance efficiency to get the most in saving energy.

Online you will find both indoor and outdoor fireplaces and wood burning stoves.

Fireplaces today are easier to clean, since you have a choice of gas-powered

fireplaces, pellet-powered, or electricity-powered fireplaces. Unlike some of the older fireplaces, the fireplaces today produce heat rather than causing the heat to escape the area. Improper ventilation was the reason that the older fireplaces lost heat, but today the fireplaces have certified venting systems that guarantee the heat will stay where it belongs.

Todays fireplaces do not require use of a chimney to vent. The venting systems inside todays fireplaces have a different structure so that you have a predominant heating unit.

Fireplaces today use certified components to eliminate ventilation through chimneys. The energy efficient units can reduce your heating bill dramatically if installed and used correctly.

How to choose fireplaces: Choosing fireplaces today is not easy. You have so many options available. Some fireplaces you have to setup yourself. You get tool kits, inserts, rugs, stoves, fuel, venting system, and mantles with some kits. Then you have to figure out how to install the kits. Some fireplaces are built for outdoors, while others are for indoor use.

When considering fireplaces you want to figure out what you want from the product. How will you use the fireplace? Do you want indoor or outdoor fireplace? How do you intend to burn your fuel? What type of fuels do you prefer? The type of fuels plays a large factor into what you get when installing fireplaces. To help you choose we can take a moment to review gas, wood, pellets, and electric fireplaces.

About Gas Fireplaces:

Gas fireplaces or fireplaces that burn, using gas offer you easy maintenance as well as use.

About wood: Wood fireplaces are historical, yet you can still find these fireplaces today. Wood fireplaces are harder to keep clean, and you have to follow specific details when burning wood, raking coal, and so on.

About Electric: The electric-powered fireplaces will produce less heat than gas, or wood.

About Pellets: Fireplaces that use pellets to burn typically burn solid fuels. Instead of burning wood, you use fuels.

Once you figure out the type of heating mechanism, you prefer you will need to consider air circulation, venting, etc. Fireplaces give you a couple of options in air circulation. The venting free systems play a part in air circulation. If you have direct vent you will need chimney to run your fireplace. These fireplaces offer you added fuel efficiency. The direct venting fireplaces use a chimney to circulate air from the fireplace. Electric, pellet, and the gas fireplaces today do not always require the use of a chimney. Learn more about the vented gas burning logs.

Wood Burning Stoves and Vented Fireplaces Gas Log

When it comes to buying gas logs, you might consider that they come in two choices the vented logs and the vent-free. The vented gas logs have been around for more than five decades. They remain a popular choice for alot of people. In addition, to the one main reason people choose these choice logs, the vented logs fabricate, producing real-life logs, making them another good choice.

How the vented logs burn: The vented gas logs must have an original fireplace designed to burn the wood wherever the flue is damp, they can be fully opened. With vented gas log options, you will enjoy a fantastic and a natural looking fire. The fire will burn with many yellow color flames that could become smoky, in addition, to the way the open damper, which is a requirement.

Roaring fires with sufficient heat producing from a system is nice. Fireplaces or stoves that produce sufficient heat is good, which you can find fireplaces online such as the medium size fireplaces or stoves that burn sufficiently to produce good heat. Look for seals of approval and stamps. In addition, you need to inspect your chimney before burning vented logs to ensure fumes are clear. The closed logs are yellow flame logs may build soot or carbon, so check the safety when buying wood burning stoves or fireplaces.

If you have the yellow flaming logs, you will need to sweep the chimney the same way as you would sweep wood burning stoves. Fire will produce with vented logs, producing real-like ways that you may not realize that the stoves burn gas. Vented logs are flexible. This means that you can rearrange

them differently. Some of the vent burning gas logs will burn hotter than the common vent logs.

In addition, you can check with a technician to choose the kind of gas log that fits best for you, you should keep in mind that a vented gas logs often have a glass door attached to it. Vented gas log that has the lowest BTU and realistic burning flame will give you a true looking fire and a low operating cost.

The cost efficiency units will help you by saving money on high-cost heating bills. The cost of heating is going up, which is why many people are choosing wood burning stoves, fireplaces verses gas, or electric heat. Save money by shopping around looking for the best deals and the stoves and fireplaces that help to save you money, producing the most heat.

The fireplaces with the reasoning that at what time the logs are installed it are damper and will be partially blocked in an open position. The glass doors will keep heat within your home from escaping your home when you are not running more heat through your house. Therefore, what I am trying to say is that the glass doors will keep all the heat inside your house when you are not burning any wood to produce heat.

The heat would escape from the chimney if you did not have the glass door on the fireplace. When you are burning the firewood, you have to have the glass doors open.

The vented logs that produce gas sold today are tested and certified by qualifying testers. Therefore, when shopping for vent gas logs, look for the certified approved seals and test-approved seals. You want to look around for the legal stamps, (CSA and RADCO) when search for gas logs. Ask the

salesperson for information about the safety also to help you find the safest gas logs to use in your home. Certified wood burning stoves and fireplaces offer you the safety you deserve.

Wood Burning Stoves and Certified Fireplaces

When wood burning stoves and fireplaces are certified after tested, you have a promise that the units will offer you a safe-hazard performance. If you purchase non-certified or tested units, you may put your home at risk of fires, hazardous fumes and so on.

Even if you find certified, tested units you still want to practice safety first to guarantee that your home is safe from fires or fumes.

How to use wood burning stoves and fireplaces safely: Using wood burning stoves to heat your home, you should have proper ventilation. At no time should you smell fumes or smoke. Smoke is not healthy when breathed and nor are odors that come from smoke healthy. If you do not smell fumes or smoke then it is a sign that your wood burning stove or fireplace is burning safely and efficiency.

Certified EPA units often offer you safety, since the stoves or fireplaces will burn efficiently by releasing around 70% smoke that goes out of your chimney instead of in your home.

Properly installing your fireplace or wood burning stove is the start to ensuring that you have a safe home. Stamped and sealed units have environmentalist recommendations that state you should have your unit installed by a certified technician.

Technicians licensed and certified will ensure that your unit is installed properly. You will rest assure knowing you have safe installment. The

technician will hook up all components, including ventilation to make sure you have a safe, efficient unit operating in your home.

Certified wood burning stoves will burn more efficiency. The older stoves produced more Creosote and soot in the chimneys, whereas to days certified units will not build as much.

About Creosote: Creosote comes from wood preservatives. Creosote is a thick, yellowish or brownish oil-based substance, which derives from coal tar and used in wood preservation. The oil is a colorless substance deriving from wood tar, and is used as a common antiseptic. When the tar produces in the chimney, it creates a dark brownish to black tar like deposit inside the chimney flue. At what time this happens the wood, pines, resinous woods, when burnt produces a flammable tar that is fire hazardous. In short, Creosote is combustible left over or residue that forms from the gases of wood that has not yet burnt thoroughly.

If creosote builds, too much it can cause a fire to your chimney. During the late 90s, over 150 people suffered injuries from this type of fire, over 35 people died, over 18,200 fires started in homes, which cost more than $150 damage to properties, and health care expenses.

To ensure that your home is safe, you should have a licensed technician install the unit. Once you have a certified tech install the stove or fireplace make sure to follow requirements and recommendation in maintenance to ensure that your home is safe. Fire officials and environmentalists tell us to inspect chimneys, woodstoves, ventilation, etc, having it inspected by certified technicians and to clean chimneys, stoves and vents annually to adhere to safety requirements. You can hire experts to sweep your chimney,

which gives you the advantage of keeping your unit working properly, guaranteeing safety to your home.

After your wood burning stove or fireplace is properly installed and verified for safety you want to take measures to prevent fires. Never keep anything burnable around your fireplace or wood burning stove. Always install carbon and smoke alarms in your home to protect your family. Follow instructions when installing fire alarms and carbon alarms to make sure you are protected. Change the batteries as recommended. Look for the tested and approved seals.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Tested and Approved

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces tested and approved gives you advantages, since you have a promise your unit will work safely, producing sufficient heat so that you save money on heating bills. You have the top performance in tested and approved wood burning stoves and fireplaces. Non-tested and approved fireplaces or wood burning stoves put your home and you at risk. You are at risk of breathing in harmful substances and your home could catch fire.

To ensure your safety look for wood burning stoves and fireplaces tested and approved. Once you find the woodstove or fireplace of choice following recommendations, i.e. have an expert install your unit to make sure it works properly.

How to use wood burning stoves and fireplaces: Using wood burning stoves or fireplaces to heat your home requires that you have proper ventilation. Your home should be safe from fumes or smoke, rather the smoke should release out of your chimney. Smoke is dangerous, since it has fumes that produce combustible, fire hazardous creosote. If you smell fumes or smoke, then your unit is not burning correctly. As well, you are wasting money, since most of your heat is not circulating in the proper areas it should be circulating.

Tested and approved units offer you efficiency and safety. The wood burning stoves or fireplaces have seals that promise you that your unit will burn competently by releasing nearly 100% of the smoke and fumes out of your chimney.

Once you choose your wood burning stove or fireplace, have a certified technician install the unit. Making sure the unit is properly installed ensures that you have safety working correctly in your home. Tested and approved wood burning stoves and fireplaces have the back of EPA, or environmentalist experts.

To install the unit properly look for certified techs that have a proven background with installing wood burning stoves and/or fireplaces. Techs with proven backgrounds will ensure that your wood burning stove or fireplace is properly installed, burning correctly and that ventilation is properly working.

Properly installing your wood burning stove or fireplaces gives you many advantages. You will save money on heating bills, especially since your unit is performing, as it should. Instead of smoke circulating in your home building creosote, the fumes and smoke will release through your chimney properly.

Creosote derives from wood preservatives. This thick, yellowish or brownish oil-based substance derives from coal tar and used in wood preservation. If this substance is circulating in your home, it is building a colorless oil-based fume that comes from wood tar. The tar builds in the chimney, which puts your home at risk. The dark colored tar deposits build in the flue, producing flammable forms of gasses that have not burned the wood completely. This is the cause behind chimney fires. To ensure a safe home let someone with skills and certifications install the unit. Each year have a certified person sweep your chimney. Experts in fire safety and the pros in environmental tells us to clean once each year our vents, woodstove and chimneys to adhere to safety. Hiring experts to sweep

your chimney will guarantee that your unit is working properly and performing as it should be.

Fire safety tips and health hints: Never should you keep anything flammable around your fireplace or wood burning stove. Keep paper, books, magazines, or related flammable items away from your unit. You should install a carbon (CO) alarm and smoke alarm in your home to protect your home and family. Carbon is dangerous, and will kill you...you will never know that carbon is producing in your home unless you have a CO alarm installed.

Do you like western style?

Wood Burning Stoves and Western Fireplaces

Wood Burning Stoves and western Fireplaces include the antiques or the carved units by hand. Some of the western styles have animals embedded in the unit, or ancient warriors. The fireplaces and wood stoves bring back the good ole days, yet most are non-certified making them a higher risk than the modern wood stoves and fireplaces. Contemporary or modern wood burning stoves and fireplaces do not offer the same formation as the western designs. Enthusiasts often admire the opportunities that create uniqueness and compelling interior designs.

Western fireplaces and wood burning stoves fit the country style that many people enjoy. They often look for the best quality of western styles when buying certified fireplaces and wood burning stoves today. Quality stoves and fireplaces designed today give you the best value for your money. Exclusive ranges split into four different sections, including the stone fireplaces, marble, designer, and the wooden fireplaces.

You have choices today, which enable you to opt for the most innovative slabs of stylish fireplaces that give you the top statement in western styles. Wood burning stoves and fireplaces today created offer the most retro concepts in designs, since the units were borrowed from the atmospheric heritages of our ancestors style.

About stone fireplaces: The stone fireplaces were built from the most elegant and enduring pieces of the finest architectural. Today you can look forward to western designs that

stand up to heritage testimonies. The beautiful patterns and designs made of stone give you a striking effect in your home, since much date back to our earliest ancestors creations. The stone-made lintel brackets surround open walls about freestanding fire baskets, which developed as slow creations to give you the most for your money. Creators placed great emphasis on chimneypieces to incorporate mantels and designs. You can find any style to fit any home.

Stone fireplaces add wealth effects to Tudor homes, Victorian homes, or other types of homes. The arches made of stone treated as the segments of panel walls that gives you the Renaissance of European style. The Renaissance of European artisans generated these fireplaces, placing value on western and European styles.

In the beginning, most households added the wood carved shelves that stood above the arches, yet grander effects followed the classic designs of pillars. These designs entablature, self-perhaps layering coats of arms carved from the center friezes. The patterns followed streams of western and Edwardian revivalism, which brought the strengths of dignity to the stone designs, making them endurable, safe and non-flammable. Fireplaces today lend to intricate carved, bold dynamic forms. The arches peak over Elizabethan designs offer impressively detailed bacchanalia over regencies of its pieces of stone. The stones afford authenticity to any Edwardian revivalism and Victorian respectively bringing you the top of the line stone fireplaces that suit any home.

Georgian eras gave witness to revivals of the latest classical fireplaces. The fireplaces give reaction, striking against the convolution of Baroque arts,

architectural and reflect the fabulous aristocratic fashions of the fine Grand Tours. This gave birth to the latest cultural patterns of odyssey that stemmed from Europeans undertaking the young men of leisure to a climax of Italy journeys. Subsequence influences gave the classical arts and architectural evident Georgian styles evolving from the finest Georgian and once known as the lovely Dcors of Queen Anne. She encapsulated Dutch elements from Palladian, and the extravagant Neo-Classical. The culminating lights of delicacy make some of the fireplaces Regency designs. This era brings broadly referrals of Neo-Classical that at one time were synonymously elegant and laced with symmetry orders.

Wood Burning Stoves and Georgian Fireplaces

Georgian fireplaces have interior patterns and external designs that make these products some of the newest founded units that place emphasis on entertainment. The fireplaces intended to give illustrations of cultural affluences along with wealthy of materialist patterns today. Fireplaces today offer you inevitable focus over any room design you choose taking you to incorporate periods of classical elements. Evolutional fireplaces designed today put fire in its place. The fireplaces burn efficiently, surrounding inventions that keep you safe with proper ventilation over a Renaissance of Italy taste. Designed to fit the classical line of the namely pair of jambs, fitting both sides of the hearth gives the fireplaces of today entablature links to two different patterns.

Wood Burning Stoves and Modern Fireplaces today are either carved by hand, or fit to give an antique design. Warriors of ancient times and animals fill carvings within some of todays fireplaces.

Contemporary make up a line of the most up to date fireplaces, which formations take you through patterns that enthusiasts admire from created uniqueness that compels the interior of any home. Designs coming form western countries take you across patterns of incorporated selections that fit quality, giving you the value you deserve. Exclusive ranges split changing the patterns, giving you choices of wood fireplaces, elegant designers, marble and the finest of stone.

