Submitted by: C Burgess
Ethanol Fireplaces are vent less, odor less, does not need a chimney or a chimney flue to work (like a wood Fireplaces does). No soot to clean up. No yearly exam, from chimney Sweeps who come in and inspect and clean out creosote that is sticking in the liner of the chimney. The Ethanol Fireplaces are ready to use out of the box. Nearly all tabletop fireplaces are assembled, just slide the ethanol burner insert in and attached the safety glass. Free standing fireplace are simple 5 part assembly which requires a standard screw driver and 10 minutes. Are the Ethanol fireplaces safe to use? Yes. The fireplace burns an environmentally green friendly Ethanol Fireplace Fuel made from renewable energy source. It burns a clean flame, and odor less. Popular with any dcor in a building even outside on Patio.
The Wood Fireplace do need a well built chimney and chimney flue (chimney flue needs a good liner with no cracks or leaks) to help get the smoke out of the house and try to keep the heat in the home. A wood fireplace wastes (about) 80% of the heat up the chimney. Furnaces and wood stoves were invented because wood fireplaces don’t effectively heat, because of the chimney flue pulling air out of the room and tosses it up the chimney with it’s own heat. Building the fire and having the fire going, you must have the chimney flue open. When the fire is out, you must close the chimney flue so you don’t lose the heat that you have already. Always, when you first think about building the fireplace, you must think about making your wall, fireproof. This is a must to check with your City’s Enforcement Officers to see what you would need or if the wood fireplace are banned in your area due to pollution concerns. You want to do it right so you don’t have a fire and lose your home. Check with a Fireplace contractor if you decide to build. Wood heat is a lifestyle choice and takes a lot of work (cutting wood, stacking to keep it dry carrying it in the house), This should be considered before you buy.
If you do buy a home with a wood fireplace in it, have it check out by a certified chimney sweep(someone that knows chimneys, how to clean and what to look for in cleaning a wood fireplace from the basement to the top of the chimney). You don’t want a chimney fire! If you have a crack or leak in the chimney or liner, you could feel like a breeze, an odor or a big draft in one of your rooms in your home, you have a problem. If it has not been use for a time there could be a build up of creosote in the chimney or an obstruction example is dead animals, nests and debris. Raccoons love to climb down the flue and call it home. Another expense is to get a chimney cap, it serves to keep out the small animals and debris out. Chimney fires are the results of creosote accumulation. Creosote is a product of incomplete wood combustion, and it tends to build up when there is enough creosote inside the chimney, it can catch fire and be very hazardous. It often vent out threw cracks in liners often into an attic and starts a fire inside the house. Install a carbon monoxide detector somewhere not to close to the fireplace in case there is a build up of creosote. When creosote burns it gets hot enough to melt the cement between the block in the chimney.
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