Are you redesigning, redecorating or remodeling a favorite room in your house? If so, now is the time to consider gas log sets and custom glass fireplace doors. Instead of an open fireplace  consider a fire that will add beauty and efficient warmth to your home.

Sure, you could add a fireplace insert, but then you are stuck with their design, not yours. If you are designing or remodeling a living space, custom glass fireplace doors can offer you the style you want to match your home.

Gas logs and glass fireplace doors make your fireplace more efficient while making it easier to use.  They cost much less than a fireplace insert too. Open fireplaces can be attractive, but they are very inefficient. If you want to use the fireplace, even sparingly, it would make more sense to add gas logs and glass fireplace doors. Open fireplaces draw the heat out of your house and up the chimney. Gas fireplaces light with the touch of a button and the glass doors make the heat more efficient. Gas log sets and glass fireplace doors allow you to be able to use the fireplace whenever you desire, even after a long day at work; with no hauling of wood or mess to clean up.

In fact, choose the style of log set too, your re-designed fireplace can have the exact style, look and feel you want. Gas log sets look that incredibly similar to natural wood. They are hand-crafted and hand-painted from real wood samples. And, you have more than 40 styles of log sets to choose from. The gas logs at West Sport are manufactured by Real Fyre, they are the most realistic looking gas logs on the market.

Gas logs and glass fireplace doors are faster to install than fireplace inserts, which means you can relax in front of the fire soon. For more information on gas logs and fireplace doors, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

Most homeowners around Natick and Sudbury love to enjoy a bright, burning fire in the winter. But, open fireplaces are boring and inefficient. There are plenty of gas fireplace and fireplace insert options, but many are traditional and may not fit with your modern home and décor.

Montigo is one of the first to bring to market a linear designed fireplace, and now offers the largest selection of modern fireplaces demanded by designers, architects and homeowners wanting to create and enhance their modern and contemporary space.

When it comes to choosing a gas fireplace or fireplace insert that can work for you, your lifestyle, and your décor there are a number of factors you’ll need to consider.

• Style
• Quality
• Safety
• Customization
• Technology
• Value

The Montigo gas fireplaces and gas fireplace inserts have decades of manufacturing excellence behind them.  Montigo wraps everything above into the perfect fireplace for your home – customized to fit your style and space.

Unlimited Installation Possibilities

As a homeowner you will appreciate the ability to feature fire in just about any location in your home. With the proprietary power venting system, a Montigo fireplace or insert can be installed anywhere – even 550’ away from the closest venting location!

Compact Installation Parameters

When it comes to installation, Montigo designs and engineers each fireplace to have the most compact installation parameters. This means less confining installation parameters behind the fireplace wall.

For more information on modern fireplaces, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

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On a cool fall or winter’s night, nothing beats cozying up to a warm, glowing fireplace.

The fireside has graced home living spaces for generations, with few alterations to its standard look. But new designs and technologies have emerged in recent years to take these fireplaces and fireplace inserts to the next level.

“While the traditional hearth will be a mainstay for many homes, modern fireplaces with crisp lines and glass frames will continue to rise in popularity with new homes and redesigned rooms,” said David Coulson, of Napoleon Fireplaces. “That being said, we’re seeing several new trends emerge this season that are really changing the way people are thinking about fireplaces.”

Here are five trends in fireplaces and fireplace inserts:

Modern - Look for sleek, modern fireplaces with clean lines. Designs are using more glass and less metal to allow for a better view of the flames.

Gas - More people are turning to gas fireplaces, which start quickly and allow for easier cleanup.

Outdoors - Interest continues in backyard fireplaces, which can give outdoor spaces more functionality, charm and personality.

Fire up - Fireplaces aren’t just for the floor anymore. With new technology, gas units can be placed farther up the wall.

Location - Fireplaces can also be installed in most rooms in the home, including decorative units for the kitchen or bathroom.

For more information on fireplaces and fireplace inserts, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

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It’s that time of year again. Time to start thinking about turning on the heat again, and wondering if it’s time for an eco-upgrade to the whole heating system.

You can make your home heating more eco-friendly and more efficient by getting rid of an energy-wasting fireplace. Fireplace Inserts are designed to be vastly more efficient — 80 or 90 percent efficiency -- versus 10 percent for the old-fashioned hearth. And fireplace inserts are equally as cheerful.

