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Vent-Free Gas Fireplaces
Direct-Vent Gas Fireplaces
Natural-Vent Gas Fireplaces
Woodburning Fireplaces
High Efficiency-Hybrid Woodburning Fireplaces
Electric Fireplaces
Bart Fireside / The Firehouse Casual Living Store
Certified Fireplace Dealer / Distributor for:
Monessen, Majestic, Travis Idustries, Vermont Castings
If you are building, remodeling, or have a blank wall and want a fireplace Bart Fireside / The Firehouse Casual Living Store has dozens of fireplaces available for installation. All of our fireplaces are "zero-clearance" units. This allows you to install the fireplace into a framed wood opening or finished mantle housing. No expensive brick foundations or chimneys are needed.
The Firehouse offers six different types of fireplaces, so it will be easy to find one that will satisfy your heating and asthetic needs. When you visit us, bring your building plans or room measurements and our staff will give you all the information you need to make a decision. Below are the different types of fireplaces available. Click the "Show-Me" button to see photos and specs on some of our most popular models. Again visit our showroom to see other models and see our live burning displays.
A vent-free or unvented gas fireplace is the simplest and least expensive route to having a fireplace in your home. The unit has no chimney. This allows easy room placement and design options. Many of our customers have placed televisions or bookcases in the space above a vent-free fireplace. Vent-free gas fireplaces are an excellent room heater and 99% efficient. The pros and cons of a vent-free fireplace are the same as vent-free gas logs.
Vent-Free Gas Fireplaces
Vent-Free Fireplace Facts
A direct-vent gas fireplace has a sealed combustion chamber that prevents any combustion gases from entering the room. Also, the combustion air is drawn from the outside. This allows a direct-vent fireplace to be installed in any room, including bedrooms and baths. In homes that are very tight or occupants are sensative to room venting (vent-free), a direct-vent fireplace is the way to go.
There are very little design limitations with a direct-vent gas fireplace. They can vent horizontally to an outside wall or vertically through the roof. Also the direct-vents available at Bart Fireside - The Firehouse Casual Living Store are designed with a convection heat exchanger that makes a typical 80% efficient direct-vent fireplace more cost effective to operate than a 99% efficent vent-free fireplace because it is able to heat many rooms.
Direct-Vent Gas Fireplaces
Direct-Vent Fireplace Facts
Natural-vent gas fireplaces are the oldest type of gas fireplace. A typical natural-vent uses close clearance Type "B" vent pipe used for vertical termination. Although there are design limitations with the installation of a vertically terminated natural vent fireplace, the homeowner can enjoy a very realistic fire and benefit from convection heat distribution. If your home requires a very high vertical termination (over 20') and/or you're looking for the most realstic all-gas fireplace, take a look at the natural-vent fireplaces available at The Firehouse.
It doesn't get any more traditional than a woodburning fireplace and with a zero-clearance woodburning fireplace, it doesn't get any easier to have. After all, gas fireplaces are only an imitation to real wood fires. Bart Fireside has installed woodburning fireplaces in South Carolina's finest homes, including the Governor's Mansion!. All of our fireplaces can be faced with marble, tile, brick, or stone to match your decor.
A manufactured woodburning fireplace can burn wood, vent-free, vented-decorative, or vented-heater gas logs. This gives you the most flexibility of any type of fireplace. You can change your mind and burn another type gas log or switch to wood. All of our fireplaces can be faced with marble, tile, brick, or stone to match your decor. Glass doors are available and mesh screens are included with each unit. Our quality fireplaces have tight sealing dampers and large fireboxes.
Come by Bart Fireside / The Firehouse Casual Living Store and see the mammoth 48" Superhearth by Majestic. This is definately the "manly" fireplace.
Natural-Vent Fireplace Facts
Woodburning Fireplaces
Woodburning Fireplace Facts
A high-efficiency (HE) fireplace is somtimes called a hybrid fireplace. The main differences between an HE fireplace and a standard masonry or manufactured fireplace are that the combustion air to the fire can be controlled, produce more heat, and generate long burn times. Efficient!! The fire burns inside a combustion chamber behind glass doors. The combustion air enters the firebox at the top of the glass creating an air wash which means cleaner glass. The smoke passes through a catalyst or secondary combustion chamber that actually burns the smoke. The heat generated is held in the box longer which heats an air plentum that carries the heat to the room and other parts of the home.
As you can see in the diagram at the right, a high-effieciency fireplace is capable of heating an entire home. Basically it is a woodburning furnace.
High Efficiency-Hybrid Woodburning Fireplaces
High Efficiency Fireplace Facts
Electric Fireplaces by: ElectraFlame
Electric Fireplace Facts