Slabs of innovative stones make a lasting statement, which correlates with

retro of borrowed patterns from heritages of our ancestors, giving you the choice to enjoy any Georgian, western style pattern that fits your budget and tastes. Arches of stone or marble make up beautiful pieces of enduring architectural patterns that withstand any testimony from ancestors or todays modern folks. The strikingly beautiful fireplaces made of stone give you a historical effect. The stones lintel brackets stretch over open walls of patterns that correlate around freestanding fire baskets. Emphasis placed on its creation takes you through elaborations of chimneypieces that came to view, incorporating parts of mantels, creating a wealth of designs to fit any home. Some of the fireplaces today fit niches of Tudor homes, giving the arch stone effect otherwise treated as parts of panel walls that carried on after the Renaissances of European artisans who generated its formation. The older fireplaces carved of wood was the common choice for ancestors. Yet today the stone arches replace the wood giving a grander effect combined with classical patterns of pillars that parts building structure above columns of classic architecture with sections of that lie between the roof and columns, some of coats of arms carved by hand around the center of friezes.

Today you have twists of Edwardian revivalism, giving you strength to fit any design. Durable fireplaces today offer you state of the art effects, course, durable and non-flammable patterns that fit your budget and home.

Todays fireplaces lend a hand to intricate carves of dynamic boldness and shapes. You will find the Georgian style with twists of Elizabethan. The peaks in this style of arches will give a lasting, detailed and impressive look

of ancient Roman festivities over a historical religion concept of honorable men and Bacchus heritages that involve orgiastic rites on Regency pieces of fine stone afforded to give you authenticity to any Victorian and Edwardian revivalism, bringing strengths and dignity to any design. Georgians witnessed revivals of Classical styles, which affected styles that caused reactions against convolutions of Baroque artistic patterns and architecture that reflected on the aristocratic fashion for the Grand Tour.

The tours take you back through cultural odysseys onto the European styles that carry on from the men of leisure on forward to climaxes of Italian journeys. The sub-sequential influences give you Classics of fine arts and architecture, evident to fit Georgian designs.

Georgian designs evolved from earlier Georgians, such as the dcors of Queen Anne, encapsulated with traces of Dutch traits through Palladian and the ancient Neo-Classic patterns that culminate light textures, delicately to fit Regency styles. The era is largely referred to as Neo-Classical, meaning new, and as such has long been tantamount with elegance, symmetry arrangement. Warming up to wood burning stoves and fireplaces today gives you comfort also, since you save energy.

Warming up to Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Warm up to wood burning stoves and fireplaces by saving the most energy. A wood burning fireplace gives you a twist of romance, warmth, etc, yet when you save energy, you get the most of your unit.

The cost of energy is continuing to rise. The records today are higher than ever, which makes it difficult for many to stay afloat with gas bills. Now you can save money by installing a fireplace or wood burning stove into your home.

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces have a trail of folklores that mislead many people. Some people believe that these units do not have the potential of saving them energy. The fact is however that the fireplaces and wood burning stoves today will save you energy.

Some of the best products are approved by EPA, which provides you sufficient power in heating. The rooms will stay warm whilst emitting nearly no smoke from the wood burnt. To days, wood burning stoves and/or fireplaces require wood, but you use less than you would use in the older stoves and fireplaces.

Inserts into the fireplaces today have similar traits that make them perform

and function as the freestanding units. The intended installation makes the fireboxes open fireplaces, especially when installed by recommendation of EPA. When the units are properly installed, it gives you insert benefits, including cost-efficiency.

The fireplaces today burn wood only, making them safe and efficient to heat any home with less production of smoke circulation. You have many options. Some of the wood burning stoves and fireplaces sold today give you near 100% efficiency to save energy.

Installing glass doors could increase efficiency more than 80%. Installing a glass door will give you advantages, since the heat instead of spreading to your chimney will spread to your room. This means your negative flues are converted to complete warm.

Adding blower grates to the glass door will save you additional money on heating costs. You can find fireplaces on the Internet with blowers included, or customize your unit now to save money. The fireplaces with high cubic feet blowers per minute can save you loads of money. Look for the CFM seals. CFM seals will increase your energy efficiency up to 90 + percentage in cost. Blowers can save loads of cash from distributing additional heat around your home environment. The baffle sits at the top of some fireplaces or in the front of other fireplaces, which rests around the blowers. Baffles will slow down blowing air, so that the heat stays within the boundaries of your room. Grates permit you complete benefits of using your fireplace while the blower will keep creosote within its boundary.

Todays gas bills and heating costs a fortune. The price is steadily increasing causing an extreme problem for those of us who cant afford to heat our

homes. The latest fireplaces and wood burning stoves give us an option, since now we can heat our home for half the price of heating bills.

Nowadays to heat a one-bedroom apartment it costs around $200 plus, the fireplaces and wood burning stoves can save you half this cost, if not more. Sure, you may have to pay for firewood, but you can find bargains to save you money, or cut your own wood.

Some of the fireplaces today run from electric or other sources, which the logs are authentic to the eye, yet made of structures that burn forever. You can find these fireplaces, which burn sufficiently, you do not have to buy firewood, and you can save money on your heating bill. Once you find the unit of choice, learn your options in wood burning stoves and fireplace vents.

Options in Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplace Venting

How to choose the best vents for your fireplaces or wood burning stoves: You have a couple of choices when it comes to fireplace and wood burning stove venting. Ventilation is important, since it is a way to circulate air in addition to exposing air to produce sufficient heat in your room.

Ventilation should offer you economical savings. The B-pipe vents designed to fit chimneys use air from the room, using it as combustible formulation to vent like ordinary furnaces, terminating air from the rooflines. This type offers you a flashy style and produces low efficiency in circulation. You have no clearances to any combustibles, and the vent is easier than some others to install are. You can save the depth of space. However, you need

finishing. Mantels and a surround are recommended.

The B-types are larger. You have direct ventilation and fewer expenses with this type of vent.

Do I need a chimney: The vent-free types are the gas fireplaces? You do not need a chimney to operate the fireplace. You do not need vents or flues either, since it has incorporated features to produce heat without needing any assistance. If you like this type, you can save loads of cash. Look for the gas vent-free fireplaces, inserts, stoves, gas logs, etc.

How to choose wisely for saving energy and money: The vent-free fireplaces cost less than the units requiring ventilation did, and the cost of operation is lower. The free of vent units give you nearly 100% cost-effective energy savings while providing you warmth that covers you even when the power is out.

These fireplaces, stoves, etc fit standards of national safety codes and regulations. You dont have to worry about the BTU/Hr, of the heats output exceeding over forty thousand.

NOTE: In some regions, the law prohibits this type of fireplace or stove. Check with your local officials at the Building Department to find out if you can install these fireplaces or stoves.

It is nuts to think that the building laws would prohibit this type of fireplace or stove, since these are some of the safest to use. It goes to show that money is behind some of the notions spent on issuing these laws, since gas companies will not make the revenue they would make if people hadnt

installed these units. The only safe hazard issues of installing these units depend on various factors, such as electric-based units. The worst that could happen would be an electric outing, or volt of electricity causing damage to a person from misuse and negligence of maintenance.

How direct ventilation benefits your home:

Direct vents are another type of ventilation to consider. This type of vent uses coaxial piping units to draw combustible air from an outside pipe. You have a smaller and larger pipe working together. The inside pipe is used to vent exhaustion and can vent from the back or top. This means installation is versatile. The vents function from parallel levels and through the outer regions of walls, or upright to the roof. You do not need a chimney.

Directs are suitable for heating colder rooms, offering you cost efficient savings and warmth. You will find a wide array of products online certified tested and acts as fuel wall furnaces, i.e. you get the most for your buck. The clearances is nil to the combustion and installation is almost easy enough that you wouldnt need a licensed tech. The vent will save you depth space. You should always have enclosing fronts. This vent is ideal for homes with good insulation. Safety upheld is important when choosing vents, or fireplaces.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Safety Upheld Safety in Wood Burners

When thinking about adding a wood stove to your home to save money and energy there is some things to consider. Sure wood may be cheaper to heat your home, especially if you can find free wood. Consider the fact that if anyone in your home has asthma wood burners it may not be the best thing for their health. Always keep safety in mind when you are thinking about having a woodstove installed in your home.

Once you have decided to put a wood burner in your home, the EPA woodstove inserts are one of the most effective if properly installed. It will give many benefits to your family and save money in the end. Wood burners are very efficient and safer with more heat efficiency and less smoke. If not properly installed, it can cause a house fire or maybe death. Be sure that there is only a thin wisp of steam coming from your chimney when using wood to be safe. You should never smell smoke when burning wood; if you do it means there is a problem and needs to be corrected immediately. When having your stove installed have a professional installer certified to be on the safe side. Make sure that there is a vent running to the exterior from your stove.

The vent will keep your stove from smoking. Smoke from your heater causes creosote to build up in the chimney. Creosote is a combustible form of wood gases that is not being burned completely. This build up will cause a house fire very easily.

On a yearly basis your chimney, woodstove and vents should all be professionally cleaned by a chimney sweeps. If you cant find one near you, check out the Internet and youll find listings of many chimney sweeps located in your area or nearest you.

When using a wood burner always keep safety in mind. Install your stove away from curtains or anything that could be flammable. Practice safety when starting the fire by using dry kindling and clean newspapers. Never use gasoline. Kerosene, charcoal starter or propane torch is not recommended either. Make sure your wood is seasoned and dry. Any wood with sawdust or wax should not be used. If you use manufactured wood, be sure it is 100% sawdust and not have anything else mixed in with it. Dont let your fire smolder, make sure it is small and hot. Always check to make sure the doors are completely closed unless refueling the stove. Remove the ashes often by putting them into a metal container with a lid and set it outside away from the house or anything made of wood; a brick or cement slab is recommended. Always have a fire extinguisher near by.

Whenever installing a woodstove or any combustion appliance, be sure to install a fire alarm and a carbon monoxide detector. Heating with wood can be very dangerous if safety isnt followed, causing a house fire or carbon monoxide that could result in death. The fire alarm should be installed professionally when the stove is installed to make sure it is in the proper location.

The battery should be checked once a month to make sure that it is in full charge. If there should be any smoke or fire the fire alarm will go off to give your family warring that something is wrong.

The carbon monoxide detector is to notify your family of the harmful chemicals that come from smoke. People die due to CO poisoning from the chemicals in smoke. It is colorless and odorless reducing the blood ability to carry the oxygen in it.

Practice safety when installing a woodstove and enjoy the heat. Choosing inserts is ideal if you want the highest efficiency level.

Choosing Inserts in Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

You hear the term inserts when looking for wood burning stoves or fireplaces and wonder what it means. Inserts are fashioned to deliver top of the line heat over an atmospheric way to fit your mood. If you have the older masonry type of fireplaces, adding an insert will save you money on heating. You can find pellets, gas, electric, or wood burning inserts online.

Inserts tend to work with vents, which include the B-Vents. Natural gas, propane and other types of inserts are available as well. The B-vents burn from gas appliances, which combustion from the air descends outside the home, which means the heat stays in and the harmful substances go out.

Direct vents also include the natural gas and propane. The appliances use direct vents to draw combustible air from the outdoors and uses specially designed features to exhaust the combustible substances eliminating the need for a chimney. Directs may include glass panels to keep combustible air from spreading in the home, the seals help to maintain the highest efficiency possible, as well as quality of air indoors. Electric inserts may offer on and off remotes, making it easy for you to relax while enjoy warm fires burning from real-like logs. Another type of insert includes the vent-free. The inserts work with gas appliances in a way that a flue is unnecessary. The units operating from vent-free inserts offer you the highest efficiency also. You will need to see

city requirements in your area before buying this type of insert, since some areas forbid the use. Pellet inserts is another type that offers you 100% assurance of no additives or sawdust from wood. Woods or pellets with sawdust are byproducts, which may contain buried wastes. If you are searching for wood burning, inserts check around since many sizes are available. You want to find the right fit for your wood burning fireplace or stove.

The Osburn models offer you the highest efficiency insert that works with painted doors. Look for the EPA approval and certified seals when searching for high efficiency wood inserts. Some of the products offered have a near two-Cubic feet firebox. The units are great for installing in the older masonry types of fireplaces. You will find the black metallic finished inserts, which function well as cast iron doors. The door handles adjust to fit. You have an air washing system that makes glass cleaners do its job. Some inserts have CFM 110 blowers, and a lifetime limited warranty. Again, you want to shop around so that you find the suitable insert for your fireplace or wood burning stove. If you havent purchased a wood burning stove or fireplace at this time, yet plan to do so, check out the Internet where you will find units with inserts included. Some of the latest fireplaces and wood burning stoves do not have inserts, yet you will have the option of choosing inserts to fit. How to choose inserts: Go online to find inserts. Online you will find helpful hints and tips that guide you to buying the right inserts. You want to consider combustibles,

heating capacity, surface as recommended, flue pipe diameters, color, including minimal fireplace opening, log load max length, door open dimensions, door type, and so on. Various other factors, such as clearances to materials with combustible abilities, glass surface, such as the pyroceramic glass, etc. Look for lifetime warranties also. While you are shopping online look for the wood burning stoves and fireplaces info centers to help you get the most out of your unit. Combustible fireplaces and wood burning stoves is outdate after the new arrives of products came to the market.

Wood Burning Stoves and Combustible Fireplaces

Todays stoves and fireplaces produce combustible substances just as the masonry fireplaces and stove did in the old days. The difference is the combustible substances are screened today so that most of the flammable or combustibles go out of the home instead of inside the home. |

The older stoves and fireplaces often were connected to a chimney, which the flue would build creosote, a substance created from combustible oils that came from the wood, which created fire hazards. Many homes have burnt down due to the combustible substances building in the flue.

While in the old days good working stoves and fireplaces proved true to heating a home, still the hazards were there. Today, inserts, vents, and other components make it possible to burn wood burning stoves and fireplaces without worrying about fires or other hazards, such as inhaling creosote smoke. Soot build up is not a problem with most of wood burning stoves and fireplaces today. Now, you have so many choices that you can eliminate soot and creosote combined.

Some of the fireplaces sold today burn gas, which the logs appear real, yet they are superficial components that burn natural logs, burning from a fuel safe to use. Some of the fireplaces operate from electric, while others perform using propane. You have a wide array of options available today, making the fireplaces and wood burning stoves safe to use.

Fireplaces today are made from the finest stone, marbles, brick, etc, and some have bookshelves built in so that you can arrange the mantel so that it looks attractive in the home.

The wood burning stoves today while innovative to fit safety have a pattern of Edwardian, Georgian, Victorian and other styles that make the stoves and fireplaces give a feeling of heritage from our ancestors. You have comfort, warmth and history all in one casing.

The fireplaces and wood burning stoves today have glass windows, or other style of windows to keep heat inside the room. Instead of heat going outside, you can relax knowing that the wood burning stove and/or fireplace is doing its job. You have energy savers, which means you, can cut heating bills back to almost a half depending on the style of fireplace or wood burning stove you choose.

What is nice about the wood burning stoves and fireplaces today is that some do not require the use of a chimney flue to expel combustible fumes and smoke from the home. Instead, the fireplaces and/or wood burning stoves use vents to release any harmful substances out of the house.

The fireplaces and wood burning stoves today releases up to 90% of combustible fumes and smoke so that you have a safer environment to reside while staying warm.

The EPA certified fireplaces and wood burning stoves offer you a safe hazard guarantee that you can warm your home without worrying about combustible fumes or smoke inhalation, or exposure.

Firefighters tested and approved many of the EPA fireplaces and wood burning stoves to make sure that consumers had a safe heating mechanism to keep them warm. No longer do you have to worry about fire hazards, carbon inhalation, smoke inhalation, etc, since now you have top of the line vent systems to guarantee your safety.

