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How To Save Energy And Money With Fireplace Blowers

By Elizabeth Garner of Majestic-FK24.com

To keep yourself warm during those cold winter months, a well-installed fireplace is a must. To make that fireplace even more efficient, consider the use of fireplace blowers that can ensure even distribution of heat, making sure that the heat spreads uniformly, instead of losing a major part of it through the chimney.

How Fireplace Blowers Are Installed

Installing fireplace blowers is usually easy, especially if there is a standard 110-volt junction box available. If there is no power you will need to arrange for one. You have two options with fireplace blowers:

• Blower-equipped tube heater, which is used with glass enclosures, increasing the heat two-fold. This kind of fireplace blower can enhance the efficiency of your fireplace by almost 20%. The fireplace fan kit and motor propels the air at the rate of 200 cubic feet per minute, heating the room.

• Grate fireplace blowers works on the principle that the heat of the core of the fire is more than the flames. It uses the untapped heat of the coals and increases efficiency. Here the fire is built directly on top of the unit. Heat is carried into the device, warming any air that comes in as it passes through the baffles. The heated air is then forced through tubes into the room.

How Fireplace Blowers Can Make A Difference
Suppose a fireplace is not perfectly installed, instead of making the room warm, it can actually end up making the room chilly. It is for this reason that fireplace blowers like the Majestic FK24 are used. These fireplace blowers take the heat from the fireplace and push it into the room, making the fireplace itself more efficient. The aim of any fireplace is to minimize the air loss from the heated room while optimising the amount of heat that comes into the room, and this is precisely how a blower works.

A fireplace will always lose at least some amount of heat because of the combusted air. But too much loss can interfere with the process of combustion, resulting in creosote deposits. Getting the fireplace damper replaced or getting an airtight seal, or even going in for new fireplace doors might counter this. But the most efficient option is to add fireplace blowers because they can distribute the air to a larger area, making the fireplace more fuel-efficient, saving on operating costs, too.

Best of all, fireplace blowers are not expensive, are easy to install as they simply need to be plugged in into a standard outlet. The fireplace blower, along with a fireplace fan kit can be positioned in front of the fireplace, or the doorway of the room. When you place it in front of the fireplace, it pushes air into the room, heating it. If placed on front of a doorway, the blower pushes heated air from the fireplace to make the entire house warm.

You must remember that fireplace blowers like the Majestic FK24 do not influence the combustion rate of the fireplace or the quality of the fire. Its sole function is even heat distribution.

Contributed by Greg Garner on January 12, 2009, at 6:53 PM UTC.

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Majestic FK24
My website sells Majestic FK24 blowers.
www.majestic-fk24.com

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