Fireplace Inserts (basically a stove made to fit right inside an existing fireplace) come in a few varieties including natural gas, pellet, and wood.

Wood-burning fireplace inserts are nice because they run on a renewable resource, and one that’s often easy to source locally. Burning sustainably harvested wood is also considered carbon neutral because you’re only releasing the carbon that the tree sequestered in its lifetime; it’s part of the carbon cycle in a way that underground fossil fuels are not. Plus, an EPA-certified wood burning stove or insert is built to burn cleaner and more efficiently, dramatically reducing fine particle emissions and pollution over older models. And of course, wood fires have that ambiance going for them too.

Gas stove inserts are easier to deal with — just flip a switch, no careful fire-tending needed. But natural gas is a fossil fuel, nonrenewable, and increasingly obtained via environmentally dubious fracking.

Wood pellet inserts and stoves burn ultra-compressed wood that might otherwise have been landfilled. Pellets are super-dry, which makes them burn cleaner and more efficiently than wood. Pellet stoves and inserts do require some electricity to run, and they tend to be a bit more expensive up-front, but a pellet stove could be just the ticket for many.

And finally, there’s the electric fireplace insert — a bit like a space heater, really. These don’t produce any smoke or emissions on site, and while they’re not the most efficient way to heat a big home, one might work for a small space like your cabin. I bring this one up specifically because of your zip code: Most of the electricity in Washington comes from clean hydro-power, so you wouldn’t be committing pollution by proxy. The coziness factor of an electric fire is somewhat debatable, true, but its virtues may outweigh its vices in your case.

The best choice will depend on your budget, your house, fuel availability, and other factors. For more information and help deciding which fireplace insert will be the best for your home and lifestyle, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

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Heating your home by burning firewood in a wood stove is a very satisfying practice. Knowing that you are cutting heating bills and participating in the local economy, while using a renewable energy source are a few of the reasons why.

This winter is supposed to be very cold, with lots of snow. If you want a more efficient way to heat your home, look at wood burning fireplace insert. However there are some variables involved in choosing the right wood-burning appliance.

Wood Heat is experiencing a renaissance, thanks to increasing energy costs associated with other forms of heating. Heating with firewood is typically more suited to rural areas than urban ones, but firewood can be delivered or found anywhere. There are many advantages of heating with wood versus other energy sources like oil, electricity and propane in terms of cost and overall efficiency.

Another argument to heating with wood is that it is a green heat, wood is sustainable.   Wood stoves and wood burning fireplace inserts have improved in efficiency in the last few decades. There are other distinct advantages that wood-burning offers over other methods of home heating. First off, dollar-for-dollar it's much cheaper, plus it can be a complete off-grid option, and there is a hands-on allure with using wood for heat, appealing to our sense of self-reliance.

For more information on heating with wood, or on the right fireplace insert for your home, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

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Everyone loves relaxing in front of a wood burning fire when it is cold outside. It is hard to beat that feeling from an open burning wood fireplace. But, most of us are not that fond of the amount of fire wood that it consumes.

So, let’s talk about fireplace inserts. A fireplace insert is inserted directly into your open fireplace instantly making your hearth more attractive and most important, more efficient.

Wood burning fireplace inserts can take your fireplace from negative efficiency, (meaning it is even worse than not being efficient, you actually lose money when burning it) to over 75% efficient. Obviously, that means that you can save money when using a wood burning fireplace insert.

Of course, with an insert you will be viewing the fire behind the ceramic glass front; but the fire may last up to eight hours on a single charge of wood. And the frame around the fireplace insert is very attractive and often adds ambiance to a room even when the fire is not lit.

Fireplace Inserts are available in many styles and sizes. Want to learn more? Contact West Sport in Sudbury.

Fall is around the corner and winter is right behind. Have you considered a better way to heat your home this winter? What about holiday shopping, have you started?  You know that once school starts, time just begins to slip away. This Saturday, September 12th may be the perfect opportunity to get back some of that time.

West Sport in Sudbury is hosting a “Sidewalk Sale” with greatly reduced prices on:

• Gas and Charcoal Grills
• Table Top Grills
• Grilling Accessories
• Fireplace Accessories
• Chimney Liners and Venting Systems
• Comfort Furnace (Infrared Small Space Heater)
• Fire Pits
• and much more!