Today, heating expenses is soaring to the top that it is next to impossible to pay bills. Many people are seeing shut-off notices, or finding it hard to pay the bills on time. For this reason, technology advanced to save energy by offering some of the safest, cost efficiency fireplaces and wood burning stoves on the market. Do you like Victorian, go fireplaces and wood burning stoves online now.

Victorian Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Stoves and fireplaces fit the old masonry Victorian patterns today. The older stoves and fireplaces did not offer safety however as the appliances do today. The units today have screens, windows, vents, inserts, and other components to keep your home safe from smoke, fumes, or fire. Instead of the combustible substances spreading in your home, they are screened, which the combustible substances go out of the home.

The preceding wood burning stoves and fireplaces burn coal, propane, etc, and the fumes would escape through the chimney flue. Creosote, petroleum, oils, gas and energy would all escape the room. Combustible, i.e. flammable oils escaping into the room put people at risk. The oils would often build in the chimney flue, which increased the risks of fire. When the fumes were circulating around the home people would inhale, taking the harmful, explosive substances into their lungs.

Not anymore, since technology advancements has made it possible to create older style Victorian, Edwardian, Georgian, Western and other styles of

fireplaces and wood burning stoves so that the combustible oils go out of the home. You still have the traditional effects, yet you have a safer appliance to use in your home.

Technology designs today give you safety by using inserts, glass windows, vents and other components to prevent fumes from escaping into the flue or into the home. Wood burning stoves and fireplaces combine components to save energy on cost efficient schemes of fire-safe platforms.

Some of the stoves and fireplaces today require that you uphold EPA safety regulations to avoid fires. EPA recommends that you have experts install your unit to make sure that it is working properly. In addition, you will need to hire a chimneysweeper (if applicable) each year to ensure your safety.

Fireplaces or wood burning stoves today burn fuel, or run from electric. You buy Victorian style fireplaces or wood burning stoves to install indoors or outside of your home. Fireplaces burn fuel on superficial logs, which will think you are burning real wood. Alternately, you can purchase wood burning stoves or fireplaces that actually burn wood. You have a wide selection of fireplaces and wood burning stoves safe to use today.

Some of the Victorian styles include the marble, stones, brick, and so on. Some of these fireplaces have inserted bookshelves, mantels, or other elements that make them look attractive. The units today keep your home warm, making you feel comfort while taking you back to our ancestors in a Neo-design pattern.

Fireplaces and wood burning stoves give you options of installing glass windows, direct vents, free vents, or other styles to fit your needs. Heat stays

in your room, instead of escaping outside when you add vents, inserts, or glass windows. You still can achieve the Victorian style.

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces today are energy savers. Instead of paying high heating bills, you can use the Victorian stoves or fireplaces to keep your home warm. Save money, while enjoying the romantic feelings of a fireplace, or just sit back and relax after returning home from a cold, chilling day.

Some wood burning stoves or fireplaces sold today do not include use of a chimney flue to expel combustible fumes and smoke from the environment, which makes the units safer to use. Still, you can find fireplaces and wood burning stoves that do use chimney flues to expel fumes and smoke, yet most are EPA approved.

The EPA certified fireplaces and wood burning stoves are the safer products, so shop around if you are searching for wood burning stoves and fireplaces to find the Victorian styles that fit your budget and needs.

Wood EPA Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

If you are considering a wood burning stove or fireplace to install in your home with the goal to save money and energy, then think of the safe units. Wood sometimes is cheaper to heat homes only if you can find cheap or free wood. Otherwise, you will spend money year round to replace wood to burn your stove or fireplace. You have other options today.

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces today sometimes use asthma wood, which is not always safe to use. To avoid interrupting your environment and home with unsafe products, take time to learn about the wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

If you consider wood burners, check out the line of EPA woodstove inserts. The inserts offer you effective ways to heat your home, providing the units correctly installed. If you have the unit correctly installed your family will benefit from lower heating bills.

Wood burners, stoves and fireplaces today are very efficient and safer to use. The units today produce less creosote and smoke. You want to make sure the unit, however are correctly installed, since deaths have occurred from improper installation. You want to make sure that stream wisps that come from the chimney after using wood is thin.

While you are burning wood you should not smell smoke at anytime, otherwise your unit may be installed incorrectly.

If this is the case, hire a certified technician to examine the problem immediately to avoid problems. It pays to have your unit installed upon purchase by a certified technician to avoid these problems. A licensed technician will take time to make sure the unit is correctly installed. The tech will check the vent to make sure that the exterior and interior components are running safely.

Most stoves or fireplaces today come with vent systems. The systems designed to keep your wood burning stove or fireplace from expelling smoke or fumes around the house. If smoke is coming from your heating system, creosote will start to build in the chimney flue. This is a combustible type of gas, which is harmful to your health and puts you at risk of fire.

Environmentalist experts, EPA tell us to sweep the chimney annually to avoid house fires. The vents need to be cleaned as recommended, as well as

the chimney to avoid putting your family at risk. You can find licensed techs in your phone book, or go online to use directories to find someone in your area.

Wood burning stoves or fireplaces should be used only with safety in mind. The stoves or fireplaces should never be installed near flammable items, such as curtains, or paper. You want to put safety ahead of any other detail when installing wood burning stoves or fireplaces in your home.

What EPA recommends is that you avoidKeeping flammable items around wood burning stoves or fireplaces, such as paper, cloth, plastic, etc and only use dry firewood to start new fires. Use seasoned, dry wood when starting fires. Sawdust and/or waxy wood should be avoided. Manufactured firewood is best, especially if it does not have mixed with something other than sawdust.

When you start a new fire, avoid using charcoal starter fluids, propane torches, gasoline or kerosene to get the fire going. Once you have your fire going, make sure it is burning hot and not smoldering. You want a small fire.

After your wood burning stove or fireplace is installed correctly, take time to check your smoke alarms and carbon (CO) alarms. If you do not have any alarms installed in your home, buy the proper alarm systems now to avoid putting your home and family at risk. Carvings make nice accessories that add flare to your fireplace or wood burning stoves, check them out.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplace Carvings

Wood carved fireplaces and stoves give you a taste of modern twists with

delightful patterns of western styles. Ancient arts carefully embed into some of the wood burning stoves and fireplaces today. The creators add a twist of Neo designs to the carvings so that you have old in a new way. You will not find modern marks that create the warmth and elegance as the woods today create. The ornamentals take you through the history of human experiences. You can now share the beauty of experiences that our ancestors enjoyed.

Texture of the wood today gives you energy in a positive light. Some of the top choices in modern carvings include the Onlay. The woodcarving pierces history that goes back to the seventh hundredths. Back in the 17th era, richness of dcor and extravagant twists pierced the carvings on wood that brought all-embracing elegance to architectural formation of furniture, fireplaces, and so on. Back in the day, ancestors carved artistically patterns of ornate designs that gave a sharp edge to patterns and styles created. Using razor-sharp hand blades the ancestors created some of the designs that left a landmark for modern people. Its charm, elegancy and characteristics gave way to the Victorian, Georgian, Edwardian, and Queens from afar. Ancestors carved animals, people, and other artistic notes onto some of the older fireplaces and wood burning stoves. Marks of popular creators imprinted left the designs cut, pierced and branded to leave a lasting impression. Often woodcarvings are attached to fireplaces to make them more attractive. Online you will find wood burning stoves and fireplaces that have attachments carved by hand, such as the cabinet doors, mantels, bars, walls and more. Some of the popular items sold include the brands of islands that

take you into ancestors of old, kitchenettes and onto the walls of famous historical eras.

Online you can find elegant clusters of grape carvings embedded into some of the fireplaces and wood burnings stoves sold today. These are the Onlay designs. The carvings are available unattached to fireplaces or wood burning stoves also. The purpose is to give you options in mounting the Onlay to your own fireplace or woodstove. You can affix the layers to back boards, walls, or to your fireplace.

How to choose woodcarvings: Choosing woodcarvings to fit your wood burning stove and/or fireplace is easy. Your best option is to visit the Internet where carvings are sold so that you have an idea of what you want. You can use the helpful information to gain insight before purchasing the products, choosing the best choice to fit your budget and needs. If the wood has a deeper relief and a depth greater than, it often makes a strengthening piece of carving that will last a lifetime. Wood Burning Stoves and fireplaces hand carved or antique created give you the style you deserve. Hand carved is often the better choice, since kind hands took time out of their busy schedule to embed historical moments, animals, or ancient warriors into the creases and cracks of each piece of wood.

You can find the modern fireplaces and contemporary wood burning stoves online today with some of the top of the line carvings. Enthusiasts took delight in designed these carvings to give you compelling designs in a

unique way. Today, you can bring to your home Georgian, Western, Edwardian, or Victorian patterns. If you already have a fireplace or wood burning stove, go online to check out mantels or other carvings that perhaps you can bring these old styles into your home environment. Efficiently first, or safety when burning fireplaces or wood burning stoves:

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Efficiency First How to tell if fireplace is burning efficiently Life is all about safety and precautions. It is about perfection as much as we can attain, if not entirely. As human beings, we cannot be perfect but can machines and appliances? The answer is, yes they can be! The perfection does not only imply to manufacturing but it encompasses their proper and efficient working. Here we are going to learn about the signs and indicators that verify the efficient burning of stoves and fireplaces. These signs must be observed carefully. This perfection will make them last longer and it will be safer for you to use them. You have purchased a wood burning stove, which is in accordance to the area you want to warm and your requirement. The fireplace has been set taking all the safety measures. Yet, how disappointing it would be when, you sit down to enjoy the pleasures of that burner and you could not? Reason being your fireplace, is not burning efficiently, therefore, you have to make sure that fire is burning properly, which is not very difficult. With little care and check you can ensure the efficient working of your burner. The improved performance will enhance your satisfaction from the stove. How to tell if your fire is burning correctly: First, look at the fire, if it is burning brightly or not. If light is bright it means that fireplace is burning effectively. The bright and lively flames are result of proper combustion done. When the combustion is proper there is less harmful emission made from the fire, thus it will be healthier if the flames are lively.

Once your burner is set on fire, see the amount of smoke it is producing. If there is very little or no smoke and fire seems clean, it is another indication of efficient burning. The incomplete combustion will mark an inefficient stove.

When that inefficient stove is lit, it will produce dark and smelly smoke, which will not only ruin the beauty of your home but would be injurious to the health of people living in that house. Excess of carbon monoxide when inhaled can prove to be fatal. As a safety measure, you must be careful about the emissions. How your chimney tells you if combustible fumes and smoke is going out of the vents properly. If your chimney is emanating excessive smoke that too is sign of poor combustion. It should be remembered that dull, steady flames are a result of lack of oxygen in the process of combustion. The energy is released from burning process only if the fuel is properly oxidized. These are very small factors but contribute a lot to your as well as your appliances life. It depends upon you how much you care for your hard-earned money the only way to comfort you and your family. Avoiding or overlooking will cost no one but you. So, better is to be a little careful about small things rather than giving way to disasters. No system can be fool proof but it does not mean that one should ignore the safety. Further, there are always chances of human forgetfulness. So always, make sure to install smoke alarms in your house and repeatedly keep checking that they are in order.

To learn more about keeping your home safe from fire, smoke, and creosote we encourage you to visit the Internet to find EPA warnings, tips, hints, and more. The guidelines offered to you at online sites will help you to protect your home while burning wood in fireplaces or woodstoves. FP is something to consider when searching for wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces FP How to find the best online information over WBS &FP Science and technology combine the top of the line sources to curse new creations, or to cure the problems from older creations, including the wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

Today we can look forward to use old technology to get the most benefits from the latest inventions. Technology joins with science in new ways to produce extensive lines of products that function from the top informational channels in its beginning. You have advantages in making things possible you ordinarily wouldnt have. Today, technology develops new fireplaces and wood burnings stoves to the top peaks, i.e. now with one click of a button you can get your fire blazing. Fireplaces and wood burning stoves today allow you to snap your fingers to discover information that takes you over a selection of innovative tools, person, place, object and more. You have technology revolutions that take you to bliss of ready-to install products that save you money. The rules of engagement apply to fireplaces and wood burning stoves today, since now you have safer appliances and the ability to save money on heating costs.

Steel pins could be easily added to the property, saving you loads hassles and time to handle your daily life. You do not need to worry about finding items, hunting them down in haystacks, like looking for a needle. Now you can go to the online shopping stores to find the most up-to-date valuable inventions of IT productions. Online shopping areas take you across eras of hearth where you find grates of glass fireplaces, i.e. fireplaces with elegant glass doors. Inventions today deliver to you vents of glass logs or take you to the guarded tools of safety and cost-efficiency. You have a web of tool sets to grates and then bellows to chose or you can take hold of the hand created mantels and design your own unique style. The fireplaces and wood burning stoves today offer you a mesh of screens, fireboxes, and more to help you keep your home warm during cold winter months. Use the search engine to find the top quality wood burning stoves and fireplaces. The wood burning stoves and fireplaces are no exception as well. There are a number of helpful web pages dealing entirely with burning stoves and fireplace needs. Use the search engine, log into the sites where you will find introductions to a variety of stoves and fireplaces to fit your needs. The wood burning stoves and fireplaces today offer you a wider array of characteristics. The salient features of the products offer you a wide array of helpful vents, inserts and more to keep your home safe. Fireplace and wood burning stoves offer installation services along with selling services to their customers. You can use the services for help in beautifying your wood burning fireplaces or stoves, creating it into a cleaner and environmental friendly gas burner.

Because of high competition, online stores try to be one-step ahead of others in helping you shop with them for your complete needs in fireplace setup and more. Supplies of stylish and cost-efficient wood burning stoves and fireplace to keep your home feeling warm while adding to the dcor is easier to accomplish today, which you also achieve reliability over a channel of appliances to fit your budget. If you want style, cost-efficiency, safety, and more you can now achieve all to your likings by searching the top of the line products online. Look for the products approved and tested to give you safety over cost-efficiency. Stylish fireplaces and wood burning stoves are available online, so check em out.

Wood Burning Stoves and Stylish Fireplaces

Wood Burning Stoves and Modern Fireplaces carved to fit any style are available today. You can find EPA approved units available, which provide you opportunities in heating your home while saving money on heating bills. The cost of gas is rising to the point that people cannot make ends meet. Installing a wood burning stove or fireplace is an option that allows us to make those meets come together.

You can find fireplaces for as low as $599 to heat your home. The fireplace can produce sufficient heat to supply at least one room. If you are on a budget save a few pennies here and there so that, you can purchase enough

fireplaces to support each room in your home. On the other hand, you can invest in low-cost wood burning stoves that will supply sufficient heat to keep at least three rooms warm. Some units offer more than others, so check around for the best deals. If you already have a fireplace or wood burner you can purchase mantels, inserts, vents, or other items online to help save you money. The vents and inserts offer you a support system to keep your home safe and warm. Mantels are idea for designing your fireplace or wood burning stove. You can install the mantel onto your current unit to achieve historic patterns, or modern dcors. The modern and contemporary fireplaces form designs that fit patterns that have impressed enthusiasts for decades. You have the opportunity to create your own unique styles, which you can accomplish compelling interior designs to accommodate any home. The West Country Fireplaces offer you a range of modern styles that incorporate selections of the best quality, best designs and the best value for your money. Exclusive or all-inclusive ranges of split patterns fit into four selections, which make up the stone fashions, marble collection, designer products and the wood fireplaces. You have choices of opting for the most innovative slabs in styles. Fireplaces today make the ultimate statement. You have the choice of choosing retro patterns that borrow marks from heritages from long ago.

