Fireplace News and Info
Relaxing in front of the fireplace with family members, friends or by yourself can be an enjoyable experience. Like the days of old, when families would gather around the fireplace and discuss current events and what everyone was doing, you can spend family night around the fireplace playing games or talking. You can obtain efficient wood burning, gas and electric Napoleon fireplaces from New Energy Distributing, which provides quality hearth products for the home.
Napoleon fireplaces come in all different styles and types to fit your home improvement needs. Wood burning fireplaces are available to update and modernize your home and require a chimney or other venting. If your home is newer, you may not have a chimney and can use a direct vent fireplace instead. This type burns natural or propane gas and is directly vented through the outside wall and requires no chimney.
Some brands of fireplace inserts include a blower, which is a fan which you can turn on to have the heat from the fire blown into the room. You gain much more heat from an insert which burns the wood much more efficiently. There are different types of inserts available for wood burning which can be purchased from New Energy Distributing.
If you have a wood burning fireplace in your home and want to gain the heating benefit from the fireplace you can install a fireplace insert. Fireplace inserts are made of different metals, including cast iron and most feature a glass front to enjoy the ambiance from the fire. This sealed system acts as a combustion chamber to greatly increase the efficiency.
When you want a fireplace in your home, but do not have a brick chimney installed you can run metal chimney pipe as a venting source for your fireplace. This pipe is not complicated to install and easily connects to the top of the fireplace to allow gases and other harmful by-products of the fire to escape from the home while retaining the warmth from the fire. You will also need this type of pipe when installing wood burning stoves.
When shopping for a wood stove insert you can find several different styles and brands available online to fit the type of fireplace you want to update. There are wood burning and gas and inserts available from New Energy Distributing, which offers quality hearth products for the entire home.
A wood stove insert is a specially designed firebox which can be installed into your existing fireplace. This type of firebox is sealed and provides the ability to burn wood more efficiently and preventing heat from going up the chimney. This insert is often made of steel or cast iron. Inserts are available with blowers that circulate the warm air into the room.
By Bill Sendelback
Dealing with any government agency can be challenging, but the recent, and questionable, actions of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have been extremely frustrating for the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association (HPBA) in its struggle to save decorative gas fireplaces - and now gas logs.
Sine today's gas fireplaces are direct vented they can be installed into any room in the home in which you would like a fireplace. People are adding these types of fireplaces to their bathrooms and bedrooms to provide heating on cold winter's nights and save on running the furnace. You can shop for different designs and styles of fireplaces online from New Energy Distributing, which specializes in quality hearth products for the entire home for both indoor and outdoor areas.
Gas fireplaces are an affordable option for people who want to add a fireplace to their existing home but do not want the expense of having to put in a chimney. These types of fireplaces are direct vent, which means there is no need to cut through the roof, ceiling and other areas of the home to install the fireplace, but only require a direct vent through the outside where the unit is installed.