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Were you shopping for a grill over the summer that you just cannot stop thinking about? Or maybe you are looking at fireplace tools that your spouse would love to have. Now you can layaway for the holidays.

Come on in a take a look at our wood stoves and pellet stoves, gas fireplace inserts and wood fireplace inserts and grills. Put down a deposit and pay until the holidays; and on any product or combination of products in the store over $300.

We know times are tough, so pay when you can and start shopping now. Take advantage of our layaway plan on whatever you need to heat your home. And we have an October special too. Buy any wood, pellet or gas fireplace insert and get half off the chimney liner.

Gas, Wood  and Pellet fireplace inserts are easy to use and turn an ordinary fireplace into something extraordinary. Improve your décor, increase your home value and improve your heating efficiency; all at the same time.

Layaway for the holiday, at West Sport. Contact us today.

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.

Wood burning fireplaces, inserts and stoves are all great ways to supplement - or even replace - the usual gas- and oil-fired furnaces we use to heat our homes. With our record breaking snow and cold that we have been having many of you have burned a few cords of wood this winter. Burning wood is very environmentally sound, but then the question arises, after cleaning your stove and removing the ashes with your ash bucket, what to do with the ashes? At West Sport in Sudbury, we have a couple of suggestions. Of course, you need a metal receptacle to store the ashes in first.

Has your dog been skunked? Well, rub a couple handfuls into his or her coat, this neutralizes the lingering odor. Their coat color may be a bit different, but it is worth it to get the smell to go away.

If you have been painting near the driveway or walkways, and you’ve got paint spatters, drop a handful of ash into the wet paint and rub it around with your boot or shoe.

This blends the color into the concrete. Keep a can of ashes handy when you’re painting near the driveway or walks.

Before the organic mix is applied to soil, Ashes enhance soils potassium content; sprinkle some ashes into your organic mix before you add it to the soil. But don’t over-do it. Ashes raise the soil’s alkalinity, so avoid using them around acid-loving rhododendrons, azaleas and junipers.

This spring spread some ashes evenly around garden beds, ash repels slugs and snails. Dusted over growing plants, it keeps beetles and caterpillars at bay. But keep in mind that you need to re-apply; ashes will wash off in the rain.

Wood ashes add traction, and the dark color absorbs solar heat to melt ice without hurting the soil, pavement or concrete underneath.

Gas prices are rising and so are the fuel costs for heating your home. Wood fireplace inserts are a perfect solution. The Hearthstone wood fireplace insert is a beautiful and efficient solution. By supplementing your home heating system, or replacing it altogether, with a wood burning insert, you can decrease your heating bills and enhance the ambience and beauty of your home, all while raising the value of your home.

The Clydesdale wood burning fireplace insert brings with it both heating power and beauty. This insert will warm up to 2000 square feet of space and with a burn time of 10 hours, you can come home to a beautiful fire and a warm home every day.  Available in three different finishes, you can surely add flair and style to your living room with this beautiful fireplace insert.

At West Sport in Sudbury, we show this insert burning every day and it will surely take your breath away. Come on in and see it in use and you will understand why Hearthstone in general and this insert in particular are sought after as one of the most productive, efficient and beautiful heat sources for any home.