| If you have a built-in fireplace in your home but | | | | While you should have a carbon monoxide |
| have decided that you want to increase its | | | | detector or two in your home anyway, it's |
| heating efficiency with a fireplace insert pellet | | | | especially important to install them when you |
| stove, you're probably making a good choice. | | | | have pellet-burning stoves. When you have a |
| These stoves can give you a cheap, clean, and | | | | pellet-burning stove – whether it is a fireplace |
| easy way to heat your entire home – or at | | | | insert pellet stove or another type of pellet stove |
| least the areas connected to the room where the | | | | – you should plug a carbon monoxide detector |
| fireplace stands – and they can look very | | | | within ten feet of the stove. |
| nice, too. However, be sure that you buy a pellet | | | | Finally, be sure that your fireplace insert pellet |
| stove with plenty of safety features, including a | | | | stove is properly ventilated. You can probably use |
| fire-resistant surface on which to place it, carbon | | | | the chimney of the original fireplace, but you will |
| monoxide detectors, and proper ventilation. | | | | have to modify it on some levels, being sure to |
| If you buy a fireplace insert pellet stove, you | | | | keep it clean and free from obstructions. Pellet |
| probably won't need a fire-resistant mat for your | | | | stoves take less ventilation than wood-burning |
| stove, especially if you already have a hearth | | | | stoves, and they burn more cleanly than other |
| around the stove. Pellet stoves that are more like | | | | types of stoves. However, you'll need to regularly |
| traditional wood-burning stoves, on the other | | | | service your pellet stove's ventilation system so |
| hand, will take either tiled, fire-proof platforms or | | | | that it stays safe and efficient. |
| special fire-resistant mats that will keep the stove | | | | Some pellet stoves can come with added safety |
| from catching any flammable materials on fire. | | | | features, such as a temperature switch that will |
| You can get these mats in many different colors, | | | | turn them off and on at certain times during the |
| and you should always check to see if your stove | | | | day or when the temperature gets too high. |
| requires something like this. | | | | When you look at these pellet-burning stoves, be |
| Although pellet-burning stoves are very safe and | | | | sure that you find one with all the requisite safety |
| clean-burning, they still burn organic materials, | | | | features so that you can easily heat your home |
| which can give off carbon monoxide sometimes. | | | | in a safe way. |