Do you remember wood burning stoves? They seem to be reminiscent of another era when the family hunkered down through a long winter with dog eared old books and boxes of checkers ready on the old table across from the potbellied stove. Fireplaces, on the other land, evoke visions of ski resorts and holiday trips to snowy mountains. But fireplaces are wasteful as anyone who has had to keep them stocked well knows. Fortunately for the world, as fall and winter approach, there is a new solution to the problem. The Fireplace insert.
Fireplace inserts are really just little stoves that are built to sit into old fireplaces and their masonry. These devices burn wood, just like a fireplace, and give off that lovely light and the crackle of burning wood exactly the same as well. The differences are that the insert is closed off in glass, and the insert can really heat a house.
Because modern stoves are built for maximum efficiency, using advanced understandings of airflow and energy transfer, they can give off a lot of heat from a little wood and can keep that wood slowly combusting for much longer. Putting at stove in as an insert to fill an old fireplace is therefore a fantastic solution for anyone who wants to keep that nostalgic, familial atmosphere and also take a drastic stab at their heating bill.
It is a good in between, middle road solution to the problem. And with expert installation providing safety, relatively inexpensive wood as a fuel source, and rapid expansion of the stove market lowering prices, now is the best time ever to invest in something that will keep your home warm, and still looking like a nostalgic dwelling of yesteryear.
