The temperatures have surely dropped, so now is the perfect time to add a wood burning fireplace insert to your home. In fact, because the weather has been so mild so far, insert installation has been easy. This means you don’t have to wait long at all to start enjoying your new insert this winter.

For a more beautiful home and a more efficient fireplace in 2016, wood burning fireplace inserts are a fast and easy way to upgrade and change the look and feel of your living space. They heat your home and make it more attractive while reducing your heating costs.

Wood fireplace inserts are a perfect solution for changing the style of your living room and for benefiting from the heat of a beautiful and effective wood fire. Hearthstone wood burning fireplace inserts supplement your home heating, add a beautiful focal point to your room, and enhance the ambiance and beauty of your home, while increasing the value of your home at the same time.

Hearthstone wood burning fireplace inserts bring heating power and beauty to your home. It warms up to 2000 square feet of space and will burn safely for 10 hours. Now you can come home to a beautiful fire and a warm home every night. Add flair and style to your living room with this beautiful fireplace insert which is available in three different finishes so you can be sure to match your décor.

Come see fireplace inserts burning at West Sport in Sudbury.  Fireplace inserts are sought after as one of the most productive, efficient and beautiful heat sources for any home.

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If you have an old masonry fireplace in your home, you can make it more beautiful and make your home warmer by adding wood burning fireplace insert. Fireplace inserts help increase the efficiency of your fireplace and create a warm environment with a whole new look and feel. There are plenty of older homes around Sudbury, Wayland and Concord. If you live in an older or antique home which is heated with oil and has an open fireplace, a wood burning fireplace insert will greatly reduce your heating bills and make your home more efficient all while making your living space more attractive too.

Wood burning fireplace inserts work the same way that wood burning stoves do. They force the heated air into your home instead of up the chimney. This makes heating your home, easier, less expensive and more efficient. But fireplace inserts are gorgeous too, so they create a beautiful focal point in any room to complement the décor.

Wood burning fireplace inserts allow the fire to burn hotter than in an open fireplace. This creates the ideal temperature inside your home. Most inserts have blowers that help circulate the heat throughout your living space.

This mild winter can’t last much longer, this is a great time to check out fireplace inserts.

For more information, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

At this time of year, fireplaces are the focal point of many family gatherings, romantic interludes and relaxing spaces. Still, the typical open fireplace is not the most efficient or environmentally sensitive heating source.

To help you choose the most eco-friendly fireplace options, fireplace regulators and industry representatives have some ideas. Fireplace inserts are built into the existing hearth or stoves are free-standing. These tend to produce less pollution than standard fireplaces.

For starters, decide whether you are interested in a fireplace primarily for heating throughout the winter or for decorative purposes with a few fires a year.

The traditional open wood-burning fireplace is not a heating device like is used to be.

A decorative fireplace with gas logs and glass fireplace captures the look and feel of a fire with gas logs that look just like real wood and have the appearance of a wood burning fire. While relatively inexpensive, they don’t tend to provide as much warmth as a fireplace insert or free-standing stove.

For more serious heat consider fireplace inserts or stoves that use wood or gas. These generally have a higher price tag and require more maintenance, but you get more heat, more versatility and lots of decorative options.

Here are a few options when seeking an eco-friendly fireplace or appliance for aesthetics rather than efficiency:

Gas logs: Gas logs can be retrofitted in an existing fireplace as an alternative to wood.

Although gas logs burn fossil fuels, either natural gas or LP, they still have low emissions.

Gas logs can be vented or vent-free. Vented logs, which operate with an open chimney flue or damper, simulate a wood-burning flame. Vent-free logs won’t give you the roaring fire effect, but provide a little more heat and may have a thermostat to maintain room temperature.

Pellet stoves: Resembling rabbit food, these pellets are 3/8 of an inch to 1 inch.

The pellets are made from compressed sawdust, wood chips, bark, agricultural waste and other organic materials.

They are much more convenient to operate and have much higher combustion and heating efficiency than ordinary wood stoves or fireplaces. As a result, pellet stoves produce very little air pollution and are considered the cleanest of the solid fuel-burning residential heating appliances.

Gas stoves and gas inserts: Like with gas logs, these stoves are designed to burn either natural gas or LP. However, gas stoves are self-contained units, while gas logs are meant to be used in an existing fireplace.

Gas stoves emit very little pollution, require little maintenance and can be installed almost anywhere in the home. Today’s gas stoves can be vented through an existing chimney or direct vented through the wall behind the stove.

Gas stoves are among the cleanest and cheapest fuel options. Although they still burn fossil fuels, they produce lower emissions than wood or other alternatives.

Wood-burning stoves and inserts: Most firewood grows locally, is abundant, inexpensive and comes from harvesting dead trees. Unlike with fossil fuels, no net carbon is released into the environment when wood is burned because the same gases are given off when the tree decomposes.

Wood stoves are capable of heating an entire house, as long as it’s well constructed with enough insulation. The drawback to burning wood is you have to empty the ashes more often and to split, stock, dry and season the wood.

For more information on the right option for your home and your lifestyle, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

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