Add One of the Many Wood Fireplace Inserts to Your Home Today
So, save some money this winter. Stop paying those huge oil bills. Add one of the many styles available to your home this winter.
Table of Contents
- Wood Stove Inserts: Prevent your Heat from Going up the Chimney!
- Heating with Wood DVD Set
- Wood Burning Stove Inserts Are This Easy to Install
- Learn More About Wood Burning Fireplace Inserts
- Cleaner-Burning Wood Stove Inserts and Fireplaces
- More about Wood Stove Inserts
- Buy A Practical Design Guide to Fireplaces and Stoves Indoors and Out
- Wood Stove Inserts - Wonderful Addition to the Family Room
- News and Views on Wood Burning Appliances
- Tell us about your fireplace and wood stove insert!
Wood Stove Inserts: Prevent your Heat from Going up the Chimney!
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That's right. Traditional fireplaces are great for atmosphere, but a large percentage of the heat generated from your burning logs literally goes up the chimney along with the smoke.
With the price of any home fuel, including wood, you want to burn as efficiently as you can. Many people are upgrading their open fireplaces to one of the many new models of wood stove inserts available today for that reason. They want to save fuel and money.
Wood stove inserts are great to have. You still get to enjoy the ambiance of having a fire, but a higher percentage of the heat goes into your home, not up the chimney. Add a blower or fan, and you can easily heat a modest sized home with the right model.
You want to know more pluses?
- Easier to clean
- Safer to use
- More heat with less wood
- Save more money
- More independence from the local utility company
How can you go wrong with so many advantages? Check out some of the different styles of wood stove inserts you can find.
Heating with Wood DVD Set
Learn how to begin heating with wood immediately
Ted and Deb Sokolowski have created this outstanding set of Heating with Wood DVD's so you can learn from the best!
Heating with Wood DVD Set
Amazon Price: $35.95 (as of 07/06/2009)
Ted and Deb Sokolowski show you through hands-on demonstrations how to burn wood safely. They start with harvesting the wood and continue through to burning wood safely.
You get all this on your DVD set:
Disc 1
1 Wood Burning Appliances
A look at modern wood burning appliances
Types of wood stoves
Fireplace inserts, Central heating units
Appliance size and placement and more...
2 Starting & Maintaining a Fire
The basics of getting a good draft
Details of starting and building fires
How to control burn rates
Things you should never burn
Tips on ash disposal and more...
3 Chimney Maintenance
The importance of professional installation
The right chimney location
Preventing a chimney fire
How to handle a chimney fire
How to clean your own chimney and more...
4 Safety
Clearances and heat shields
Child safety
Smoke alarms and CO detectors
Tips on using a fire extinguisher and more...
5 Enjoying Your Hearth
An overview of hearth accessories
Disc 2
6 Sources of Wood
Btu values of different woods
Tips on buying firewood
What is a face cord?
Finding free or low cost firewood and more...
7 Cutting Your Own Wood
Instruction on safe use of a chain saw
Chain saw hazards and safety tips
Process of cutting up an entire tree
Working with a cant hook
Using wedges and more...
8 Splitting Firewood
Operating basics of a hydraulic log splitter
Manual splitting: tools, safety & techniques
Reading end-grain for safe and easy splitting
Log splitter safety and more...
9 Stacking & Drying
The importance of dry wood
Determining if wood is dry enough to burn
How to stack wood for maximum drying
Tips on wood storage and more...
BONUS! "Ted's Goody Box"
Adding Life to Your Chain Saw
How to clean and maintain your chain saw
Sharpening Chain Saws
How to easily sharpen your own chain saw
Wood Stove Maintenance
How to change fire brick, door and glass gaskets
Identifying Trees
Identifying 24 common species found in northeastern US
Wood Burning Stove Inserts Are This Easy to Install
Learn More About Wood Burning Fireplace Inserts
The Backyard Lumberjack
"...covers...getting trees from forest to fireplace with such enthusiasm...that you'll find yourself hankering to swing a maul."-Mary Beth Breckenridge
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 07/06/2009)
The Woodburner's Companion: Practical Ways of Heating with Wood
"Thomas gives clear instructions on different techniques to burn wood safely, efficiently, and comfortably." -- --Diane Conners
Amazon Price: $12.38 (as of 07/06/2009)
Fireplaces: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer (IdeaWise)
"...will ignite readers with inspiration for using decorative fire features in home and yard decor. Any home becomes a little warmer, a little cheerier when it has a fireplace, an outdoor fire pit, or some other fire feature..."
Amazon Price: $16.61 (as of 07/06/2009)
Cleaner-Burning Wood Stove Inserts and Fireplaces
Today's Wood Stove Inserts Are Better for You and Your Family
According to the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), if you have one of the wood stove inserts or wood stoves that are more than seven years old, consider replacing it with one of the newer, advanced combustion units.
The EPA-certified emission value can be compared from one model to another. Manufacturers of wood stove inserts have improved their combustion technologies. Some of the newer stoves have lowered their particulate emissions to the range of one to four grams per hour.
The newer certified wood stove inserts have features that promote the secondary combustion. Most of the features are designed to burn off the dangerous chemicals and toxic substances before they leave the firebox and enter your home.
This is achieved when:
- The fire has an adequate supply of oxygen
- The gases from the fires are at high temperature and mixed with preheated air, specifically oxygen
- The gases have enough time to burn before they cool down
More about Wood Stove Inserts
More information about wood stove inserts!
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Wood Stove Inserts - Wonderful Addition to the Family Room
Hampton Wood Stove Inserts are easy to have installed.
Tell us about your fireplace and wood stove insert!
Share how much you enjoy your wood stove insert. Let us know what benefits you have discovered.
CleanerLife wrote...
Wood stoves are great! Wood is a renewable resource, and the trees do so much for the environment while they are growing. Using that wood in the most efficient way possible is also pretty smart!
Posted June 08, 2009
HenryE wrote...
I've never heard of such a thing but it looks really neat! We live in Florida, so warmth isn't such a concern but I love a good fire in the fireplace!
Henry
www.geothermalexperts.net
Posted May 15, 2009
