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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:33 AM
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Who here has a fireplace insert? how do you like it?
What kind do you have?
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:34 AM
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1. wood.
oak, mainly.

that's my insert.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:43 AM
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2. It sucks.
Beware of any insert that doesn't have ample ventilation from BENEATH the level of the wood.

It will smoke into the room for a while, then go out. :grr:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:45 AM
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3. i had one 15 years ago in NoCal
it worked great! Ihave no idea what kind it was, it didn't have forced air but it kept my 900 SF bungalow toasty
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:48 AM
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5. a Quiet fan in them is the key, otherwise they dont heat well, we had one we put a regular fan on
Edited on Tue Jan-29-08 11:53 AM by sam sarrha
one side so it blew air around it and out the other side, be sure to check your chimney, keep it clean.. we had a brush.. it was our only heat in Bellingham WA
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:45 AM
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4. I'm thinking about getting a pellet stove insert...n/t
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:09 PM
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6. I had one for a lot of years and we loved it
we had an inexhaustible supply of oak so we were able to heat fairly cheap with it but the Air Quality Police sorta put the kibosh on wood fires in our area so we converted about five years ago to a pellet stove.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:14 PM
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7. Our house came with one
But we've never used it, because before we fired it up, we had the chimney inspected. Good thing we did; there had been a fire at one time and it was cracked.

So I keep wondering if anyone would be interested in *professionally* removing our insert. I'd like to just stick one of those fake electric ones in there and not ever worry about it.
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:17 PM
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8. We have an older Fisher with a fan...
And it works well.
We built up the hearth around it as to hold more of the heat. I wouldnt use one that didnt have a fan though as they circulate very little air as opposed to a free-standing woodstove. Ours heats a 1300 square foot home.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:27 PM
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9. Years ago my parents had one in their 3-BR, 2.5-BA trilevel in
Colorado Springs and they LOVED it. It would basically heat the whole house for them. It did have a fan to distribute the heat out from behind the thing.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:52 PM
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10. We have a free standing stove
With a 16 foot flue. A ceiling fan pushes the hot air down. We burn fir and alder. When we run the stove, the heat isn't needed.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 06:38 PM
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11. I have a recirculating fireplace, not actually an insert.
It works great. It heats the entire level of my house.

In fact, if I put a fan in the hallway of my upper level, it heats the entire house, my radon contaminated office excluded.
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