Now you can save money while achieving the top styles that bring elegantly fit patterns to any style home. The stone fireplaces constructed the most elegantly, enduring pieces of the finest architecture. Many of the patterns today give heritage to beautiful, striking styles that take you back to western heritage, including the elegant Georgian, Victorian, and more. Lintel brackets made of simple choices open walls to freestanding baskets of fire

that develop slow, placing emphasis on place. Elaborate chimneypieces incorporate mantels of wealthy Tudors recessed to fit a stone arch. Treated, the parts panel walls to accommodate Renaissances of European collections to match artisans that generate interests of fabulous folklores.

In the beginning: In the beginning humankind relied on simple carvings of woods to create designer shelves to install on their fireplaces or wood burning stoves. Today, man can rest his hands, since technology advancements has made it possible to create heritage, modern, contemporary, and other fashions to fit your needs, including your pocket. Pillars of stone arches, grander of fine entablatures can devise shelves perhaps elegantly enough to coat arms of frieze centerpieces. The recommended pieces make up the Edwardian revivalism and bring strength and dignity to any design. of stone, it was durable, stately and, of course, non-flammable.

Patterns today lend it to intricate carvings of bold or dynamic shapes, including the peaks of Elizabethan arches visually impressive and detailed to fit bacchanalia on a Regency charming piece of fine stones. Stone afford authenticity to Victorian and Edwardian revivalism and brings strength and dignity to any design. Fire-belly offers you efficiency in a new light.

Wood Burning Efficiency FIREBELLY Stoves and Fireplaces

Built to last, wood burning stoves and fireplaces today offer you hand carved styles that fit any home. Fire-belly is the latest efficient style that breathes the breath of fire into spaces across European channels. Teaming up, technology took the time to create the oldest styles when they created the Fire-belly. The time old patterns honor some of the most beautiful designs around. You have connoisseurs of fine products that give you the contemporary styles that chase the heritage of old folklores.

Designs today are built by the hands of UK people who bring you elegant European styles of sophisticated wood burning efficient stoves, which the knowledge has won subtle styles that continue to proportion over to the Firebelly. UK elegantly designed these units with warm, economic, and safeness in mind. Take advantage now, since heating prices is soaring.

Fire-belly lights up the night or day with its blue hues of brilliant light. The appliance sells you maximum output at Six Whooping KW. Fire-belly has a number of the highest developed features around. Advanced features take you across of control capabilities to provide easy regulations over burning rate of your stove, including cleaning easiness. Having something that takes less effort to clean is always nice, still you have to remember to take care of your stove or fireplace.

Fire-belly or FB1 Wood Burning stoves sit pleasantly in any room, providing you coziness in a new way. You have design over lavishing style.

Fire-belly is optional to the Log Store Stands. The stands can lead to increases of Fire-belly FB1 stoves at 300-mm by making the height come together at 900-mm. This leads to safety storage areas for the wood to bring warmth before loading it into the stove.

Fire-belly makes up the huge glass windows. The windows expend to ambience beyond offering you a good view to the burning flames. The uniqueness and uninterrupted feature make up the air shields, system, which helps to keep the glass panel clean. You still have to clean the windows.

Fire-belly has a door handle that stays cool. Air convections channel, dividing into even portions to heat the room, burning wood efficiency. The heat will reflect on firebricks that line on each side of Fire-belly. From top to bottom, your room will feel the warmth of the grander fire-belly unit. Carefully designed the fire bed stays at the up optimum temperature.

Fire-belly is the choice for many since its rear, or top flue outlets give 5inches or 125-mm of pipe to release smoke or creosote from the home. Multi-fuel kits provide you options in burning wood or solid mineral fuel. You have a range of the finest colors open.

Fire-belly Wood Burning Efficiency stoves created outstanding options in colors. You can select colors to match spray paint. You can match to fit the flue pipes.

The Fire-belly Wood Burning Efficiency stoves give you a choice of silver, charcoal, navy blue metallic, forest green, gold, green illusion, honey gold brown, matt black, Mojave, mauve, metallic brown, moss green, rich metallic brown, shimmering rose, sky blue, sunset, surf sand, almond, metallic black, etc. At what time you are choosing colors think of the design in your home, including your furniture, flooring, walls and more to achieve the best fit.

The Fire-belly Britain compact to give you a clean look offers you high efficiency over the latest contemporary stoves sold today. FB1 or Fire-belly offers you the finest features in burning wood to the cleanliest ability over air wash. Fuel kits can enhance your cost efficiency options.

Wood Burning Efficiency Stoves and Fireplaces

There is a new brand of built by hand wood burning stoves, the new brand Wood Burning Efficiency is called the Firebelly. The Firebelly can breathe fire into a space of living space across the UK. The teaming of the oldest technology is the Firebelly stoves together. This times the honored and the

prettiest design to the offer and the connoisseurs of everything. They would need to have a contemporary and a wood burner.

The designed and the built by hand in the UK, has sophistical Wood Burning Efficiency stoves has won over the knowledge their subtle styling and continuing the proportions. The Firebelly light has a bright blue tint to the paper with its Wood Burning Efficiency. This appliance is selling appliance offers and the maximum of the output of the 6KW. The number of the highly developed features throughout can give you a good Wood Burning Efficiency. The advance can control allow an easy regulation of the burning rate to be the stove burning and efficiently and cleanly. If the FB1 Wood Burning Efficiency sits nicely and it is cozy in with the person who owns Wood Burning Efficiency and the interior you can pick.

The Firebelly you can if you want it or if you dont it is optional the Log Store Stand, which can lead to raising the Firebelly FB1 stove of the 300mm by making the height all together 900mm and that leads to a safe storage area for the wood to be warm before you load it into the stove.

The stoves include a huge glass window and that expands to an ambience that offers a good point of view of the burning flames. Also, the unique and uninterrupted the air shield system that helps keep the glass panel clean but it can still get a little dirty. Then, the door handle stays cool. Then the air convection channels divide the heat evenly into the room that the Wood Burning Efficiency is in. The heat reflects the firebricks line to every side. The top to the bottom of the room and or rooms will stay warm. That keeps the fire bed at and optimum temperature.

If the choice of the rear or the top of the flue outlet if 5 (125mm) for the flue pipe. The Wood Burning Efficiency has a Multifuel kit that is available to buy for the wood and or solid mineral fuels. The wide range of color finishes.

When and if you are ordering the Firebelly Wood Burning Efficiency stove in an outstandingly good color options that you can get. You can select the color the matched the spray paint which can be used on our stoves and the flue pipe to create a perfect match your stove.

The Firebelly Wood Burning Efficiency stoves can be in colors like silver, charcoal, navy blue metallic, forest green, gold, green illusion, honey gold brown, matt black, mauve, metallic brown, moss green, rich metallic brown, shimmering rose, sky blue, sunset, surf sand, almond, metallic black, and Mojave.

The Firebelly is very clean looking and that is made in Britain. It is as highly Wood Burning Efficiency contemporary stove the FB1 has the features would expect the clean burning and the air wash. That is well known that can also came with multi fuel kit and making it one of the few. The FireBelly brings a unique style to modern flairs, so be sure to check out the latest inventions by the European natives who worked hard with kind hands to deliver you top quality, cost efficient wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

WOOD BURNING STOVES AND FIRE PLACES How to buy wood burning stoves and fireplaces The cold winters evokes the images of bonfires and spade of lovely evenings sitting in front of a crackling fire. You can enjoy the winters by sitting beside a good fireplace. In the past, the wood burning stoves and fireplaces were not in commonly used. They were most often enjoyed by upper class citizens of society. With the passage of time, the wood burning stoves and fireplaces have emerged as a popular alternative source of heating homes. In many countries of the world where winters are cold, such features are a common feature in almost all homes. Since wood burning stoves are out there in the market, the selection of

appropriate stove has gained even greater importance. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind to buy cleanest and labeled stoves and fireplace inserts. It is recommended by the experts that the wood stoves that meet tight emissions standards are Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified, hence safe to buy them after checking appropriate labels on the back of the products. When you plan to get a wood burning stove or a fireplace, you need to be very careful in making this decision. Wood burning stoves happen to be the most efficient, if burned at a moderate rate. This quality makes it a necessity for you that before making purchase make sure that you buy the right size stove for the area to be heated. Putting it simply, the size of the wood stove you purchase will be determined by the size of the area to be heated. If you buy a stove that is too small for the area, it will not heat the area adequately. In addition, if you buy a stove larger than the area required for heating will not turn your place into an oven but also cause safety and air pollution problems. Therefore, the fire of the stove should be adequate to please the eye as well as heat the room, or rooms if applicable. You want enough coverage for the entire room also. When making your purchase, get satisfaction that the replaceable parts, service manuals and warranties of the model you buy are available. There are many models available in the market now. The market for wood burning stoves and fireplaces is growing. There are many models now available each of which claims to have an altogether different set of features to offer. Now it depends on what you actually want. You can evaluate fireplaces and wood burning stoves online to choose between styles. The advantage of shopping online allows you to view images and photos so that you learn the styles before purchasing. The process of buying does not end up here. Rather to choose from many types of wood stoves and hundreds of models, it can be frustrating. In order to simplify the process you can always rely upon a knowledgeable and dependable wood stove dealer. Again, this should be born in mind that the

dealer must carry lines from several different manufacturers, so that you can compare the features of the stove and fireplace inserts. The competent and reliable dealer will help you choose the right size stove and than place it in the optimum location in your house. Thus, he will enhance your overall experience of enjoying the warmth from a fireplace for you. Keeping all these small tips in mind you can make best choices to give your home an air of warmth and coziness in hazy evenings of winters. Save money now on heating, since the cost is rising each day. Choosing the right wood burning stove or fireplace is important to adhere to safety.

Choosing the Right Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Woodstoves and fireplaces will provide you with many hours of enjoyment. The added warmth and comfort and providing more efficiency and safety will be more economical in the long run.

Choosing and making the right decisions when purchasing your new woodstove or fireplace inserts is very important. Consider safety and the home environment while you are looking for the right wood burner to have installed into your home. Woodstoves come in different sizes to provide you with the most efficiency and comfort from one room to a full size house.

Todays woodburners have improved in proving more safety and efficiency that the old pot bellied stoves from the past. You will find that there are many different woodburners now to choose from even pallet stoves and there are decorative gas logs that you can use in the fireplace. The stoves today produce hardly any smoke and will use less wood by burning the wood up more leaving very few ashes.

When purchasing a woodstove or insert be sure that both the ULC and EPA certify it. There should always be to certification labels one is the ULC (Underwriters Laboratories of Canada) and the other test label is by the EPA making sure it is meeting the low-emission (smoke) standards. With these two labels, you can be sure that the stove has been tested, and meets all rules and regulations to put your family in a safer environment.

There are standard regulations on the low-emission of smoke that can be produced when burning wood. The standard limit for producing smoke emissions is 7.5 grams per hour with some producing as low as 1-4 grams. If there is a slight difference of one or 2 grams per hour on a day-to-day usage it is ok, it is not enough to worry about.

There are two ways to meeting the EPA smoke emission limits. The noncatalytic and the catalytic approach both of these are effective but the heat performance varies. The non-catalytic throws out a beautiful flame and heat but the catalytic will give a better heat performance but with more technology being used.

Choosing the non-catalytic stove it has three different characteristics for its good environment performance. You will find that the firebox is more insulated, the larger baffles will produce longer and hotter gas flow and the pre-heated combustion air runs through small holes above the fuel in the firebox.

People choose this non-catalytic stove for the beautiful fire it will created for their enjoyment. The baffles and some of the other parts need to be replaces more often due to the high heat deterioration. The catalytic stove involves more technology for the user but produces a longer even heat output. The smoke exhaust passes through a coated ceramic honeycomb that is located on the inside of the insert. The smoke gases and particles ignite and burn inside the honeycomb.

A lever operated bypass damper is on the catalytic stove to be opened when starting a fire or reloading it. Because of the heat, the honeycomb will need to be replaced from time to time. The durability of wear depends on the owner with proper maintenance and cleaning this stove insert will usually last for about 6 years. If this stove is not properly maintained it will probably need repairs approximately every 2 years to keep in good working condition, you need to be sure it isnt over fired, no garbage is being burned and cleaning maintenance is performed as instructed by the manufacture.

EPA rules and regulations say no burning garbage in your burner. You can find more information on the rules and regulations from the EPA on the Internet by going into the EPA Library and use the keyword, woodstoves and fireplaces.

Always be sure to check for safety labels and follow all rules to give your home the most benefits of burning wood safely. Learn more about the performance of wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces in Performance How to improve your stoves performance You can take measures to provide you with a very nice experience while using wood burning stoves or fireplaces. The steps can increase efficiency of your stove and can make it possible for you to live in a warm environment. You will need to take precaution to improve your stove or fireplaces performance. Finding solutions to problems will suit you and your home better when the performance of your appliances is working correctly. If the fireplace or wood burning stove is not working properly, it can be dangerous. You should give all due importance to this issue. Existing fireplaces could be improved by using various measures. You can keep the chimney clean, which will provide you with the best performance. Most designs today are capable of retaining heat produced by fire. Tube grates is one of the better products and offers you a less expensive method of keeping heat in the room longer. Air or water can help transfer, making performance better also, especially with the grates.

The performance of a wood burning stove or fireplace is very much dependant on the type and nature of fuel being used in it. Burning wood is cheap, yet the chimney will need to be swept often to keep your unit burning properly. The overall performance and efficiency of your fireplace or stove is greatly increased by adding accessories, such as the tube grates. Adding fans to the structure will raise the cost, yet the performance will greatly improve.

Heat output is greater. Your fireplace or stove generally incorporates structure of the home. People often find it difficult as a whole to measure improved efficiency. While the notion can prove to be costly, the quality is more of a concern. Spending a few dollars now can affect the performance of your stove or fireplace. Options are available. You can use metallic inserts in your fireplace to create a higher performing device. The cost rises, yet you have performance at its higher peak. The fuel used to burn the stove should be dry and clean. Cardboard, loose papers or soft wood will increase smoke in the home. Smoke in the home will increase your risks. It is never safe to inhale too much smoke at a single time. Stay smart and choose your type of wood or materials to burn in your stove. You want to think about the effects on products also to achieve satisfaction in wood burning stoves and fireplace performance. There are many options. If you want to upgrade your wood burning stove or fireplace, you can do this today. Wood stoves or fireplaces today may be used, yet the place of installation plays a big part in performance. A fire furnace could be used also, yet the placement is important too. When making decisions in fireplaces and/or wood burning stoves think logically

about the type of stove you want to use. The size and type could only be determined by what you expect of it. You can check your options online, viewing the various aspects of wood burning stoves and fireplaces. The advanced types of burners today are created in a way that it does not require larger consumptions of woods to produce desired amount of heat. The advanced designer burners are not only efficient; the units reduction in wood used to make fire can save you tons of money on heating costs. As a result, you can opt to use your savings to invest in buying wood burning stores or fireplace accessories to save you additional money. The over all systems could be improved to achieve top efficiency. Fighting pollution is part of adhering to safety.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Fighting Pollution With suitable learning of wood burning, production of smoke can be abridged largely, which would be a contribution in fighting pollution. Proper cleaning of these appliances can assist in eliminating painstaking risks of chimney fires and could add to your appliance performance. Keeping the environment safe and clean is all our responsibilities. By taking care of some small details, innovative technology appliances combined with accessories cannot only be used competently and safely but the maintenance costs could also be significantly reduced.

