How to make you fireplace efficient?
One of the main disadvantages of having a fireplace is its inefficiency. The core purpose of the fireplace is to warm and indeed, it does warm your room when burning. But when you’re not using your fireplace there is a convention between inside and outer air which is extremely wasteful.
It happens because of a fireplace damper, which is created to block said convention, but usually don’t do the trick because it’s made of metal.
Thereby the device which is designed to heat the house is costing you hundreds of energy cost dollars.
There are several ways of increasing your fireplace efficiency – and reducing the energy costs caused by it.
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For starters, you can replace fabricated damper with top sealed damper. It works as a barrier between conditioned air and outside air. It works regardless of season, whether you’re cooling or heating your house.
There is also a matter of fireback which can be placed at the back of the fireplace in order to protect the back surface from fire damage. The fireback is good for fireplace efficiency because it absorbs the fire heat and radiates heat back into the house.
A fireplace heater is very efficient because it can pull air from your room, circulate it through and then blow the warmed air back.
Draft eliminator is a draft stopper which is cheaper and tighter than a throat damper. This device is used to reduce heat loss when you’re not using your fireplace.
Fireplace efficiency can be achieved by investing into the fireplace glass doors. Glass doors provide safety and economy of energy by reducing the space your furnace need to heat.
These additions to your fireplace will, of course, cost you money. But in the end they will save hundreds of dollars every year and make you fireplace far more economically and practically efficient than it was before modernization.
