Is A Wood Stove Insert Right For Your Fireplace?
Wood stove inserts are an addition to regular wood burning stoves. They fit into almost all of the insides of a regular, ‘open’ fireplace. The traditional design of a wood stove insert is that it is comprised of an outer shell that allows you to see the fire and logs, and an inner wall which allows the hot air to pass through, making the system closed and efficient.
The glass doors that wood stove inserts are usually equipped with give you the advantage of being able to insert wood easily. Of course, they also allow you to see and enjoy the sight of the fire when you’re sitting at your fireplace. By turning the heating system into a closed system, a wood stove insert makes the heating process much more efficient. It preserves more of the escaping heat that would normally be lost by a regular ‘open’ fireplace.
If you use a wood stove for heating, a wood stove insert will save you a lot of money and give you more heat by being more efficient. The insert will also spread the heat to a much wider area. Installing a wood stove insert makes you wood stove cleaner and easier to manage than a regular fireplace.
Heat loss is diminished to a great extent by reducing the heat that is normally lost through the outside fireplace walls. The wood stove insert centers heat inside the stove, thereby making the burning process of the wood stove much more efficient by warming up the area intended to be heated. Usually, a wood stove insert will have a small, quiet electric fan to make sure that the hot air is circulated into the surrounding area.
Having a glass door in front of your fireplace eliminates feelings of draft you may experience when having an open fireplace. And by having a glass door, ashes and smoke are always kept inside the stove. They will never mess up your living room.
Another advantage of a wood stove insert is the fact that is makes the cleaning part of a wood stove easier. A wood stove insert has a flat bottom, making it easier to scoop op ashes that stay after the fire. A wood stove insert provides a whole array of benefits, and most are also attractively designed these days.
