01-18-2016, 03:41 PM
(01-18-2016, 12:53 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: I've looked into installing a blower on the fireplace. I should probably get that done sometime. Thanks for the tips!
It is very messy to try and heat with wood. You have to have a place to stack the wood, and you have to haul ashes out of the house.
If you have access to free wood you can cut yourself then it might be worth it, but it will not be that cheap to just add a blower to your fireplace. Also do you have a way to open and close the flu? Do you have a masonry (brick) chimney or just a metal pipe. You may need a masonry chimney if you are going to have big hot fires.
The house that I just moved out of had a "decorative" fireplace and I just had it completely removed. I built bookshelves into the space where the fireplace was and made a closet out of the space behind it. I had this done when a leak developed in my roof around the "chimney" on my roof. It was just a wooden box with a metal pipe coming out of it. I had them tear off the box and shingle over it.
