How Fireplace Covers Can Enhance Safety Of Fireplaces

By Leslie Ball


Fireplaces have provided comfort and warmth to families throughout centuries and are known to create the focal point in a room. With the steady flames of the burning wood, people are able to gather around, relax, and have themselves enjoy the warm environment during the cold season as they discuss about how the day activities were. Use of firescreens or doors has also been there for a long time. Today, fireplace covers are not only a big trend in the fireplaces but also part of the visual appeal designs.

It is a sweet experience to have the family gathered around the alluring and warm flames of burning woods during those cold nights as they talk about the events of the day. It provides a focal point where the house can derive not only beauty but also warmth. In modern time, fireplaces have been designed with one thing in mind, the visual appeal.

And while some of the fireplace accessories are designed to help in creating a visual appeal, the doors and screens have multiple functions in their use. The covers will add that touch of beauty. In addition, they help in enhancing the safety and efficiency of the fireplaces.

The risks of burning open fires spans from damage of property to injury of people. People always think of fires in houses as usually caused by the chimneys. They think that those fires can only be triggered by poorly maintained chimneys or the buildup of creosote. What happens is that there is less emphasis given to the less obvious risks of fires.

Each year, there are thousands of premises owners who lose their property and others are killed or severely injured in fires that arise in the houses. These are fires that could have been prevented if there are covers used in fireplaces. Without using the fireplace doors or screens, energy is lost up in chimneys when burning the wood logs.

When burning wood tumbles down, it presents dangers to the tiles and wooden floors. It may destroy the tiles, the wood floors, carpets, or even roll to someone sitting or standing next to the fires. When the fires are open, the sparks and cinders will fly and float freely in the house and they could land on clothes, home furnishings, and furniture.

The embers or sparks could trigger fires and cause damage to the home. Safety issues in fireplaces have much been centered on the chimneys, which are said to trigger fires every year, causing a trail of damages in property and lives lost. Chimney fires have been the center of discussion in topics concerning the safety of fireplaces in homes.

Fireplace doors may help in increasing efficiency of the fireplaces since they act as barriers between the home and the chimneys structure. When you have open fireplaces, it is like having open windows. There is reduced efficiency in burning of wood. But this can be increased by covering the open fires. Using open fireplaces not only increases the cost of heating a home but also puts real dangers to the home and its occupants.




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