It s hard to beat a crackling wood fire on a chilly night.
Carpet up to gas fireplace.
Pleasant hearth vent free fireplace systems are the ideal choice to bring style and warmth to your home.
Gas fireplaces are considered gas appliances not true fireplaces.
They just want to sell you something that s more expensive and inefficient.
Vent free is rated as a decorative supplemental gas heating appliance.
However you may just want a hearth for looks here is a tile fireplace with simple tiles on the floor.
With up to 27 500 btu s this state of the art vent with up to 27 500 btu s this state of the art vent free technology does not require a flue or chimney.
These places are where heat is gathered by your fan system and blown out into the room.
As such they are not regulated by the same safety codes as wood burning fireplaces and each model has its own requirements.
Despite what some dealers and websites will tell you.
An insert is an appliance that can only go into an existing code c.
If your floors are in danger it is probably because of the heat the fan system produces.
Choosing a gas fireplace.
A gas fireplace produces a large amount of heat but most of it is focused either upward through vents or downward into the floor beneath the fireplace.
Most of these gas fireplaces today are considered zero clearance which means you can run carpet right up to them without the necessity of a hearth or tiles on the floor.
Gas fireplaces include direct vent units that vent combustion gasses directly outside vent free units that use the indoor air to fuel the combustion process and vent safely into the room and units that replace existing masonry fireplace openings called fireplace inserts.
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The dept of energy rates a vented log set or fireplace as decorative gas appliance.
Not only does gas burn much cleaner making it a better choice for the environment but there are no messy logs to carry through the house or ashes to clean out.
Some gas fireplaces are built with zero clearance fireboxes meaning you can put combustible materials right up to the sides front and bottom.
Or are you asking if the bottom edge of the insert can be flush at the same level as the surrounding floor.
Gas fireplaces can have the look and feel of a real wood fire without.
But modern gas fireplace come pretty close and without the drawbacks of wood.