Why is a wood stove better than a wood fireplace?
There are wood stoves and wood efficient fireplaces. There are also traditional open burning fireplace that are not at all efficient. We do not sell or promote open burning open type fireplaces as they are only 12% efficient at best and when not burning is taking away at least 15% of your total household heat. The reason why we have these non heating units in Alaska in the first place is because of demand. Folks come up to Alaska from the lower 48 and remember all the heat that their fireplace provided them. They were in a zone 2 or 3. We are in a zone 5. Basically you are in the wrong place on the globe to entertain this style of a heating appliance. We sell a lot if “INSERTS” both in gas and wood to repair their open type fireplace unit to one that is more efficient.
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