WES Blog

Tax free holiday is approaching in Massachusetts. On the weekend of August 13th and 14th Massachusetts sales tax will be put on hold. So if you have been thinking about buying a new grill, or contemplating your home heating options for the winter, this tax free weekend will be the time to buy.

But you don’t have to wait for tax free weekend! Do your shopping now. Come on in to West Sport and take a look at our inventory. Ask some questions, see what interests you, and pick out a new wood burning or gas stove.

Have you always wanted a fireplace in the living room, but don’t have a chimney? No problem. We can find a fireplace to fit your décor in any room of your home and install it too. You don’t have a chimney, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a fireplace.

If you have been thinking about adding gas logs and custom glass fireplace doors to your existing fireplace, let us show you your options. Gas logs make a fireplace easy to use, and custom glass fireplace doors make your fireplace even more beautiful. At the flick of a switch, you can have a realistic fire burning in your family room.

Avoid the tax free holiday rush, and come on it to look at our spectacular lines of stoves, inserts, fireplaces and grills. You pay enough taxes; take advantage of the Massachusetts tax free holiday.

Even though it is warm there is still interest in wood stoves. I guess here in Metro-West Massachusetts we still haven’t really recovered from the winter. Alternative or supplemental heating for the winter is still on a lot of people’s minds.
In fact a report by a nonprofit group Alliance for Green Heat shows that wood heating dominates the residential renewable energy market, even with virtually no government subsidies to support it.

At the Fireplace and Grill Shop at West Sport, we have been fielding quite a few questions about wood heat. There are many styles and sizes of wood burning stoves and inserts.  Options that can fit in any style home, from rustic to contemporary and that can either heat the whole home or can heat a few rooms.

A wood burning fire offers you increased heating efficiency as well as ambiance. We offer a wide variety of wood burning stoves at West Sport, and we take care of the installation as well. With brands like Hearthstone and Napoleon, no one knows more about wood burning technology in the Metro West area than the professionals at West Sport. Many of our wood burning stoves and inserts are the cleanest, most efficient wood burning stoves on the market. They meet or beat EPA standards and wood has a much higher BTU capacity than gas, as well as being a renewable resource.

A wood stove is one of the most romantic and efficient ways to heat your home, providing a beautiful focal point in any room. If you have some questions about wood as a means to help heat your home this winter, contact us at West Sport.

The Middle East Conflicts have created a lot of concern over the prices of heating oil and gas. The price per barrel of home heating oil jumped 4% today. And depending on what happens there this week, oil prices could go higher. Although investor concerns about the unrest in the Mideast and North Africa are legitimate, considering they account for 35 percent of the world's oil supply and reserves, so far oil production and exports have not been affected.

Even those who are traditionally unconcerned with their heating bill have given thought to the price of heating their homes for the remainder of this winter. Combined with the fact that oil and gas prices only go higher in the summer, we cannot avoid the conversation about oil prices. With the tightening of our financial belts these last few years, we have seen ourselves cut back on going out to dinner, entertainment, the family get away, and much more. But in the cold weather, who wants to cut back on home heat.

No one wants to turn the heat down when it just seems to keep on snowing.Wood heat is the answer. With a wood burning stove or insert, you can avoid the oil and gas bill or at least supplement it. With wood burning inserts that can heat a 2000 sq ft home and burn for 10 hours, heating your home is not just inexpensive, it is easy.