Posted by New Handle Again on November 08, 2008 at 17:53:03 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: OT: Fireplaces posted by Casey in Ky on November 08, 2008 at 15:14:00:
I would be absolutely certain that the chimneys are clear before I ever struck a match. They could be creasoted up or have bird nests in them. A house filled with smoke is no fun and may cause a big repair bill. And especially with a repo, you don't know how well things were taken care of.
My family's experience with using a fireplace for heat was not very good until we got tight fitting glass doors to control the flow of air out of the house. With a nice fire going, it felt great in that room, but you could feel the draft coming in around the back door, and the other rooms were cold. And when the fire burned down, you still had to leave the damper open to avoid the CO still coming from the coals. A lot of warmed air went up the chimney. When we got the glass doors installed, the heating effectiveness of the fireplace went up a whole bunch.
However I think you would find that the efficiency of most any wood stove is many times as good as a fireplace.
The other part of the equation is what it costs to get your wood. If you have trees on your property and it only costs the expense of cutting and splitting the wood, it is one thing. If you are paying $250 a cord to have someone else cut the wood and dump it in your driveway, it is something very different. Wood heating is also fairly labor intensive, as you have to keep feeding a fire and carrying in wood, and wood heating is very messy, both from junk on the wood and from having to deal with the ashes.
Wood heat works when the power doesn't, so it is great for emergency heating. But if you have a heat pump system, I am guessing that using a fireplace for auxiliary heating will end up costing you more than if you just left the dampers closed and ran the heat pump. Do you really want to mess with it? Good luck!
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