I converted a wood burning fireplace to gas logs. My question is what is
more efficient? Keep the glass doors closed or open? The conversion
doesn't have a blower.
I always thought if you have the doors open, it draws heat from the furnace
up the flue. The gas fireplace doesn't heat the house, just the living
room, so the furnace does run while the fireplace is going. But, it doesn't
really throw a lot of heat out with the glass doors closed.
Depending on the doors you may not have a choice.
Many of the ones I have seen say to leave the glass doors open while there
is a fire going. That is for WOOD. You may need to check for the gas
doors. I have not looked at any for gas logs.
Fire places are not a good way to heat a house if you have another source of
heat going. As you said, with the doors open, most of the other heat of the
house goes up the chimley.
Hmmm,
Our 3 FPs are all direct venting type. Glass door is semi-fixed(no
hinges)) If I want tro open it for cleaning, etc. I have to remove a few
screws. It is mounted air tight with gaskets all around. don't YOU have
VS blower with yours? It blows heat into room. It is thermostat
controlled, I can adjust blower speed with a knob.
That sounds like what we did on the last home that we built. Gas fired,
direct vented, semi-permanent glass (can be removed for cleaning), flip
a switch on the wall to light it, blower with a rotary knob on the wall
to control the speed. I suspect that now you can get remotes rather than
have controls on the wall but it is hard to misplace a wall. :-)
Don
"Joe J" wrote in message
I converted a wood burning fireplace to gas logs. My question is what is
more efficient? Keep the glass doors closed or open? The conversion
doesn't have a blower.
I always thought if you have the doors open, it draws heat from the furnace
up the flue. The gas fireplace doesn't heat the house, just the living
room, so the furnace does run while the fireplace is going. But, it doesn't
really throw a lot of heat out with the glass doors closed.
I guess I wasn't clear. This isn't an insert that went in. The original
wood burning fireplace had a gas start feature to light the wood logs. Used
that gas line to now have the gas logs. No blowers, no fixed glass panes
and no switch to turn it on. Open the valve & manually light it. The
fireplace has two glass doors that open and close and a standard open/close
flue that goes up the chimney.
Hi,
Then you did not increase efficiency of the FP. just made it convenient
'coz no meed to mess with ashes and dust. You should've done it right
first and forget by installing direct vent insert and plug the chimney.
Not only heat goes up the chimney, it draws fresh air from indoor too.
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