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Gas Log s and Custom Fireplace Doors: Beautiful and Functional –Boston, Sudbury, Natick

Joseph Coupal - Friday, October 24, 2014

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.

Modern Fireplace and Fireplace Insert Designs: Montigo – Boston, Natick, Sudbury

Joseph Coupal - Friday, October 17, 2014

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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Trends in Fireplaces and Fireplace Inserts – Boston, Natick, Sudbury

Joseph Coupal - Friday, October 10, 2014

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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Fireplace Inserts are Greener, Prettier and More Efficient – Sudbury, Boston, Natick

Joseph Coupal - Thursday, October 02, 2014

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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