Heating With Stoves & Fireplaces
Sep 10, 2015 | 11:47 AM
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As fall encroaches, many start to think of cold weather and the need to keep their homes warm over the upcoming winter. Using a stove or fireplace to supplement the needed heat can offer many benefits.
Today’s gas and wood burning stoves and fireplaces, offer many improvements over past generations of hearth products. Both gas and wood burning stoves and fireplaces have come a long way in the past decade. It is now common to find both gas and wood burning units that can achieve an efficiency of 85% plus.
It can be worth a review to see if an upgrade to a newer stove or fireplace can offer you some of the following;
- New stoves & fireplaces are much more efficient, in some cases up to – 50% more energy efficient.
- You can use one-third less firewood to produce the same amount of heat.
- Using new models represents savings in fuel, money, resources, and time.
- Many new fireplaces offer venting options, in which hot air can be directed into other rooms in the house, or even into the plenum of your existing furnace.
- Reduced risk of a house fire due to a lot less creosote build-up in the chimney.
- Being gentler on the environment and your health. New wood stoves produce 70% less particle pollution outdoors and inside, which can mean less potential health complications from wood by-products.
