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<P>Everyone loves a fireplace. A fireplace can add to the value of your home. The perfect living room is a couch, recliner and fireplace. If you have a fireplace in your bedroom, you are extra special. It’s hard to believe that a fireplace can actually make your room colder.</P><P>When a fireplace is burning, it radiates warmth into the air around it. But it also creates a current so that the warm air is pulled out of the room and up the chimney. So basically warm air is escaping and your fireplace has to work even harder to warm your room. The damper on the chimney is supposed to keep the air from coming in or escaping from the house. But most are not constructed very well and the seal around the edges of the damper still allows air to escape.</P><P>There are some things you can do to fix this problem. You can get a new damper that you install at the tope of your chimney. This damper acts like a storm door and has a seal so that the air cannot sneak around it. You can get such a product online and you can install it yourself if you’re comfortable going on top of your roof.</P><P>Another option you have is to change your wood burning fireplace into a gas fireplace. You can get a gas fireplace insert which can look just like a regular wood burning fireplace. The logs in these 12 volt heaters look like they are truly burning. Depending on your home construction and budget, you have several options on how to install and vent the fireplace. Most gas fireplaces use propane or natural gas sources. Many homeowners go with this type of change because they get tired of having to keep cut wood around and disposing of the ashes. A gas fireplace eliminates that need.</P><P>You can also replace your fireplace with an electric heater. There are portable electric 12 volt heaters that look just like fireplaces. You can get an electric fireplace heater that has a fan which can very efficiently heat a whole room quickly. Electric 12 volt heaters are very efficient in the way that they heat a room. 100% of the electricity that is used is turned into heat and put back out into the room.</P><P>Another inconvenience is that the fireplace is usually in the room with the thermostat. The room with the fireplace becomes very warm and the thermostat turns off the heat. This makes rooms in the rest of the home cooler because the fireplace is not heating them. You may want to get a portable space heater of some of the other rooms in your house.<BR /></P>

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