Online you can find helpful tips with cleaning your wood burning stove or fireplace. Some of the sites offer you helpful suggestions in maintenance, cleaning, safety and more. Take advantage of the information so that you can keep your home safe whilst enjoying a top performing product. Wood burning stoves and fireplaces are smart choices in heating homes today. The gas bills are constantly rising to a point the poor people suffer without heat too often. The greediness of high rising heating has put us on the spot. This is why wood burning stoves and fireplaces are smart. Taking care of wood burning stoves and fireplaces only requires using common sense. It is never smart to place items near your fireplace and wood burning stove that will catch fire. Keep paper, cloth, or other flammable items away from the furnace. When using your furnace often you should always swept the chimney often to avoid soot buildup, creosote entrapment and so on. Hire an expect to clean your chimney at least once each year. Creosote if built up in your home can cause serious health conditions, and even death. This combustible fume should escape through your chimney rather than in your home. Creosote is wood preservatives that produce thick, yellowish oils to brown substances that derive from coal tar. This thick oil is used as an antiseptic and is colorless. The oils produce chimney tar, dark icky brown to black tar that deposits into the chimney flue when woods, or pine is burnt. This flammable tar substance creates fire hazards. You want to keep creosote out of your home by cleaning your chimney as recommended by experts. Hire someone who knows how to clean your chimney properly at least once a year. If you can afford to, it couldnt hurt to sweep the chimney twice a year to increase your safety.

If you do not have a wood burning stove or fireplace in your home, yet intend to purchase a unit in the future. Take time to learn about safety, EPA requirements, and the various units offered to you. Some of the fireplaces and wood burning stoves today do not require the use of a chimney. You can find logs that burn from fuels, propane, or natural lights. Some of the fireplaces are safe. You can install them in your home, burn real-like logs and not need a chimney to protect your home from fires, or creosote. The stoves and fireplaces today are affordable. You can find top quality burners on the Internet that will give you the most for your money. When choosing fireplaces or wood burning stoves think efficiency, since the point is to keep your home warm, safe and efficient. The nicety of todays fireplaces and wood burning stoves, or at least some is that you do not have the soot to worry about, creosote build up, chimneys to clean, or paying high costs to heat your home. You have many options today that you did not have at one time. Check out the latest European fireplaces and wood burning stoves online.

Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Variety IX - How many types of fireplaces are there?

What is a fireplace? In addition, what does it mean to you to sit beside one to enjoy a winter evening? It is an item of architecture. It contains a fire in it, which is used to warm your house. Many houses and businesses are warmed and made cozy by use of these fireplaces. The latest trend is to get a fireplace built in your new home but this fireplace will ignite by electric fires and wood burning may or may not be done in them. Many homes and garden shows feature the fireplaces in which wood is not burnt any more. These are safer. Electric fires are equally good to look at and are safer, but they do not provide that romantic atmosphere which typically is associated with wood burning stoves and fireplaces. However, electric fireplaces are better in one way; they do not produce much smoke. Homes can be beautified by having a marble fireplace in them. These can very easily be kept clean. One more advantage of marble wood burning stoves and fireplaces is that they can be used to burn wood or electric fire can be made in them. Even gas fires can also be made in these. There are a number of marble designs available so you can choose from a whole lot. These fireplaces are easy to install at any place in your home. Wood fires are the type to which regular cleaning is very important. The chimneys should be cleaned of soot at least once a year. This will reduce the general cost of maintenance for the fireplace, as the emissions will find their way out. If the wood fire stoves and their chimneys are not swept at the right time, they can catch fire. Chimney fires are not a very common incident. However, it can happen due to the presence of soot. Keep the chimneys clean, your wood fireplace will work much better. Fireplaces are made today keeping in mind the fact that different people have different sets of requirements. Some people need their fireplaces to heat huge halls while others have their homes made on very small area. If

the wall space is less, the cast iron fireplace can be your choice. The cast iron fireplace needs a little space. If there is a little space available, such a fireplace can be installed by using a cement slab. The cement slab has to be of the size of the fireplace. A fireproof stall should be there at the back of it. A vent will be needed to send the emissions out through the chimney. When the space available is small, cast iron fireplaces can be the best choice. Another common type of fireplaces is what we call as stone fireplace. The fireplace will have a size according to the size of your firebox. The firebox is actually the inside where the fire actually burns in a stove. Your stone fireplace may or may not have a door. For less than $600 you can purchase the Tuscan, which the latest indoor and outdoor fireplace. This burns wood, and stands around 36-inches and has an effortless brick white effect. The fireplace requires use of chimney pipes and a few accessories to burn to the top performance level. Tuscan is the stainless brushed steel series that has the Renaissance signature. You have various features that include textured real-like liners of brick on screenhidden pockets. The access to EZ damper is nice and the gas logs are ready to burn. The vent is 8-inches and each model has a clean, brush of stainless facing combined with mesh stainless screen at complete length over nail flanges of drywall at stopping points. Selecting fireplaces is easy when you know what you want.

Selecting Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces How to choose fireplaces A fireplace is something to keep your home warm. Fireplaces give you a place to sit down and enjoy the warmth of blazing fires on cold winter days. The architectural designs contain fire, which you can use to warm your home. All around the world, homes today and businesses too warm up to cozy fires while sitting near a fireplace. The latest trends allow you to customize fireplaces, building them to fit in your home. Fireplaces ignite electrical flames or burn wood to keep your home feeling cozy and warm. Many homes today often have furnaces that burn gas to heat the home. The cost of furnaces is costly to use. Some of the fireplaces today save you money, and are safer to use. The electric fireplaces give you equal ranges of design and safety. The units however do not supply to you the romantic atmosphere than many of us enjoy. Typically, the electric fireplaces associate with wood burning stoves. The electric units are better in many ways, since it does not produce the level of smoke that some of the older fireplaces do. Home value increases when installing fireplaces. Your home could be beautifully arranged with marbles of fine materials. The electric fireplaces are easier to keep clean. You have other advantages. The marble wood burning stoves or fireplaces can be used to burn wood, or you can use electricity to burn your fire.

Gas fires are optional also, which some electric fireplaces give you this option. Online you will find a selection of marble designs. The fireplaces are easy to install in any area of your home. Wood burning fires offer you cost efficiency yet you need to clean the units often. The chimneys should be cleaned, cleared of soot at least once a year. Cleaning the chimney will reduce the cost of maintenance for the fireplace. Emissions will find their way out of the chimney instead of your home. Wood fire stoves often require chimneys to use, which if the chimney flue is not cleaned properly it could catch fire. Chimney fires are common, so take time to learn about safety requirements to keep your home safe. Too much soot build up can lead to fires. Keep the chimney clean to keep the environment clear of soot also. Fireplaces today offer you different sets of standards. You can use fireplaces to heat your hallway, living room, bedroom, den, and more. Some people need their fireplaces to heat huge halls while others have their homes made on very small area. If the wall space is less, the cast iron fireplace can be your choice. The cast iron fireplace needs a little space. Fireplaces can be installed by using cement slabs.

The cement slabs should fit the fireplaces structure. Fireproof stalls should be installed at the back of your fireplace. You will need a vent to transfer emissions from the home and out of the chimney. In small areas, cast iron fireplaces are the better option. You also have a choice of stone fireplaces. These fireplaces size accordingly to fit a firebox. The firebox fits inside. This is where the fire burns in the stove. Stone fireplaces come either with doors or without doors. Even if you

choose the fireplace without doors, you can install them later. Installing doors is idea to keep smoke and soot in its place. You have choice of stainless steel fireplaces also. Tuscan created the latest series, which you can install inside your home, or outdoors. The fireplace burns wood. Created of the finest white bricks, the stainless steel stoves use chimney pipes to burn at the top performance. The stopping points with this series have a flange-nailed range of drywall over lengths of stainless screens of mesh. Buying quality is important. Buying Quality Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces How to buy woodstoves or fireplaces online Life is moving very fast. It has become even more difficult today than ever to keep pace with life. The necessities of life and increasing demands of improving life standards is sparing individuals no time to wink even. To meet the needs of daily life e-commerce is playing an effective role. The recent decades have witnessed a change from an environment and culture of simplicity to the modern era in this age of internet and web browsing t is a common experience for all of us to buy the products online. The online stores have details of all the available models and can give you a price comparison. E-commerce is an electronic path to make buying and selling easy for you. Let us talk only in the context of buying wood burner stoves and fireplaces. If you want to buy a burner stove online, you will find a related website offering you essential information and advice you need to know when buying new fire stoves or fireplaces. These online companies or dealer agencies sell all types of wood burning stoves, fireplaces and accessories and for all pockets. Budget may be a constraint for you but these online

stores help you locate those items, which are good in quality but are not that pricey. After reading the details of the stove or fireplace of your choice, a button read select below or next to the product. It will add the product to your shopping cart, if you desire to buy some other accessories too; you will repeat the procedure and keep on adding things to your cart. Once your shopping is finished. You can review your purchased items from the cart. The complete list is there. You can finalize your shopping by adding or deleting any item from that list. After finishing shopping, comes the process of payment of the product. Since you are shopping online, so you are required to pay online, online payments are best made through credit cards. This mode of payment uses a high level of security that encrypts your details.

If your information were valid, the transaction would be confirmed immediately. In addition, incase of invalid information transaction would be denied immediately. While making payment online you would be asked to follow the online instructions or print out the invoice and post it to the online shopping store/company/agency with details and have your order delivered to your door within a few days. Another way to pay is over the phone, fax etc. In that case, buyer is required to contact the dealers or company from where the product has been bought. In return, they will take buyers details over the phone, quoting his/her order number. Once this procedure is complete, your product would be delivered to you within few days. Many of these companies offer free delivery services and after sale maintenance services to their customers,

Though the online shopping is convenient and easy but make sure that you are making a deal with an authentic source. Dealing with fake sources or companies will risk you your money. Therefore, it is wise to choose authentic websites for buying products and do not fell prey to fraudulent. You can use the BBB (Better Business Bureau) website to find out if a company is selling legit products. You can also use reviews online to find out about companies. Using the reviews will help you to choose the best wood burning stove or fireplace also. Take your time to read details so that you learn more about the products. Check out the line of Renaissance heritages in wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

The Renaissance Heritages in Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces How to buy woodstoves or fireplaces online Life is filled with obstacles. We have high heating bills, outrageous phone bills, impossible rent and mortgage bills, and still we have other needs to complete our life. What can we do, but find ways to reduce costs of living? We have advantages today we did not have at one time. Today we can rely on e-commerce to present us with products online, giving us the option of

opening doors to thousands of online stores that compete against the other, selling fireplaces and wood burning stoves at bargain price. Decades ago, the environment begins changing its culture to a simpler, modern era of living, yet the costs continue to soar. We are now in the Internet era where web browsing takes us through experiences of finding some of the best deals abroad. At the stores online, you will find details per item sold. The details will help you to understand what the stoves or fireplaces offer you. You have a selection of models, which shopping online gives you the chance to compare pricing and models. E-commerce is an electronic path. The path takes you across models to galore with prices unmatchable. Buying and selling is easy. Wood burning stoves and fireplaces can save you money on heating bills. When shopping for wood burning stoves or fireplaces take time to find related websites that offer you good information to choose your product. Over the Internet, you will find dealers, sellers, wholesalers, stores and more that offer wood burning stoves or fireplaces. Some areas online fit the packages to fit your budget and home. Accessories are available, so if you have a wood burning stove or fireplace already you can buy vents, inserts, doors, mantels and more to add to your burner. If you find a wood burning stove or fireplace online to your likings and the price is too steep, shop around since you will find the same model at other stores for less. Some of the companies online will locate products for you to match your budget and likings. Online you have a wide selection of fireplaces to choose from, which includes the latest European styles with Renaissance signatures. The new

regeneration of fireplaces and wood burning stoves offer you accessories to match the signature. If you intend to buy online, be sure that you purchase from a secured site. Never give personal information, or financial information online to unsecured websites. The sites should have high level of security offered for payments and encryptions to protect your information. The traditional Georgian fireplaces are nice items. Be sure to check out the list of Classic designs, Norfolk, Ashtead, Dorchester, Barley, George, and more. You will find a nice line of Apolo models online also, which come with glass doors and is made of stainless steel. You will find the Pro-Com models, which is the electric units squared at the top. Wessex, Athenian, Burlington, Blenheim and the Northumberland models are choice fireplaces also.

The Blenheim is the signatures of Renaissances that takes you back to the day, yet you have a modern flare. At the top of the fireplace, you can add some of your knickknacks, or pictures. The glass door is elegantly fashioned to fit, yet it seems there is no door at all. The Wessex is the Bolection series. This is an elegantly created fireplace, yet it comes with a steep fee attached. This fireplace is ideal for large spaces. You may prefer the Burlington instead, which costs less. You can perhaps find these fireplaces at others pages online for less money. Another type of fireplace to consider is the Harman cast irons.

Harman Cast Iron Woodstove and Fireplace

When thinking about replacing your current heating system to wood there are many decisions you need to consider before making the final purchase.

Make sure that you have a large enough area to place a woodstove or fireplace for safety. When burning wood remember that it will get very hot and needs to be away for flammable items such as curtains and furniture. Doing some, research on the different sizes and styles will help you decide where to install your new source of heat. Research can be done on the Internet by searching for woodstoves and fireplaces.

There are many different styles to choose from to match the dcor of your home. Check out the Harman Oakwood Cast Iron Woodstove. This stove is very stylish and attractive along with saving you expenses at the same time. With the fire dome non-catalytic combustion system, it will help to provide you with a cleaner air environment by producing you clean even heat output. The heat will last a longer period with high efficiency.

The Harman Oakwood Cast Iron stove can be loaded from the top making it easier and will hold wood with its three-inch charcoal bed. You can load up to 40 pounds of wood at a time giving you 12-16 hours of continuous even heat.

Enjoyment and relaxation is easy with the Harman Oakwood Cast Iron stove by watching the fire through a glass front door. The door is special coated and has the special Harman air wash system to keeping it crystal clean for viewing.

When removing the ashes just open the door to the ash pan and pull it out. Dump the hot ashes into a metal bucket and replace the pan. Place the bucket outside on a cement or brick slab to prevent them from catching something on fire. Be sure the bucket has a cover and that your slab is away from anything that could be set a fire from the heat.

Some people like to grill all year long. Grilling accessories can be purchased extra to give the outdoor taste to any delicious meal. Just place the grill on top of the stove and stand back to hear the sizzling and the crackling from the wood.

Harman brand stoves come in many different styles offering you the benefits of saving energy. While on the Internet doing your research check out their website and see the many different products they have to offer you.

