Glass Fireplace Doors
Glass Doors Makes a Safe Fireplace
Introduction:
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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