Fireplace Remodeling | Real Estate

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If you are considering remodelling your home a fireplace is an absolute must, not only will it provide a large benefit in beauty and heating efficiency, it will certainly help towards increasing the resale value of your home. As many as 75% of homebuyers looking to purchase homes will have a fireplace as a serious requirement and put a home without a fireplace towards the bottom of their short list.

Originally fires were for keeping warm and cooking with but with the advent of time things have changed a little, in many cases they still have these functions but have changed dramatically in appearance. In modern times when purchasing a fireplace for your home heat is not always the primary purpose for the purchase, appearance now plays a very big part in choosing a fireplace for your home.

More people are moving from the old traditional wood/coal burning fireplace to more modern applications like gas, electric and gel.

Gas fireplaces are good in appearance but are not the most popular choice with today’s consumers, whilst a gas fireplace looks good when it is burning its only effective when it is lighted and looks very dull when not in use, if gas is not piped directly to a home then it also entails changing gas bottles every time the fire dies through lack of fuel.

Electric fireplaces are the most popular choice of consumers, they are clean, environmentally friendly and easily installed. Most electric fireplaces on the market today have realistic looking dancing flames which can be used with or without heat, these are extremely popular in the high temperature states such as Florida and California where the heat is very rarely required but the beauty of the variable lifelike flames can be on display at an extremely low cost. Heat efficiency is 100% as all of the heat is dispersed in to the room and none lost through a chimney.

Electric Fireplaces normally consist of an electric firebox with glass doors fitted in to a mantel surround. There are lots of choices of mantels, the cheaper end of the market tend to be constructed from MDF and veneer. By far the best constructed mantels are made from solid wood, there are only a handful of dealers selling solid wood mantels due to the high manufacturing costs but some of the companies who have cornered this side of the market are able to offer extremely good prices for these very high quality pieces of furniture so it may be necessary to do a little research to find these companies but the end result is definitely worth the effort

Author Name : Greg Jackson
Email : greg@fireplaceblogs.com
Website Name: www.Fireplaceblogs.com

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Gel burning fireplaces are normally very cheap but don’t supply much heat and give off an alcohol burning sent, which is not normally very pleasant.

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