A fireplace is an enjoyable way to heat your home, but it's also not a very effective one if you are not using a fireplace heat exchanger. Most people that use a fireplace to heat their homes don't even realize that it is not heating their home efficiently. Of course, by improving the performance of your fireplace, you will also be saving on the cost of heating your home.
When you use a fireplace to heat your home, the fire must conduct air in order to keep burning. The air being drawn into the fire is the warm air from your home, and that air is being replaced by cold air from outside your home. In essence, your are creating a air current cycle that brings cold air into your home and pushing fire heated air out through your chimney.
Of course, there are dangers involved in building a fire inside your home, so you will want to follow all necessary safety precautions when using your fireplace. However, if you really want to keep your home warm in winter, watching your heat go out the chimney and get replaced by cold, outside air is not the best way to do it. In fact, very many people even wonder how it is that others are able to keep their homes nice and warm with their fireplace.
The answer is to use a fireplace heat exchanger. By using a fireplace heat exchanger, you will be able to stop using the warm air in your home to fuel the fire and start having the fire warm the air in your home. These devices force air, heated by your fireplace, directly back in the the room that the fireplace is in. Instead of all that hot air escaping, it is pushed right back into your home, where you really want it.
In most cases, you will need to spend about 500 dollars to get a fireplace heat exchanger.While that is a big expense, so is the firewood you are burning to heat the sky above your chimney. By making your fireplace able to heat your home more efficiently, you are saving a bundle of money in the long run.
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