How Do Ventless Gas Fireplaces Function?
When shopping for a new home, people desire and look for many different features. One of the most sought after features for any prospective home buyer is a fireplace. While almost all new homes constructed today will include a fireplace, many homes built in the middle of the last century do not. But now comes along a new technology know as a vent-less gas fireplace. These non-vented units can be placed anywhere in the home where a natural gas or propane line can be accessed. The basic components of these gas devices are really quite simplistic. These fireplaces consist of high efficiency burners and fake logs that are manufactured of composite materials and then painted to closely resemble the real thing. The high efficiency burners create a flame which burns much hotter than the burners utilized for vented gas fireplaces. The hotter flame almost totally consumes the normal products of combustion such as soot and carbon monoxide. The small amounts of these gases that remain unburned ar