Along with the other September Specials on Hearthstone wood burning fireplace inserts as well as specials on glass fireplace doors and gas log sets, you could walk away with a better, more attractive heating solution for your home this winter, as well as holiday gifts!

For more information, contact West Sport, or come by on Saturday, September 13th all day.

A wood burning fireplace insert is an easy, convenient way to heat your home and the perfect way to make your open fireplace more beautiful. Wood burning fireplace inserts sit inside the open fireplace and are surrounded by steel or cast iron with an insulated glass window. This prevents the heat from going up the chimney and instead sends the heat into your home. Many wood burning fireplace inserts have a blower that helps circulate the hot air for more efficient heating.

One of the biggest benefits to adding wood burning fireplace inserts is that they’re much more energy efficient than an open fireplace. In fact, they average around 80% efficiency, that is far more efficient than your existing heating system. They are very attractive because it is a natural wood fire with an attractive surround. In smaller homes, wood burning fireplace inserts can be used as the only heat source. In every home, they become the focal point of your room.

Right now, at West Sport in Sudbury, Hearthstone wood burning fireplace inserts are on sale. Get $600 off when you purchase the chimney liner too.

Clydesdale Wood Burning Fireplace Inserts feature cost saving benefits. They are attractive, can supplement your home heating or  can be used to heat the room you use most; plus they have the benefit of replacing an old drafty masonry fireplace.

Clydesdale Wood Burning Fireplace Insert

• Heats up to: 2,000 sq. ft.
• Burns Up to 10 hours
• Heats for Up to 12 hours
• Size: 60,000 BTU's
• Efficiency: 79% (LHV)

For more information on this wood fireplace insert sale, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

Winter home heating forecast: 'It's going to be a very expensive winter'

Enjoying the final stretch of summer, because unfortunately ‘they’ say we can look forward to a pricey winter for home heating costs.

"It's going to be a very expensive winter," predicted Secretary of Environment and Energy Affairs Maeve Vallely Bartlett. "We are projecting that due to our constrained natural gas supply, that prices in New England will go up for the winter."

High energy costs have been seen as one of the drags on the Massachusetts economy. Ratepayers in the state spend nearly double what people in Idaho pay for natural gas.

Bartlett said she would have a more precise idea of how much prices will increase by around November, and said part of the cost is a result of a prolonged period of frigid temperatures last winter that kept furnaces blasting.

"With the extreme winter last year, people will see those costs reflected this year, and then if we continue to have extreme winters and a constrained energy supply, those costs will continue to go up."

Meanwhile, as coal and nuclear power plants around the region have planned closures, there is a natural gas plant being developed in Salem, which would add further demand on the state's current system of pipes.

The state has alternative means to receive natural gas in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, which arrives by tanker ships.

"We believe that we may get increased shipments of LNG, which is good for reliability, but will be costly."

If you are looking for a less expensive and more attractive way to heat your home this winter, come in to West Sport and take a look at our specials on wood burning fireplace inserts and wood burning stoves.

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Tax free weekend in Massachusetts is one week away. August 16-17 we can forget about paying 6.25% in sales taxes on almost all purchases. If you have started thinking about heating your home this winter, consider a fireplace insert. If you haven’t starting thinking about it, maybe now is the time! West Sport in Sudbury is giving you $600 off and NO TAX.  Total savings of $875 on all HearthStone Clydesdale Wood Burning Fireplace Inserts including the Chimney Liner System.

Do you have vacation plans or other purchases you need to make? No Problem. Come in this week, and we’ll process your order next week so you can take advantage of the savings.  Avoid the wait and start shopping for fireplace inserts now.

Come on in to West Sport in Sudbury and take a look. In fact, we are also offering  $300 off all HearthStone gas and wood burning stoves. With no tax that is a savings of at least $450. We are also offering a savings on Gas Logs and Custom Glass Fireplace Doors. We have whatever you need to heat your home with beauty this winter.

Have you wanted to make your home more attractive and more efficient?  Let us show you your options in new fireplace inserts and wood burning stoves for your existing fireplace. Fireplace inserts and stoves make heating with wood easy and beautiful.

Avoid the tax free holiday rush, and come on it to look at our spectacular inventory now. Take advantage of the Massachusetts tax free holiday. Contact West Sport for more information.