When purchasing your new wood stove be sure to look for the labels to ensure you safety from smoke and fire. All stoves should be labeled letting you know that it has been inspected and meets all the rules and regulations that are required by law. Reading the instruction booklet that will come with your new stove is very important. Follow the manufactured instructions and warnings to keep your family in a safe and clean environment.

Wood stoves will smoke if not installed properly so make sure that you have a professional installer put in the vents and accessories according to the rules and regulations. Wood will smoke if the stove is not installed properly and smoke has chemicals in it that can be harmful to your loved ones inside the home and outdoors as well.

The chimney is important that it is in proper working condition as well. When putting up the proper chimney it too needs to be inspected before using. You should only see a wisp of steam coming out of the chimney if you see more than put the fire out immediately. More than a wisp of steam or the smell of smoke, is a warning that something is not right and needs to taken care of before using any longer?

Enjoy your new heat and stay safe by having yearly inspection maintenance done at least once each season. Enhancements can save you money.

Enhancements in WOOD BURNING STOVES AND FIRE PLACES How their efficiency can be enhanced We all tend to want so many things from life. The list of human wants is a never-ending list. Every one wishes to have a nice cozy home. To make your home cozy, wood burning stoves and fireplaces are the feature, which can help you get the satisfaction of having the best. However, to get maximum performance out of them, the wood burning stoves and fireplaces should be made to work more efficiently. Although wood burning stoves are a very nice option to make your home look cozy and inviting, but you need to be very careful regarding few matters to make your fireplace last longer. You must also be concerned about the safety aspect. If you want to use it more efficiently, you need to be careful about certain things. The wood, which is to be burned, should be properly air-dried. Such a wood log will heat your place in a much better way. Hard woods burn better. They produce lots of heat when burned. They are a better choice if you want to improve the efficiency of your wood burning stove. The wood, which has dried for few months, is capable of heating your place better. Thus, the cost is reduced and you experience a more efficient wood burner. If the wood is wet, it will produce lots of smoke, which is not healthy to be inhaled in large quantities. Although soft wood is not that good a source when it comes to wood burning stove heating, it can be used on warm days.

The wood burning stove should be placed appropriately in the room. The safety issue should be kept in mind. Along with making it safe, the place can make it more efficient if the stove is placed properly. The passages to come and go and the path used by small kids should be avoided. It is better if the wood burning stove is placed near windows. It helps in ventilation thus keeping it healthy. In addition, the fresh air helps to built and keeps the fire going. Wood burning stoves are not typical fireplaces so generally clearance is not required in their case. Fireplace efficiency can be improved in a number of ways. The damper, if kept close while the fireplace is not in use, will not allow the hot air to rise and escape. Similarly, if the metal doors and heat shields are kept in place, the warmth is retained for much longer, but they should be kept open when the fireplace is working. Some of the designs are more efficient. They circulate the air in the room and make it warm. Fireplace inserts are easy to install and they improve the over all efficiency. The wood stove burners should be kept clean and tidy. The efficiency can be improved by installing a wood stove in front of your fireplace. The wood stove should be checked for local air pollution. That will make it more efficient. If you intend to install or already have installed wood, burning stoves or fireplaces visit the Internet to learn additional information to help you get the most in efficiency. You can find cleaning tips, safety hints and more for your convenience. The most important thing is to remember that environmental safety is essential, since when you pollute the environment you put harm in your way, your familys way, and other people in societies way. Keep the environment

clean by adhering to maintenance codes, safety and so on. Check out the important hints and tips also to find ways to save money.

Safer WOOD BURNING STOVES AND FIRE PLACES How to make it safer A cozy and nice home is a dream of many 0f us. People generally want their homes to look inviting yet elegant. Wood burning stoves and fireplaces if added to the dcor properly can compliment it. It always makes it look nicer. However, one thing you must be careful about is that the fireplace should be safe enough for you and your family. Especially if you have young children in your family, you have to be more careful about it. There can be an accident if the kids are there. Wood smoke may also be hazardous. People should pay due attention to such factors. Environmental pollution must be everybodys concern. After all, this environment belongs to all of us. How smoke emissions harm your health: The smoke and other emissions from a burning fire may be harmful for health. The type of wood burned determines the amount and type of these emissions. If the wood logs, which are burned in the fireplace, are properly dried, there will be less smoke. More greener or wood, which is not dry, yet will produce lots of smoke. It is not healthy to inhale a lot of smoke. The

emissions should be reduced to enjoy the fire without any harmful effects for health. Those stoves which use natural gas or liquid propane emits less thus are more health friendly. To make it even safer for yourself, you should be more careful about the age of your wood burning stove. Do not use very old models. If you have one, discard it and buy a new one. It may cost you a few bucks but it will be better because safety must be your priority. Building a safer fire: To build a safe fire you must burn longer logs. Keep the fire well stocked so that it burns properly and does not emit smoke. Make it healthy for yourself by following certain rules while using a wood burning stove. Longer logs will help you reduce the number of times you have to reload the stove. This will decrease the amount of emissions released. Another small tip, which can help you reduce the harmful effects of emissions, is by making hot fires. Hot fires are capable of eating up all the carbon monoxide and other harmful emissions produced in the course of time while a fire is burning. Wood fires are at their best when they are burned hot. Another feature, which can help you reduce the emissions, is a carbon monoxide alarm. This alarm will automatically tell you if the level of carbon monoxide increases. One more thing, which can help you keep yourself safe from the damaging effects of using wood burning stoves and fireplaces, is to keep your chimneys clean. The chimneys should be swept very regularly. In this way, the tar or any other deposit will not accumulate and thus emissions will always find their way out from your house very quickly. Creosote is hazardous, so keep the soot down to avoid having oily fumes emit through

your home. Learn ways to keep soot out of your fireplace and/or wood burning stove. Only solid wood should be burnt in the stoves and fireplaces. Such wood will not produce smoke and the atmosphere will remain cleaner. The wood should always be dry when going into your fireplace. You can only enjoy having a cozy atmosphere at your place if you use the fireplace and the stove in a safe manner. EPA tips and hints offer you solutions in adhering to safety. Check out the details online. Feel the warmth!

Feeling the Warmth of Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces How they add to pleasures of life The look has come out to be the trademark of present century. Life styles are all about looks be it you, your work or your home. Like many other accessories that make your home a comfort, the look, smell and feel of wood burning fireplace is no less than an elegance. The aura created by the warmth of burning woods and their smell cannot be an excellence of gas and electric stoves. The beauty of the fireplace and the cozy atmosphere it creates ads to the over all look of the place as well as it enhances the overall experience of having a fireplace at your home.

In winters, fireplaces become the central place of your home. Where winters make days shorter and nights cooler, the tendency to spend more time in the comfort of house is increased. The idea of spending time at home gives rise to the thought to have ones own fireplace. That is why wood burning stoves and fireplaces have gained popularity over the years. They look nice and add elegance to the place you live in. They make the area around them livelier. The warmth makes your home more inviting and pleasant. . Now thanks to new designs and concepts in this industry that offer you much more than mere cozy atmosphere in the form of fireplaces. Sitting before a fireplace in home, you do not only feel warm and relaxed but it also soothes your soul. It is an ability, which no other home appliance can offer you. This is the specialty only fireplaces can offer you. An elegant and trendy fireplace upgrades and improves the look of your house. They gain central place in house and compel family members to sit around the crackling wood fire and have a little gossip and shed the tiredness of hectic day. Spending hours in front of a nice and cozy fireplace and then fall asleep besides it is one of the pleasures of life. There are different size, color and kind of fireplaces and stoves are available in the market. There vary in their designs from classic stone fireplaces to majestic large bricked to multi featured iron fireplaces. You can buy it according to your own taste and choice. As is the case with any other product, the fireplace must be nice to look at. If they are, they make you feel better. There is nothing better than the feeling of warm and coziness on cold days. Fireplaces give you many options, including the warmth you deserve. Your choice to fireplace must not stand out from the rest of the things in your house. Your choice if go hand in hand with the rest of the dcor of your room, it will make a real significant difference. The fireplace can add to the beauty of your home. You just need to get the right fireplace for yourself.

Fireplaces make nice romantic designs for sitting on cold nights while enjoying a glass of wine with your loved one. Throw a blanket in front of the fire and light up the night while enjoying the warmth on a cold, chilly evening. Once you get the fireplace you were dreaming about, you should make sure the safety and maintenance of the fireplace so that it may work well for a long time. Enjoy the winter and enjoy your fireplace, may it keep you warm and happy during the cold winter nights. To find fireplaces or wood burning stoves right for you check out the nice line of products online. The Classics today offer you some of the finest designs around.

The Classics in Fireplaces and Wood Burning Stoves

Some of the Classic designs include the flames of premium burning dcors of electrical units. The choice of fireplaces do not need vents, you merely plug the electric cord into the wall outlet and enjoy a blazing fire.

The fireplaces have mantels, which distinctive features give you top quality designs. Some of the highest quality features made of raw goods give you the advancements in fine finishing on your choice of woods. The mantels made of wood come from the finest veneers of wood and solid oaks. You can choose from a line of mantels once you choose your fireplace.

The flames of classics today offer you mantels designed to fin the Flames of Classical narratives. The premium lines of electrical inserts give you choices in size. Some of the top sizes sold include the three-inches, 23-inch and so on. The inserts feature some of the most real flames, while you burn electric you will think you are burning real logs on a fire. The logs glow. The embers in the bed will produce over 1300 units of wattage on your heater. Optional switches or remotes give you access to on or off modes.

The flames of classics chamfered the front facing to give you designs unmatchable to other styles. The inserts stand apart to give you a distinctive design. Romantic flames of passion will fill your eyes as you watch the roaring fire blaze. You have an option in styles, finish, size an so on.

How to choose mantels: When choosing mantels you want to consider the line of Empire Comforts, Pearl, or the Mount Vernon Mantels. The Mount Vernon is attractively designed to fit on any fireplace of choice. The pearls are the flatter mantels,

yet these too are attractively designed. Other mantels include the stone, marbles, and so on.

If you choose the Mount Vernon mantels take your time. The line of mantels include the finest of Essex shelves, Newbury, Monarch, Thacharn, Victory mantels and so on. The shelves available offer you a choice of finishing and size. Cabinets are available also. Mantels also include the Flush mounting mantels. This line of products include the Mount Vernon, Pearl, Monessen, Empire, CVH and the Classics Elements of Home. The designs today offer you choice of contemporary, modern and the Renaissance signatures of ancient societies.

How to choose cabinets: Once you have your stove or fireplace choose cabinets from the line of Napoleon, Monessen, Lennox Hearth, Empire or the line of Classic Elements of home styles. The Empire has an attractive appeal, yet some of the other models can enhance your home also.

When choosing gas logs be sure to check out accessories, vents and the ventfree logs. The vent free are nice and can save you money.

Fireboxes is something to consider also. You have a line of vent free fireboxes and fireplaces, organic vents, freestanding, electric, direct vents, wood burning vents and more. Freestanding include the gas and wood burners, while fireboxes make up the line of Napoleon, Monessen, Lennox Superiors, and the Empires.

Choosing pipes is best handled depending on the stove type. If you have a stove that requires the use of pipes visit the Internet to learn about the vent pipes designed for wood burning, Simpson Dura vents, Pro-Techs, pellets,

Napoleon and the line of Lennox Hearth. Empire offers a nice line of designs fit for any style.

You have so many options today when choosing wood burning stoves, fireplaces, mantels, pipes and more. Check out the Internet to get an idea of what you are dealing with, since you have hundreds of option The Classics in Fireplaces and Wood Burning Stoves

Some of the Classic designs include the flames of premium burning dcors of electrical units. The choice of fireplaces do not need vents, you merely plug the electric cord into the wall outlet and enjoy a blazing fire.

The fireplaces have mantels, which distinctive features give you top quality designs. Some of the highest quality features made of raw goods give you the advancements in fine finishing on your choice of woods. The mantels made of wood come from the finest veneers of wood and solid oaks. You can choose from a line of mantels once you choose your fireplace.

The flames of classics today offer you mantels designed to fin the Flames of Classical narratives. The premium lines of electrical inserts give you choices in size. Some of the top sizes sold include the three-inches, 23-inch and so on. The inserts feature some of the most real flames, while you burn electric you will think you are burning real logs on a fire. The logs glow. The embers in the bed will produce over 1300 units of wattage on your heater. Optional switches or remotes give you access to on or off modes.

The flames of classics chamfered the front facing to give you designs unmatchable to other styles. The inserts stand apart to give you a distinctive design. Romantic flames of passion will fill your eyes as you watch the roaring fire blaze. You have an option in styles, finish, size an so on.

How to choose mantels: When choosing mantels you want to consider the line of Empire Comforts, Pearl, or the Mount Vernon Mantels. The Mount Vernon is attractively designed to fit on any fireplace of choice. The pearls are the flatter mantels, yet these too are attractively designed. Other mantels include the stone, marbles, and so on.

If you choose the Mount Vernon mantels take your time. The line of mantels include the finest of Essex shelves, Newbury, Monarch, Thacharn, Victory mantels and so on. The shelves available offer you a choice of finishing and size. Cabinets are available also. Mantels also include the Flush mounting mantels. This line of products include the Mount Vernon, Pearl, Monessen, Empire, CVH and the Classics Elements of Home. The designs today offer you choice of contemporary, modern and the Renaissance signatures of ancient societies.

How to choose cabinets: Once you have your stove or fireplace choose cabinets from the line of Napoleon, Monessen, Lennox Hearth, Empire or the line of Classic Elements of home styles. The Empire has an attractive appeal, yet some of the other models can enhance your home also.

When choosing gas logs be sure to check out accessories, vents and the ventfree logs. The vent free are nice and can save you money.

Fireboxes is something to consider also. You have a line of vent free fireboxes and fireplaces, organic vents, freestanding, electric, direct vents, wood burning vents and more. Freestanding include the gas and wood burners, while fireboxes make up the line of Napoleon, Monessen, Lennox

Superiors, and the Empires.

Choosing pipes is best handled depending on the stove type. If you have a stove that requires the use of pipes visit the Internet to learn about the vent pipes designed for wood burning, Simpson Dura vents, Pro-Techs, pellets, Napoleon and the line of Lennox Hearth. Empire offers a nice line of designs fit for any style.

You have so many options today when choosing wood burning stoves, fireplaces, mantels, pipes and more. Check out the Internet to get an idea of what you are dealing with, since you have hundreds of options today.

Concepts in Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Wood burning stoves and fireplaces offer more today with some of the latest designs from European lands. Fireplaces today make it possible to keep your home warm without fretting over smoke, soot, creosote building up in your home. Some of the fireplaces sold today do not require use of a chimney or poker. Instead, the logs burn like real fires without producing soot. Fireplaces include the electrical units, which is the top picks. Some of the styles take you across a line of Empire and onto Napoleon. You can install portables in any small area and have sufficient space left over. The fireplaces designed today save you energy, since you use less gas heat to operate the fireplaces in your home. Wood burning stoves function in the same manner, or at least some do.

Some of the fireplaces sold today include the Metastone. This elegantly Renaissance of fine stones, marbles, etc provides you a choice of Kitchen Hoods to enhance your homes beautiful designs with elegancy in sophisticated European style designs. You have the Custom choice of mantels also, which include the larger mantels. The mantels start at $500 and up. You will find cheaper versions depending on where you shop.

