If your fireplace actually puts out heat, do you use it often?
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Anonymous
Fireplaces are terrible for you!!! This is a known fact and not even debatable! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/01/avoid-using-wood-burning-stoves-if-possible-warn-health-experts https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/smoke-residential-wood-burning https://www.popsci.com/health/wood-stove-air-pollution-epa/ https://www.lung.org/clean-air/at-home/indoor-air-pollutants/residential-wood-burning https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/burn-wise-facts-figures-health-and-safety-tips |
Anonymous
You are simply wrong. Current catalytic stoves have a particulate matter released less than any other fossil fuels. You're much better burning wood at 80% then you are coal or oil at 70%. Plus, there is an enormous environmetal cost to burning petrlouem. Not with wood. |
Anonymous
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Wood burner here and yes it does heat my living room and kitchen. Used it every winter.
Usually paid $100 per cord twice a year but since we put in a new heating system we have not used the fireplace in 2 years. The new homes near us are being built with outside fireplaces so I'm going to say wood is not only more expensive but going to get harder to find and we live somewhat rural. Our last home had a natural gas system. We only used it a few times. I never felt comfortable having it on. |
Anonymous
If you think 100% of the smoke goes up the chimney I'm questioning whether you've ever been in the same room with an operating fireplace. |
Anonymous
We use ours rarely, and only for ambiance. It really does not get very cold here. |
Anonymous
| Fireplaces are very inefficient. Because the warm air rises it creates a vacuum condition in theme home and draws in colder air from outside. This is true for both wood burning and gas fireplaces. Adding a stove insert can make a huge difference to minimize this issue. |
Anonymous
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First of all who's getting all this wood so cheaply?! I'm in Rockville and it's $600 a cord and you have to stack it yourself.
We try to be conservative and use half a cord every winter. We installed a wood stove / chimney liner in our basement and love it. It does keep the whole house cozy. There's absolutely no smell of smoke anywhere and you can let it go all night and wake up feeling warm. |
Anonymous
Yeah, and the sellers often cheat the definition of a chord. A chord is a stacked volume, not just a load dumped in a truck. Most are losing 20%. https://www.thespruce.com/firewood-cord-storage-1907998 |
Anonymous
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We have a sealed gas fireplace with an intake air duct at the bottom, the air then travels through a curved pipe inside the fireplace and it releases the newly heated air at the top. Totally closed off, so no smoke or fumes can get in our house.
We use the fireplace, but not often, and mostly for ambiance rather than for heating. |
Anonymous
I love that you people who live in the city, inhaling exhaust every minute of your lives, are deathly afraid of a wood fire. - Rural resident who lives half a mile off the nearest paved road and uses a wood-burning fire for heat from October to April |
Anonymous
How do you know where the pp lives? |