| Over the past few years, a very popular | | | | efficiency. Just about all the pellet or wood burning |
| alternative to using wood as the fuel for wood | | | | stoves made today are able to be vented |
| burning stoves has changed to pellets. Pellet | | | | through the side of the house. This has made it |
| stoves can be found in many different styles and | | | | possible to put them almost anywhere around the |
| shapes, so they're easy to coordinate with any | | | | home. |
| rooms' decor. | | | | The wood pellets are a combination of |
| Fireplaces are being built into many news homes | | | | compressed wood products that burn longer and |
| today as their popularity increases. Whether they | | | | hotter, so you're not adding more fuel every |
| are wood burning, gas, or electric, they have | | | | twenty minutes. They are very energy efficient |
| become very in demand new home option. | | | | with built in heat exchangers that allow for |
| However, if you're looking to add another | | | | maximum warmth. Some of these can produce |
| secondary heat source to part of your home, | | | | upwards of 70,000 BTUs, so they heat a lot of |
| you can't always just run out and buy a traditional | | | | square footage |
| fireplace. That's where a wood or pellet burning | | | | No matter what type of fireplace or pellet burning |
| stove comes in. | | | | stove you install, be sure to follow all the |
| The past versions of stoves didn't come with an | | | | manufacturers instructions. When venting a pellet |
| internal firebox, so they were very dangerous | | | | stove or gas fireplace out the side, be sure that it |
| because of the temperatures they reached. With | | | | runs straight and level. If you vent it with even a |
| today's versions, they are built with a firebox, | | | | slight downward slope, the fire will eventually run |
| which not only makes them safer, but also | | | | out of its oxygen source, and go out. |
| dramatically increases their heating ability and | | | | |