The mantels offer you the latest line of Monaco in its majestically fashionable choice of versatile shelves and mantels combined. You can customize your mantels and shelves to fit your style. The ornate scrolls of floral are the choice for many since they enjoy the shells of keystones that give that basic smooth, level panel appeal. The legs you can adjust to heights of desired levels and the acanthus top leaf is adjustable as well as the panel that faces the top. The design has a unique dual pedestal of block styles that appeal too many. You have a choice of paints and organic stone finishing.

The mantels are thee fireplaces frame of ornamental styles that usually are made of wood or stone, yet you will find a line of marble mantels online also. Other styles are available to my knowledge.

Some of the fireplaces today use vents, while others are vent free. Some you can use direct vents. The vents allot small openings for air, i.e. allowing fresh air into the area so that you are free of stale air, gas fumes, smoke, or steam escaping into your home.

You can also find inserts online, which adds to your fireplace giving you a method to enhance your designs.

Other items are available online. If you have a fireplace or wood burning stove installed in your home without a door, perhaps you can check out the

line of glass doors, mesh or other type of doors online. The designs today allow you to find something to install on nearly any style of wood burning stove or fireplace. Having a door is nice, since it keeps smoke where it belongs, as well as soot.

The electric fireplaces are nice. You can find designs that have bookshelves and mantels already mounted. The bookshelves make nice areas for storing your favorite photos, or other related items.

Other style of fireplaces includes the brick-like units. The bricks are real in some instances, depending on what style you chose. The electric units are nice; they burn real-like logs. The electric bill will not raise much after using your fireplace throughout the month. You can save money on your heating bill by installing fireplaces into your home today.

To learn more about fireplaces visit the Internet to check out the latest European designs, which are fashioned to give you signatures of the fine Renaissances? Rumford made some nice designs also.

Fireplaces and Wood Burning Rumford Stoves

Some of the finest fireplaces sold today include the units created by Rumford. The wood burning stoves and fireplaces include mantel or shelves, depending on the style. Some of the fireplaces use masonry chimneys while

others do not. Some offer you chimney pots to use or you can find other architectural designs online.

One of the nicest things about choosing Rumford products is that you can customize your own designs. If you want a larger fireplace, Rumford dealers will either find you a unit to fit your needs, or have one specially designed to fit your needs.

If you are on the market for fireplaces, be sure to check out the variety of products sold today. Some of the latest styles include the European styles, which make up the line of Onyx, Jerusalem Stones, terrazzo, and marble, Caesar Stones, granite, slate and limestone.

You have many options available to you. You can find a nice line of marbles online at wholesale companies. The marbles come from India, China, Italy, Brazil, Rome, Turkey, and so on. Onyx is an extremely beautiful stone or marble.

If you prefer, electric stoves or fireplaces are available also. The electric units combine flares of ancient folklore into modern designs to give you charm. The fireplaces are convenient, and offer you feature of classic styles to fit any home. You will like the warmth produced in your cozy environment. Electric units are nice since you do not need to worry about cleaning your chimney, installing new pipes, cleaning soot, etc.

You will find a nice line of lightwood, medium woods, and dark finished woods, white, black, or oak woods online. In addition, you have choice of stainless steel. Some of the fireplaces today provide you extra provisions, since you get bookcase, corners, freestanding accessories, and more. Some fireplaces even allow you to install them in the wall, or mount them to the

wall.

You have a nice line of modern, traditional, transitional, rustic, or casual fireplaces to choose from online.

Some of the features offered include down lights, curio, remote control, dimmers, open shelves, programmable thermostat, hidden storage space, or entertainment centers. You have many options. The down lights, dimmers and remote control are nice. The electric units allow you to access volumes of burning from your remote control. How nice!

Some of the nice fireplaces sold today, include the lovely Flames of Classics. The electric unit with dark features that spark flames of fire in a unique way. The Dimplex is the encores of classical French oak woods. This is a nice fireplace also, yet the flames of classics, the black version is outstanding. The Dimplex creates the Maestro of Brockton Walnut woods, which is also outstanding. I think the black is more appealing to me, yet this one is stylish in its own unique way, since it combines dark wood in the background to create black facing. Lovely! The flames of classic Paramounts is another nice unit, which you have a Television stands with this elegantly designed unit. The line of Ovation Black Laguna contemporary styles is nice also. Encore drapes of Alabaster are nice if you like the pink effects. The white fireplaces include the Ovation Sussex. This is an elegant style. You also have a line of Maestro Kenton, Deluxe, stainless steels that mount on the wall, Amherst and so on. The Deluxe has a nice price tag, i.e. affordable. Another is the Classic Flames of Americana styles. This is a black fireplace and costs less than $300. The Contempra is a little nicer and costs a little more.

Choosing what wood burning stoves and fireplaces to purchase

What are some of the many types of wood-burning fireplaces and stoves available?

The wood-burning fireplace certainly holds a warm place in the hearts of many. It is a beautiful and traditional means of heating a room as well as increasing its aesthetic appeal, and it is because of this that working fireplaces add to the resale value of any home, making them a sound investment all around. However in recent years, a wide variety of alternatives to the traditional fireplace have come onto the market, offering the discerning buyer many options to choose from when choosing which sort of fireplace or stove to buy.

Just a few of the many models available are electric fireplaces, electric stove, airtight wood-burning stoves, pellet-burning stoves and stoves that will burn a variety of fuels, including natural gas, alcohol and even corn!

How do I decide between all of those wood-burning fireplaces and stoves?

The first factor you will want to take into consideration when deciding between a wood-burning fireplace and a woodstove is the cost of fuel. In many areas wood is one of the cheapest and most readily available fuels, so a wood-burning fireplace or an enclosed woodstove are more logical, economical choices to make than some of the other models available.

However, if you live in an area where wood is scarce and/or expensive, it may be more economical in the long run to purchase an electric or gasburning fireplace. If you are interested in buying a more environmentallyfriendly option, the fireplaces that burn natural gas, alcohol or corn are all excellent choices; a visit to your nearest fireplace vendor will give you a much clearer idea of what you will be looking at in terms of maintenance costs for each of these models.

What are some factors in purchasing a wood-burning stove and fireplace besides cost?

Costs aside, you will want to take a close look at the various characteristics of each one. A wood-burning fireplace has a lovely traditional feel to it, and is what most people think of when they think of a fireplace. Wood also has that special distinctive aroma that so many people enjoy, and a fireplace will give all family members and friends the full benefit of the snap and crackle of the flames and that lovely smell of wood smoke.

Of course, this is the very reason many people also choose to not purchase a fireplace but prefer to buy a wood-burning stove instead. Many people nowadays have problems with allergies but still want the aesthetic beauty of a wood-burning fireplace, so they will choose an electric or gas-burning fireplace. These will generate heat and come in a wide range of models, and are often an economical choice. Similarly, the pellet-burning stoves and those that burn alternative fuels such as alcohol and corn can be both environmentally- and allergy-friendly choices for families that wish to consider one or both factors. Look around to find the best deals.

If, however, you live in an area where wood is the only economical choice for fuel, you might want to consider purchasing an airtight woodstove. These

stoves burn wood like a traditional fireplace, but are sealed in such a way as to minimize all allergic effects. While some people feel that woodstoves lack some of the aesthetic appeal of fireplaces, most of them do have doors made of tempered glass that still allow people to see the flames without having to breathe in the smoke, making them a safe and economical choice for many families to enjoy.

Choosing Wood Burning Fireplaces and Stoves

What factors should influence my choice of wood-burning fireplace?

The first you will need to do before choosing a fireplace is make yourself aware of the wide variety of types of fireplaces that are available. Some fireplaces will burn materials besides wood, such as corn, gas, alcohol and various other types of fuels. These would be worth looking into if wood is not cheaply and readily available in your area, but for this article we will assume you have decided you want a traditional, wood-burning fireplace and are looking at the many different types and styles of fireplace available. We will assume that you will already have ascertained that you can buy wood readily in your area, and now want to choose between the wide varieties of models that fireplace suppliers have to offer. Now that it is a matter of taste

in design, you can focus on browsing catalogues and seeing what styles will suit the dimensions and dcor of the room where it will be installed.

Your fireplace and possible legal concerns

It may seem like common sense, but you would be surprised how many people do not think to see if their fireplace meets their local zoning and building laws. You will definitely need to familiarize yourself with the building codes of your locality, as most municipalities have zoning codes that must be satisfied before you can have the fireplace installed. If you have not already done so, be sure to consult a reputable contractor regarding the legality of your building permits for your fireplace installation, or at the very least research your areas codes and laws concerning fireplaces. This is especially critical because certain areas place restrictions on the type of fireplace that may be installed. Once you are certain you will not encounter legal difficulties with your choice of fireplace, you are ready to go out and start browsing the many types of fireplace available to pick the one that best suits your familys requirements.

Where do I go to find my wood-burning fireplace?

There are several different ways to choose a wood-burning fireplace that is right for your family. Many supply stores will offer a showroom of several different fireplace models and will have knowledgeable sales staff on hand to assist you in your decision. The sales staff should know the basics of every unit, such as price, dimensions, availability, or at least be able to look these up on request. These showrooms are good places to take the whole family; make a day of it, if possible, and see as many different models as you can. Some people already have a good idea in mind of what sort of wood-burning fireplace they are looking for, but that is no reason not to do a

lot of window-shopping anyway. These types of showrooms can be invaluable because so many different models of fireplace are on display, so they give the customer an even clearer idea of what types of fireplaces are available in a variety of styles and price ranges. European styles are available also, which you can find good deals on these stylish units too.

Ultimately, your choice of wood-burning fireplace should be a balance between appearance and budget. Once you have researched your local zoning laws, examined the wide variety of options open to you and sketched out a rough budget of how much you are willing to spend, you are ready to go out and find the perfect fireplace that will warm your familys home for many years to come. Look around, since you can find good deals online in choosing fireplaces and wood burning stoves. Check out the line of fireboxes.

Fireboxes in Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

The fireboxes offered do not include logs. The box is vent free and fits into any venting free box. The fireboxes give you a wide array of choices, which you can also customize your fireplace to fit your home design.

The fireboxes come in 32-inches up to 50-inches and you can find the multiside or the see through fireboxes. One of the top brands is the 36-inch, which heat circulates through the see through Louvered vent free unit. You get a liner made of concrete, flooring, black hoods, wired mesh screens. The outlet is duplex with a Vanguard fashion.

The cottage clays are the firebrick fireplaces offered by various stores online. Monessen creations set the mark for these units.

Online you will find a list of vent free, free vent logs, B-vents, direct, and other styles to fit our style. The vent free include the line of see through, island, Peninsula, right and left-side openings. You can find small to large units available online.

Islands offer you up to 40-inches of open sides that stretch to four ranges. You have a vent free unit that produces fire from natural gases. Remote is ready. Some of these units are created Napoleon style. The fireplaces do not include Louvers.

The fireboxes include the Renaissance of Universal styles. The designs fit any style home, yet would look good in a Victorian setting. Older homes could benefit from this fireplace as well.

When shopping for fireboxes also check out lighting fixtures. You can purchase accessories to design your fireplace. Electric stoves, wood burning fireplaces, inserts, fireboxes and wood burning stoves designed today give you many options in choosing designs to fit your style, or adding accessories to create your own style.

The accessories offered include Andirons, cookware, blower grate, cookware, glass doors, masonry, hearth fender, hearth guard, installation kits, log holders, log lighters and more.

Remote controls include the on and off remotes, receiver cover, thermostatic, variable flames height, wall switch, etc. You have a selection of screens and tool sets for your new fireplaces. Vent pipes include the Bvents, direct, relining, stoves and the wood burning pipes.

How to choose your style of fireplaces: Fireplaces include the masonry made of mortar and brick or the assembled units. The assembled have metal boxes or firebrick liners. The metal pipes are made for the chimney giving you excellent clearance. The masonry units also provide you good clearance, especially if metal pipes are enclosed within a frame. The metal when it extends out of the top of your chimney will offer you good clearance. The accessories offered to you online provide you with choices of 20-inches of gas heater logs combined with over 60 blower CFM grates. You have a deep width.

Accessories can offer you something more for your fireplace. Choose the accessories to fit your need and budget.

The fireboxes make nice designs in fireplaces, yet some of the most attractive fireplaces sold today include the European styles, and the line of Classic Flames. One of my favorite is the 28-inch Classic Flames, which is an electric fireplace with insert. Dim controls and other features make this one of the nicest fireplaces marketed. The glow of fire coming from the logs is impressive over the black colors of charming designs. For a couple hundred bucks, you can take this baby home. The item is offered at various

stores online so be sure to compare pricing. Its ember bed makes a nice front face chamfered design, yet you may take interest in other styles more. To find your style check out the fireplaces online. Installing tips is available for you so that you can get the most of your stove or fireplace.

Installing Your Wood-Burning Fireplace or Stove

How should I install my wood-burning fireplace or stove?

The short answer is very carefully! The longer answer involves a questionhow handy are you, really? Home improvement tasks can be fun and rewarding, and many people choose to improve their repairperson skill by doing odd jobs around the house. However, installing a fireplace is the wrong place to practice your DIY skills. The installation of a wood-burning fireplace or stove is not the same sort of home-improvement task as installing a new cabinet or shelf in your kitchen; it is something very, very serious. You will be handling materials that, if installed properly by a knowledgeable person, will guarantee the long life and safety of your new fireplace for years to come.

However, if you are unfamiliar with these materials and/or if you have limited to no experience in handling the sort of insulating materials that come standard with the installation of any fireplace, whether it burns wood, gas or some other fuel, you could be playing a dangerous game with the health and safety of your family, and should reconsider. It is crucial that all materials accompanying your new fireplace or stove be handled by somebody who is well-used to the installation of fireplaces and stoves; not only for reasons of common sense and safety, but many manufacturers will void their warranty of damage is caused by installation by an unqualified person. When it comes to installing fireplaces, you need to call somebody

who knows what he or she is doing, and if that person is not you, you should put down the hammer, step away from the fireplace and call a professional!

How can I find a good service to install my wood-burning fireplace or stove?

As with choosing any service, the reputation of the company is paramount. Now is not the time to skimp on cost. Call many companies, and ask for several references. You probably will not hear from any disgruntled customers, since companies will not put you in touch with their unhappy clients, but those customers are nonetheless your opportunity to ask how the company operates. Ask how long it took to complete the job, and how this length of time differed from what the company first quoted. Do ask about quoted price versus final price, since wide discrepancies there could be an indication of something wrong.

Once you have talked to the customers and picked a few companies that seem promising, call your Better Business Bureau and order reports on each of the companies. A long list of unresolved or serious complaints against the company should be treated with great seriousness; if you are putting the safety of your home and family in the hands of a company, you want them to have as few complaints against them as possible.

Finally, once you have narrowed your list down to two or three companies, get price quotes, and go with the one that both fits your budget best and the one with whom you are the most comfortable.

What should it cost to install my wood-burning fireplace or stove?

There is no real set answer to this question. This will depend on the make and model of fireplace you have picked and the sort of home you live in, as

well as the various materials that are being used. Installation prices can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars; once you have found a company you are comfortable with, they should be very up front about the cost of installation. Look around for the deals. Prepare wisely.

Preparing Your Home for Your New Wood-Burning Fireplace or Stove

What are some things I should do to prepare my home for my wood-burning fireplace or stove?

