Fireplaces have provided comfort and warmth to families throughout centuries and are known to create the focal point in a room. With the steady flames of the burning wood, people are able to gather around, relax, and have themselves enjoy the warm environment during the cold season as they discuss about how the day activities were. Use of firescreens or doors has also been there for a long time. Today, fireplace covers are not only a big trend in the fireplaces but also part of the visual appeal designs.
Nowadays, fireplaces have been designed in a modern setting environment. They are not only used for warming up the home but also creating a visual appeal. To achieve this goal, the fires are often decked out with use of decorative parts such as the mantles in order to make the focal point of the house.
The fireplace is today pampered with different accessories all in the name of making it look appealing to the eye. People will find it very fulfilling and satisfying to congregate around fireplaces in the evenings and enjoy the heat while also discussing aspects of the day activities. It is important to note that much of the safety aspects of fireplaces have been pinned on chimneys.
People talk about the creosote, cracked flues, and deteriorating mortars are possible causes of fires in houses. This perhaps may be true but there is still a subject that presents safety issues in homes that might not have been much emphasized. This is the open fires that burn in the fireplaces.
But the less obvious risks of heating homes using fireplaces are ignored though they still have the potentials of sneaking up on the area and causing very huge devastation. The covers or doors used in the fireplaces help reduce the sparks that may be released from the burning wood. They also help in reducing the tumbling of logs that may occur when you burn wood.
In winter season, you usually pay to have the home heated up in various ways such as use of furnace, heaters, wall mounted fires, or the fireplaces. On the other hand, in summer, you pay for the home to be cooled through the air conditioning systems and the venting. Much of the safety issues associated with fireplaces have always pointed out on the fires that arise inside the chimneys.
Many people lose their properties and others die from the fires that are triggered by the burning creosote in chimneys. When creosote forms inside chimneys, embers or sparks of fire may come from the burning wood and travel up the draft to ignite the flammable creosote. This triggers the devastating fires witnessed in many homes from chimneys.
However, despite the focus on chimney fires, there are other risks that may be presented by having open fires. The sparks released from the woods in open fires could spread or fly inside a house and land on clothes, curtains, furniture, and others things thus causing damage on them. In addition to the safety benefits presented by use of fireplace doors or screen, there is also the aspect of energy efficiency.
Nowadays, fireplaces have been designed in a modern setting environment. They are not only used for warming up the home but also creating a visual appeal. To achieve this goal, the fires are often decked out with use of decorative parts such as the mantles in order to make the focal point of the house.
The fireplace is today pampered with different accessories all in the name of making it look appealing to the eye. People will find it very fulfilling and satisfying to congregate around fireplaces in the evenings and enjoy the heat while also discussing aspects of the day activities. It is important to note that much of the safety aspects of fireplaces have been pinned on chimneys.
People talk about the creosote, cracked flues, and deteriorating mortars are possible causes of fires in houses. This perhaps may be true but there is still a subject that presents safety issues in homes that might not have been much emphasized. This is the open fires that burn in the fireplaces.
But the less obvious risks of heating homes using fireplaces are ignored though they still have the potentials of sneaking up on the area and causing very huge devastation. The covers or doors used in the fireplaces help reduce the sparks that may be released from the burning wood. They also help in reducing the tumbling of logs that may occur when you burn wood.
In winter season, you usually pay to have the home heated up in various ways such as use of furnace, heaters, wall mounted fires, or the fireplaces. On the other hand, in summer, you pay for the home to be cooled through the air conditioning systems and the venting. Much of the safety issues associated with fireplaces have always pointed out on the fires that arise inside the chimneys.
Many people lose their properties and others die from the fires that are triggered by the burning creosote in chimneys. When creosote forms inside chimneys, embers or sparks of fire may come from the burning wood and travel up the draft to ignite the flammable creosote. This triggers the devastating fires witnessed in many homes from chimneys.
However, despite the focus on chimney fires, there are other risks that may be presented by having open fires. The sparks released from the woods in open fires could spread or fly inside a house and land on clothes, curtains, furniture, and others things thus causing damage on them. In addition to the safety benefits presented by use of fireplace doors or screen, there is also the aspect of energy efficiency.
No comments:
Post a Comment