You may have considered changing or upgrading the heating to your family room, but wondered if a traditional gas fireplace is easy to install, maintain and look after. Fortunately, modern technology ensures that the traditional fireplace can be installed in a short period, be easy to manage and require just a little regular safety maintenance.
Hidden Behind the Scenes
There is a belief that it is extremely expensive to add a traditional gas fireplace to a property where no chimney currently exists. This is no longer true because lightweight structures can be accommodated on a good quality floor, to hold the weight of the hearth.
A flue or chimney is not necessarily required in the traditional sense, as a gas fireplace does not require the removal of smoke from your property.
Modern versions of traditional gas fireplaces look and feel as realistic as any traditional fireplace from past decades, yet are more effective and considerably more environmentally friendly. Although wood is a renewable energy source, a gas fire is far healthier because you are not sending combustible material into the atmosphere
Gas That Looks Like Wood
Without close inspection, many gas fireplaces give the impression that you are burning wood, providing the feeling and ambience that a traditional wood fire brings to your home.
The cost of installing a gas or wood fire are quite similar, but performance over the longer term and the lack of venting a wood fire reduces the total cost of installing a gas fire.
With the power of the heat being controlled thermostatically, it is easier to choose the amount of heat you require in a room, compared to a wood fire.
Because a gas fire can be naturally vented, using direct vent or vent free technology, you can make choices about where to install the traditional fireplace to suit your property and your available finances.