It is certainly important to make sure that your home is ready for your new fireplace. However, because every unit is so different, it is difficult to come up with a very specific list of how to prepare your home for the installation of your new fireplace. You can also rest assured that if you have done your homework and chosen wisely, your fireplace manufacturer and/or your fireplace installation service will certainly be sure to let you know if there is anything specific to the type and model of stove or fireplace you have chosen that you need to do to prepare for. However, there are some things that you as the customer may want to do in order to be sure that installation goes as smoothly as possible.

The first thing you will want to do, particularly if you have chosen to purchase a wood stove, is to arrange for the installation of heat barriers to protect your home from the hazards of a potential fire due to the heat your new stove will generate. This is something that you can try to do yourself, if you are fairly handy, but be certain to check the building codes for insulation against fireplaces and heat before you purchase supplies. If you were not certain you could meet the requirements, it would be safest to ask your installation service to do the job for you.

When readying your home for the arrival of your fireplace and the installation service, look around the room where the fireplace will go. Are there any rugs, curtains or wall hangings near the proposed installation spot that could be a fire hazard? Move them before the installation service gets there; also be sure to take things off the walls that could be knocked down as the movers come in with your fireplace and their equipment. It may be prudent to lay a non-slip runner from your front door to the proposed location for the fireplace, so movers will not track in excess dirt, mud or dust in poor weather. It should also be understood that all children and pets should be removed from the area during installation for everybodys safety.

It depends on the type of fireplace being installed, yet there may also be a considerable amount of dust and debris showered all over your lovely furniture. Use old sheets or painters drop cloths to cover anything that cannot be taken out of the room altogether, in order to protect upholstery and wood finish from the hazards of plaster dust and other renovation inevitabilities.

What are some problems I should expect when installing my wood-burning fireplace or stove?

If you have found a good fireplace manufacturer, and if you have chosen your installation service wisely, your problems should be minimal. Professionals will have a good idea of what to expect, especially if they have done the professional thing and come inside to inspect the area before commencing installation. Nevertheless, it is wise to ask your installation service what you can do to be prepared in the event of an emergency; they will have the experience necessary to advise you on what might go wrong, and how to prepare for any possible inconveniences that might arise. Check out information for EPA, since you will find some helpful tips in installing your new fireplace or wood burning stove. Prepare wisely. You should not have any problems, especially if you follow proper rules and guidelines. Care and cleaning instructions can help you get the most of your fireplaces.

Care and cleaning instructions for the chimneys of wood-burning stoves and fireplaces

Why is it so important that I keep my chimney cleaned?

Because regular cleaning of your wood-burning fireplaces chimney is the surest way to prevent dangerous chimney fires, it is crucial to keep the chimney cleaned on a regular basis. Chimney fires can be relatively

harmless if they are very small, but a larger chimney fire is extremely difficult to control and can sometimes be almost impossible to extinguish. A best-case scenario for such a large fire is that it will merely damage the chimney or the liner of the chimney itself. All too often, however, such large chimney fires can spread to the roof of your house or even to the walls, causing a dangerous and potentially very costly fire.

While there is always a small risk of chimney fire, especially with an older chimney and fireplace, this risk can be drastically reduced provided that the chimney is cleaned on a regular basis. Chimneys that are not cleaned on a regular basis are the ones that run the greatest risk of fire, since cleaning reduces the amount of creosote present in the chimney. A chimney that is not cleaned regularly will have the biggest problems with the buildup of creosote, the substance that will cause the chimney fire. Creosote is a substance formed naturally when the wood burns in the fireplace, and carried up into the chimney with the smoke where it will adhere to the chimney walls. Creosote is a dangerously flammable substance and regular cleaning of the chimney is the only way to be sure that creosote is kept to a minimum, which drastically decreases the risk of a fire catching in your chimney that could all too easily spread to the rest of the house.

How do I minimize the buildup of creosote in my chimney?

Believe it or not, burning a very hot fire in your fireplace is one way to keep creosote levels down. The worst creosote buildup occurs when small fires are burned for a short period of time. A hot fire burned for a long period of time will not produce the same degree of creosote and will actually reduce present levels by a small degree, meaning that regular and consistent use of your fireplace is one way to keep the chimney at least partially cleared. Cleaning your chimney annually can help reduce creosote also.

However, there is no real substitute for the regular cleaning of your chimney; dont skimp on cost, either. While those chimney-cleaning logs can be partially effective, its best to have a professional company come in at least once annually to do the thing properly. The yellow pages will offer the names of licensed companies that provide a full cleaning service, and may even entitle you to a deductible on your insurance.

How often should I clean my chimney?

At a minimum of once a year, certainly, but you should also check the local regulations. Believe it or not, many municipalities actually have laws that dictate how often a chimney must be cleaned; they have realized how many chimney fires can become deadly, and so have instated regulations. Even if your town doesnt have such regulations, though, your insurance company might; check all that fine print over carefully, and see if there are any stipulations about how often you have to clean your chimney in order to be eligible for coverage against fire. Otherwise, if the fire department were to determine a fire was caused by a poorly cleaned chimney, you might be out more than just a roof!

The general tips to help you learn how to care for your fireplace.

General tips for safety when using a wood-burning fireplace or stove

Is my stove or fireplace a safety hazard?

This can be a tricky question, since the word hazard is so loaded. Certainly, anything that involves flame is to be considered a safety concern, but if proper precautions are taken to ensure the responsible burning of fuels in a fireplace or stove there is no reason that your fireplace or stove should ever need to be considered a hazard. Do remember, though, that the responsible burning of fuels means you should never leave a fireplace or stove unattended for any real length of time. Of course, it may be necessary to leave the room from time to time, and there is no reason to chain yourself to the fireplace to catch every spark that escapes, but follow a few rules of common sense to make it safer. Certainly dont leave a fire burning in an open fireplace unattended for any real period of time. Even fires in airtight stoves should be checked on periodically to reduce risks of house fires.

When it comes to open fireplaces, it is even more important to be vigilant; at most, consider leaving the room for a few minutes or less. If you have young children, they should never be left in the room with the fireplace; take them with you when you go, even if you will only be out of the room for a minute. Nobody knows better than a parent how quick children are when it comes to getting into things that just arent good for them!

How can I make my open fireplace safer for my children and pets?

A good first step is never to leave small children or animals unattended with a fireplace or even with a wood stove, since young children could too easily approach the open fireplace, and they have no concept of the dangers posed by a hot stove. Certainly, no caring parent will ever let a small child find out the hard way that a hot stove burns little fingers if he or she can possibly

prevent it. The same goes for pets; train them to stay away from the stove if at all possible. If your cat seems inclined to sleep on top of the stove, either construct a barrier that makes it impossible for her to reach the stovetop, or consider investing in an insulating pad to protect her from the searing heat.

With open fireplaces, a fire screen is crucial. Even if you are in the room with your pets and small children, and even if you are reasonably confident that you can keep them from reaching the fireplace, sparks can still escape and leap an amazing distance. These little cinders can singe pets fur or burn babies faces, so the simple addition of a fire screen will make it much safer for all concerned; keeping sparks in where they belong. It is also wise to consider that some young children and certain pets are especially sensitive to wood smoke; pet birds are especially sensitive to many aromas, and should not be kept in the same room as an open fireplace if it can be avoided. Furthermore, if your children seem to have difficulty breathing when the fire is lit, you may want to check for allergies to smoke, and investigate airtight alternatives.

How to find helpful insight to keep your home safe You will find helpful insight at EPA websites or anywhere that stoves and fireplaces are sold. Take advantage of the free information so that you get the most of your product. Choosing the perfect spot in installation is important.

Choosing the perfect spot for a new wood-burning fireplace or stove

How important is it to have the perfect spot chosen for our fireplace or stove?

Surprisingly enough, it can be very important indeed to have an ideal spot chosen for your new fireplace or stove. The location you pick affects how the heat from your new fireplace or stove will radiate throughout your house, and it will also affect the aesthetics of whatever room you select as the location for your new fireplace or stove. Since the location will have such an impact on the people who live in your house, as well as a lesser impact on the people who visit you, it is actually very important to consider the location well before the date of installation. Consult your significant other to gain his or her input on the location, and if you find yourselves in conflict, you may even want to bring in the opinions of older children; they can have surprising insights into factors you may not even have considered!

What are some factors we need to consider when choosing a place for our new fireplace or stove?

One of the first things you will want to take under consideration when deciding the location for your new fireplace or stove is the spread of heat through your house. Obviously, an open-plan home will not present the same

dilemma as a more traditional, enclosed style of home; if your home is more enclosed in style, take some time to examine the layout of the rooms and consider to what extent you are willing to rearrange your furniture to accommodate your new acquisition. Think about daily traffic through your house; consider your children, pets and entertainment requirements. Also, consider the room with the highest amount of traffic; if you have a rarely used front room but a family room where you congregate daily, consider focusing your energy on placing the fireplace or woodstove in that room. That way you can cut heating costs in the other rooms of the house by turning down your primary heating source and using your new fireplace or woodstove to keep the primary family room at a more comfortable temperature.

However, I really wanted to put the fireplace or stove somewhere else!

Once you have found the location that offers the best heat radiation, take a minute to see what will have to be rearranged to accommodate your choice. Is the choice one that makes sense both in terms of ease of placement and installation, and also in terms of prolonged use? Alternatively, do you think it will turn out to more trouble than its worth to put your new fireplace or woodstove in the place youve selected as ideal? Should you really have to sacrifice an entire loveseat or armchair to get the ideal placement for your fireplace? You really shouldnt have to turn your life upside down to make a fireplace fit in if there is a location that is slightly less than ideal in terms of heat radiation but much more convenient in terms of lifestyle and furniture arrangement, then go for it.

Once you chosen your location you can start learning new ways to heat your home in a safe way. You have optional accessories also so that you can get the most in your cost saving unit. Feel free to explore more about inserts,

glass doors, vents and other accessories to save you money. Various websites online will direct you to links that inform you how to get the most performance in your fireplaces and how to choose options that get you the most in heating your home.

Cleaning your wood-burning fireplace or stove

How important is it to clean my fireplace or stove?

In the short-term, it isnt terribly crucial to clean your fireplace or stove out. However, over a period of a few months you would be surprised at how fast ashes can build up in the bed of a wood-burning fireplace or a woodstove. These can become very messy if left untended to, and they can also create less room to build a fire, so it is important that these ashes be kept to a minimum in order to promote the continued beauty and the optimal operation of your wood-burning fireplace or your woodstove.

What is the best and safest way to clean the stove?

First of all, you are going to have to set aside a good chunk of time, since this can get messy and requires a little preparation beforehand. You will likely want to lay down a small drop cloth around the stove, and be sure to keep small children and pets out of the room, since the last thing you need are inquisitive noses and/or hands poked into a bucket of ashes. You will end up with a cloudy, sooty mess! Corral pets in a separate room and ask your significant other to mind small children, or wait until nap time, or even arrange for a friend or relative to baby-sit. This is something you dont want interrupted!

You will have to make sure not to use your stove or fireplace at least twentyfour hours before you plan to clean it, since you want to be sure the ashes have cooled off from the last fire. Do not attempt to hasten the process by dousing them with water, as this will make the ashes wet and even harder to clean. Ashes can be removed into a metal or cardboard container by use of a shovel, or you can use a special vacuum meant for the task of removing ashes to extract them from the fireplace or woodstove. Many municipalities will collect cold ashes, but may have special regulations for the container they are placed in. Be sure to check up on this before attempting to put them by the road.

Once the ashes are gone, you can use a special wire brush to clean out the damper and the lower part of the chimney. You will need another, stiffbristled brush to clean the bed of the fireplace itself. In addition, you will want to research the various cleaning fluids available before putting any of them into use. As some of them are more toxic than others and require more stringent precautions in the form of masks and ventilation before use. You will then want to let the fireplace or woodstove dry out thoroughly before attempting to light another fire.

Yuck! This sounds far too messy for me- are there people who will do this for me?

Certainly there are many services available that will either include or focus on the cleaning of your stove. Consult the yellow pages and ask about charges for regular cleaning; you may find that it is an entirely economical alternative to doing the task yourself (plus, think what you could save on babysitting charges!)

You can use the search engine on the Internet also to find cleaning services in your area. Just go to the search engine, type in keywords related to your needs and you will find tons of links. The links will offer you many resources and the ability to type in your area code to find cleaning services in your area. Compare the costs!

Are you ready for some remodeling?

Remodeling your wood-burning fireplace or stove

I am bored with my current fireplace or stove; do I have to buy a whole new one?

You certainly do not need to buy a whole new fireplace or wood stove to replace your old one simply for the sake of updating its look unless you absolutely want to. Obviously if there are more practical reasons for the replacement, such as a cracked or unsafe unit, then a complete replacement may be necessary, and certainly if you have the finances, and want to really go all-out in upgrading your current fireplace or wood stove, then there is no real reason you should not. However if there is no safety reason for the replacement, and/or if finances are an issue or you merely want to effect a little facelift, you do not need to buy a whole new fireplace or wood stove. There are a number of less expensive alternative options that can provide the same aesthetic overhaul without necessitating the purchase of an entirely new unit, and depending on the sort of new look you are after, one or more of these may be just the minor tweak needed to update that tired fireplace or stove.

What are some ways to remodel my current fireplace or stove?

There is quite a range of remodeling options open to you, depending on what degree of facelift you want to effect on your fireplace or woodstove. For fireplaces, you may want to consider updating your mantel by painting it a new color, sanding it down and re-staining it, or uninstalling it to be replaced with a new type of wood or stone. You may perhaps consider painting over

or even changing the material of the stone or brick, as both can go a long way toward changing the look of your fireplace.

For woodstoves it can be a bit more difficult to slap on a coat of paint, although this is certainly not out of the realm of possibility; just remember to purchase paints that are specifically designed to adhere to such hot surfaces. Another, slightly more expensive way of updating the look of your woodstove is to change the tiles around it; consider a new color, pattern or material of tile. This can go a long way toward updating the look of your old woodstove.

How much will this remodeling cost?

The answer to this question varies widely depending on what degree of remodeling you have done and who you ask to perform the task for you. An elaborate and well-done remodel can cost a great deal of money but be more than worth it, aesthetically speaking. The materials used to remodel also affect the price; certainly some materials such as marble and more expensive types of wood will set you back more than cheaper alternatives, but more expensive materials can also better withstand the test of time, so take longevity into consideration as well as price.

Remember, if you dont want to go all out for the full remodel, you could conceivably do something as simple as hanging a new painting or mirror over top of the fireplace mantel, or updating the decorations on the mantel itself. You might be surprised how a simple thing like that can change the look not jus of your fireplace, but of the whole room!

You can save money on remodeling by shopping around online. Look for the discounts to save you money. Various stores online compete against the

other, so often you will find great deals at many of the online stores. Look for clearances and bargains to save additional cash.

Conclusion: Potbelly, fireboxes, European fireplaces and wood burning stoves have all changed over the years to offer you top quality performance. Many stoves and fireplaces sold today incorporate many features to give you style and cost-efficiency. Remember, if you are buying fireplaces or stoves take time to learn safety, maintenance, cleaning and other details so that you get the most of your appliances. Dont forget to look for bargains, coupons, discounts and other savings so that you get what you want for less the cost.