Does your New Year’s Resolution include bringing warmth, safety, and beauty to your family, all while saving money? You can have it all with a new hearth appliance! Whether you burn natural gas, propane, pellets or cord wood, today’s appliances are more efficient and designed to put out more heat than previous generations. Regardless of fuel, most of today’s hearth appliances boast up to 80% efficiency, which means a cleaner burn, more heat in your home, and savings on your heating bills.
Make Your Heating More Efficient With A Fireplace
Often hearth appliances are in living rooms or great rooms so you can use zone heating, heating the area where you spend time. This means that the energy you use heating your home is expended where it is needed. Not only are you getting the most out of your fuel with super-efficient hearth appliances, additionally, zone heating reduces the heat wasted in unused areas of your home, saving you money on your heating bills.
If your living room has a drafty, inefficient open-face wood burning fireplace, you can seal out the cold and bring heat into your home by updating it with an insert. While inserts run on gas, pellets, or cord wood; our most common projects are upgrading old wood burning fireplaces with gas inserts. Another way we can help you stop the draft is by replacing the damper or installing a new set of fireplace doors that will help retain heat, save money on energy bills, and update the look of your fireplace.
Our NFI-Certified technicians put this unique portrait-style Valor Portrait gas insert into a beautifully remodeled Denver home.
Wood Burning in Colorado: Ambiance & Efficiency
The ambiance of a wood fire is one of the most enjoyable parts of a Colorado winter. The crackling of the fire and aroma of burning wood is hard to beat. If you want the ambiance of wood burning, but with the convenience of gas, a pellet-fueled appliance is right for you. Pellet appliances are controlled with a thermostat, keeping your living area evenly warm. Their high efficiency not only heats your home but also helps to prevent the buildup of creosote, another advantage. Pellet fuel and cord wood are the only renewable fuels for hearth appliances; they’re an independent and domestic source of energy, meaning the cost of wood is not influenced by foreign governments or economies. In Colorado, pellets are often harvested from beetle-kill trees and manufactured locally. Burning pellet fuel or cord wood sourced from your own land are two of the most efficient and economical ways to heat your home.
Gas Fireplaces: Convenience & Savings
If you are tired of chopping and carrying logs or cleaning up ash and soot you’ll love the convenience that comes with a gas fireplace, stove, or insert. Gas appliances have the advantage of remote controls and thermostat settings keeping you warm. Natural gas and propane are some of the most cost-effective sources of heat for your home by BTU’s. Having a new high-efficiency gas-fueled hearth appliance will pay for itself in the long-term by reducing the amount of fuel required to heat your home.
Gas fireplaces come in all shapes and sizes! We installed this Fireplace Xtrordinair ProBuilder 42 linear gas fireplace in Littleton.
Happy With Your fireplace? Keep up with Maintenance!
Regular dryer vent cleanings are another way to save money on your energy bills. The buildup of lint costs restricts the airflow through the dryer, reducing its efficiency and costing you extra money. An inefficient appliance costs more to run than an efficient one. If you notice that your clothes taking longer than normal to dry or that they are still damp when they come out of the dryer, it is probably time to have your dryer vent serviced. Our CSIA-Certified technicians are specialists that can also clean your dryer vent along with your annual fireplace service.
If you already have a state-of-the-art fireplace, stove or insert, you can save additional money with proper annual maintenance. Our technicians are certified by the Chimney Safety Institute of America and the National Fireplace Institute, and their expertise can help you to make the most of your hearth appliance.
Every homeowner wants to save money on energy costs. If you’re interested in ways you can upgrade your hearth appliance to help save money and use fuel more efficiently, give us a call at 303-679-1601, email Office@MtnHP.com, or visit our showroom at 7001 Highway 73, Evergreen. See our energy efficient fireplaces here! Happy New Year from Mountain Hearth & Patio!
