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Posted on April 1, 2006 by Deon Melchior | Posted under Home Improvement
Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces Tested and Approved
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To ensure your safety look for wood burning stoves and fireplaces tested and approved. Once you find the woodstove or fireplace of choice following recommendations, i.e. have an expert install your unit to make sure it works properly. How to use wood burning stoves and fireplaces: Using wood burning stoves or fireplaces to heat your home requires that you have proper ventilation. Your home should be safe from fumes or smoke, rather the smoke should release out of your chimney. Smoke is dangerous, since it has fumes that produce combustible, fire hazardous creosote. If you smell fumes or smoke, then your unit is not burning correctly. As well, you are wasting money, since most of your heat is not circulating in the proper areas it should be circulating. Tested and approved units offer you efficiency and safety. The wood burning stoves or fireplaces have seals that promise you that your unit will burn competently by releasing nearly 100% of the smoke and fumes out of your chimney. Once you choose your wood burning stove or fireplace, have a certified technician install the unit. Making sure the unit is properly installed ensures that you have safety working correctly in your home. Tested and approved wood burning stoves and fireplaces have the back of EPA, or environmentalist experts. To install the unit properly look for certified techs that have a proven background with installing wood burning stoves and/or fireplaces. Techs with proven backgrounds will ensure that your wood burning stove or fireplace is properly installed, burning correctly and that ventilation is properly working. Properly installing your wood burning stove or fireplaces gives you many advantages. You will save money on heating bills, especially since your unit is performing, as it should. Instead of smoke circulating in your home building creosote, the fumes and smoke will release through your chimney properly. Creosote derives from wood preservatives. This thick, yellowish or brownish oil-based substance derives from coal tar and used in wood preservation. If this substance is circulating in your home, it is building a colorless oil-based fume that comes from wood tar. The tar builds in the chimney, which puts your home at risk. The dark colored tar deposits build in the flue, producing flammable forms of gasses that have not burned the wood completely. This is the cause behind chimney fires. To ensure a safe home let someone with skills and certifications install the unit. Each year have a certified person sweep your chimney. Experts in fire safety and the pros in environmental tells us to clean once each year our vents, woodstove and chimneys to adhere to safety. Hiring experts to sweep your chimney will guarantee that your unit is working properly and performing as it should be. Fire safety tips and health hints: Never should you keep anything flammable around your fireplace or wood burning stove. Keep paper, books, magazines, or related flammable items away from your unit. You should install a carbon (CO) alarm and smoke alarm in your home to protect your home and family. Carbon is dangerous, and will kill you...you will never know that carbon is producing in your home unless you have a CO alarm installed. About The Author: Deon Melchior is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites visit - www.articleclick.com |
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