Fireplaces provides additional heating alternative for your home and creates a relaxing environment. The chimney thus removes smoke from the fireplace and vents it outside but still you can end up with smoke wafting through house. The smoke becomes worsen on a windy day and could be troublesome if you inhale over a longer period of time. This makes it important to hire a chimney contractor to maintain them.
It’s a good old-fashioned way to get heat by wood burning. The smoke travels up a chimney to escapes into the air. However, the chimney helps to escape heat and many fireplace designers use variety of enhancements that increases the heat output of your fireplace.
Wood Fuel
Hard woods are the best type of wood to burn in the fireplace. Such type of woods burn hotter than conventional wood because they do not have moisture responsible for loss of heat. It also reduces the cost of fireplace repair due to water evaporation.
Air Vents
Some of the heat produced by fire escapes through chimney but air vents prevents this procedure. The air vents allow outside air to prevent chimney burning and thus chimney repair.
Dampers
Fireplaces also need dampers to minimize the wastage of energy and allow heat to travel up when the fire isn’t burning. There are two types of damper like top sealing damper or a throat damper. The throat is made up of a metal and reduces the draft in the fireplace. It also creates an air-tight seal to prevent heat leakage. However, dampers do not remain air-tight forever and heat makes the dampers to warp and give escape to heat. Property-owners are recommended to use a top-sealing damper that rests on the chimney top. It comes with a rubber seal and prevents loss of heat.
Fireplace Doors
Fireplace doors make the fireplace hotter because the fireplace uses the outside air to burn instead of burning inside air, which destroys some of the heat and thus prevents heat loss when you are not using the fireplace. Seek help from a chimney company to find out the best alternative.
Forced Air Blowers
Forced air blowers move the heat created by the fireplace into another room. This is great to have more heat than the rest of the house.
Fireplace Grates
Fireplace grates increase how much heat radiates into the home. These grates work the best for open fireplaces. The grates allow air to enter underneath the fire and help to increase the intensity at which fire can burn.
To make your fireplace safe and efficient, use gas fireplace inserts. A fireplace insert is basically a woodstove that fits into a masonry fireplace. Depending on the type of fireplace, it may actually leads to more wastage.
