Glass Fireplace Doors

Great enjoyment can come from entertaining your friends and family during the wintertime festivities of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's in front of your fireplace. These are all great times to light the fireplace when entertaining during the cold winter season. However, if you add glass doors to your fireplace the look will improve and the fireplace will be safer for your family and guests. Glass fireplace doors make it possible for you to stand relatively close to your fireplace without worrying about super hot embers flying on to your clothing or skin causing terrible burns and burn marks on your floor or carpets. Simply put, you can enjoy the warmth of the fire while being protected by glass fireplace doors. Fireplaces are very inefficient by their design but by installing glass doors you can increase that efficiency by at least 80%. Without glass doors installed the house heat simply gets drawn up the chimney. Installing glass fireplace doors is an easy DIY project for most homeowners.

Glass fireplace doors will also increase the energy efficiency of the wood burning fireplace by not needing to burn as much wood. This will help the environment and save you money. The glass doors acts as a barrier separating your home from your chimney, creating a seal that keeps the heat within your house. Without the doors the chimney simply sucks the heat in your home up the chimney. In the summer months, glass fireplace doors can keep cool air from your air conditioning unit from being lost into the chimney too.

To enhance home safety, glass fireplace doors may be the right choice for you. If you still have an old fashion wood burning fireplace, which I much prefer over gas fireplaces, you don’t have to wait until the fire burns out before retiring for the night. By closing the glass doors the fire will burn out safely. Most new homes come with glass fireplace doors. If you live in an older home you may want to look into retrofitting your fireplace with new glass doors. Glass fireplace doors come in standard sizes that fit in any fireplace opening.

Glass fireplace doors come in a wide variety of styles and are made with tempered glass that is very strong. However, if you need more durable glass fireplace doors ceramic doors are available but are much more expensive. It’s very important point that when choosing your glass fireplace doors that they fit correctly. An incorrect size fireplace door will lose its efficiency allowing house heat to escape through your chimney. To avoid an incorrect fit measure your fireplace opening. Use a standard tape measure to get the correct height and width of the inside opening. Use these measurements when shopping for glass fireplace doors to ensure your new doors are going to properly fit. Most glass fireplace doors have adjustable trim along the sides and top so they can be made to fit most fireplace openings. Some fireplace shops can either make on site or order tailor fit glass doors for your fire place.

After a time in use your glass fireplace doors may get a purple-blue discoloration. This can be easily cleaned off by using a product called “Ameri-Ken” or similar cleaner. You fireplace glass doors will again look new and spotless.

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Gas Fireplaces

Staring Fireplace Fires