Super Fitness Health BlogI love my new super efficient fireplace
My family had a fireplace when I was growing up. We didn’t use it much — just for special occasions and holidays. But it was one of my favorite things.
It’s no wonder, then, that I wanted to have a fireplace when I bought my own home.
I didn’t know much about fireplaces or the dynamics of heating a home when I first bought my house, with its fake-brick fireplace. What I did know was that if I wanted to be warm, I had to sit right in front of my fireplace, where I would virtually bake! And the rest of the house was freezing cold.
Much as I loved having a fireplace, I soon learned that I was creating a situation where all the cold air was being sucked in from outside through every nook and cranny, and the hot air was going up my chimney.
This year, I bit the bullet and bought a new Brentwood fireplace by Lennox. And I just love it!
It’s highly efficient; there’s an airtight seal on the door, which you keep closed, normally. The fire is “fed” by outside air, which they created a special vent for, under the fireplace and out to the outside wall.
It has blowers, which are thermostatically controlled, to move that hot air around the room. So unless the fire is sufficiently hot, the blowers stay off. Once it gets hot, those blowers blow that warm air into the room.
In front of the fireplace, it’s nice and warm — not uncomfortably hot. And the rest of the house is a little cooler, of course, but not freezing cold!
I highly recommend this kind of high-efficiency fireplace. If you love watching fires in the cold winter, but you don’t want to just let all that hot air go up your chimney instead of heating your home, these are wonderful!
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