| There are a number of reasons why someone | | | | on a regular basis in order to avoid fires. Having a |
| might want to add an electric fireplace insert to | | | | wood pile near your home isn't an ideal situation, |
| their existing fireplace. It might be that your | | | | either. If you stack it next to the house, it can |
| fireplace has seen better days, and you don't feel | | | | rot out the boards on the house. If you stack it |
| comfortable using it as a wood burner any longer. | | | | farther away, you'll have a long walk in order to |
| Maybe you've always had a gas burner, but | | | | replenish your in-house supply. |
| you've decided to change to clean, electrical heat. | | | | With an electric fireplace insert, you'll be able to |
| Whatever your reason might be, you can buy | | | | curl up in front of a blazing fire without going to all |
| dozens of different styles of inserts that will not | | | | the hassle involved with wood. You may have |
| only look lovely in your home, but which will also | | | | seen an electric fireplace many years ago and not |
| become focal points for the rooms you have | | | | been impressed with the fake-looking fire it |
| them in. | | | | contained. That was then and this is now, though, |
| About 20 years ago my family purchased a home | | | | because electric fireplaces have gone through a |
| with a lovely gas fireplace in the living room. The | | | | great deal of technological change since they |
| only problem was that when we turned it on, the | | | | were first invented. Modern electric fireplace |
| room became uncomfortably warm, and there | | | | inserts produce such real-looking fires that you |
| was no way to turn it down. We ended up | | | | may not even be able to tell which fireplaces in a |
| removing the fireplace altogether, because it was | | | | store are burning wood and which are running on |
| just taking up space. How I wish we could have | | | | electricity. |
| had an electric fireplace insert we could have used | | | | There's nothing to installing an electric insert in |
| so as to still be able to enjoy that fireplace. | | | | your fireplace, because it's as simple as plugging in |
| It might just be that you're looking for the | | | | your TV. There are no fumes and no need of |
| ambiance of a nice fire without the work of a | | | | venting. You'll even be able to run this fireplace |
| woodburner. After all, when you burn wood, you | | | | year round if you like, because you can turn the |
| have to buy it or haul it and chop it before you'll | | | | heater on and off at will. They make great |
| ever be able to use it for a fire. In addition, wood | | | | options for sun rooms, too, as many of them |
| fires expel certain amounts of smoke and other | | | | have no source of heat. All-in-all, an electric |
| contaminants into the air in your home, and you | | | | fireplace insert will make a great addition to your |
| have to clean the creosote out of the chimney | | | | house that the whole family will enjoy. |