Natural Gas/propane fireplace inserts.

I'm looking for thoughts on the installation of these fireplace natural gas/propane inserts. We are unable to burn wood in our fireplace for health reasons and would like to install one of these inserts for heating and ambiance. Are they worthwhile?

tM

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themeanies
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Hi, Inserts is good. Heats room well not like wood burning FP. Clean as well. All my FPs are gas burning at home at cottage, at my kid's condo downtown. Pollutes less too compared to wood burning. Tony

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Tony Hwang

Get one with ceramic glass. More expensive than tempered glass but well worth it. Some of the units with ceramic glass are as efficient as a good gas furnace. We have a large Heat n' Glo and love it. Used to have gas logs. They ate gas, were pretty to look at but overall were worthless. Highly recommend an efficient insert.

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Art

"Art" wrote

The newer 'ventless' gas logs do very well. With the unit turned up full blast, it will run you out of my 2800 sqft house in less than 15 minutes. Plus, they aren't as ugly as they used to be either....

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Red Neckerson

How do these 'Vent less' fireplaces work. Don't you need some sort of exhaust?

tM

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themeanies

The combustion is considered clean enough that they ven directly into the house. They usually have O2 and CO detectors built in to help keep them safe.

The good thing about these is that all heat produced goes directly to the house. Bad (possibly) thing is that the combustion gasses include alot of water, so some people claim to have humidity/condensation problems. Often in winter, humidity is down anyway... so the added moisture might be helpful.

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Philip Lewis

I would never go ventless. If it is not allowed in a bedroom by code, it is not allowed in my house... period.

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Art

Ours looks nice, but doesn't heat worth a darn. Heat goes up the chimney, but nothing radiates out to our family room.

In previous houses, the installed gas fireplaces gave out lots of heat, but they had a firebox and vents.

If anyone knows whether just changing the type of logs we have would make a difference, please let me know.

-Pat

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Pat Coghlan

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