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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m considering it. I had a gas fireplace put in my previous home in 2020 and from start to finish it was over $10,000 and we already had gas there. I’m not willing to pay that again. I saw some nice looking electric ones on Wayfair and I’m probably gonna pull the trigger for one in the next year. [/quote]

Thinking about it too -- mainly b/c we never use our gas fireplace logs (installed by the previous owner) b/c we don't like lighting it (feels dangerous) and we have to have the flu open when it is on, so it sucks all the heat OUT of the house just to have the benefit of seeing real flames!  What's the point of that?  The house gets colder when the logs are lit.  So, we keep the flu closed and the firelogs OFF.  BUT, with an electric fireplace, we'd have no gas emissions, and we'd likely get some heat out of it.

My DH has a faux fireplace/electric heater in his basement home office.  It puts out a lot of heat.  It's not the greatest to look at.  But, if we got one that fit our fireplace, I think it would have better optics.  We would have to pay someone to remove the existing gas logs and block off the gas valve, plus install an outlet.  So, converting a gas fireplace log set to electric fireplace is going to cost some $$ too... and we haven't wanted to spend that yet.

Our cheapest solution would be to set up one of the multi-candle sets in front of the fireplace that we have and call it a day.  Still, there is pollution from the candle-burning.... so for now we haven't done anything.[/quote]

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