The holiday season brings visions of stockings, hung on the mantel above a crackling fireplace. The smell burning in the fireplace conjures happy memories of times past spent with friends and family. A fireplace serves as a beautiful centerpiece surrounded by moments of joy and peace with friends and family, especially during the holiday season. If your fireplace brings you headaches instead of joy, it may be time to consider making improvements to create the perfect ambiance in your home.
This Fireplace Brand Should Be a Household Name!
Have your travel plans been postponed this year? Bring something new and exciting to your home instead! Invest your travel budget into your own home and make it where you want to be! Give your living room a facelift, add a cozy lodge-getaway feeling to your bedroom, or create a new living space in your basement.
What Does Spring Mean To You?
Show Your Fireplace Some Love
This February, if you’ve been enjoying the beauty of a fire in your home and you haven’t given a thought to maintenance, it’s time to show your fireplace a little love. Fireplaces require annual maintenance to continue burning reliably, safely, and efficiently. If you’re not getting what you need from your hearth appliance, you can bring romance and heat to your home with a beautiful new fireplace, stove, or insert.
Your Guide to Gas Hearth Appliances
When you’re shopping for a new gas hearth appliance, it helps to know exactly what you’re looking for. The hearth industry is replete with jargon and learning about the different appliances can be dizzying. However, knowing the basic types of gas hearth appliance is the best place to start when you’re ready to tackle your project.
Give your home the gift of a working fireplace this holiday season!
What Kind of Fireplace Do I Have?
With over 20 years in the hearth industry, we get one question more than any other—“What have I got?” or “Is this a factory-built fireplace or a wood stove insert?” or “Is this a gas log set or a gas fireplace” or “It looks like a wood burning fireplace, is it?” No one in our industry intentionally set out to create a set of descriptions that lack clarity and uniformity, but that’s how it ended up. We’re here to help!
7 Common Fireplace* Myths
Myths and misconceptions about fireplaces abound. These myths range from the specific (“You can’t burn wood in Denver”) to the broad (“Gas fireplaces won’t work when the power goes out”). Read this article to find out why these myths are wrong and to put a few more fireplace, stove, and insert myths and misconceptions to bed along the way.
Chimney Sweeping and Fireplaces: An Abbreviated History
Like any technology, the fireplace has evolved over time and, in turn, so has fireplace maintenance and cleaning. For example, the certifications the staff at Mountain Hearth & Patio holds from the CSIA and NFI were developed to promote standardization and professionalism in our industry and EPA-Certified appliances have been around since 1990 and were created to limit emissions from wood-burning appliances
