If I could only give you one piece of advice on how to enjoy the fireplace that you have in your home, it would be to install a quality Glass Fireplace Door.  The classic masonry fireplace that so many of us have in our homes has been found to be only 10 t0 15% efficient, and for that reason most people fail to see the real value in there masonry fireplace.  One of the main comments that I hear when I am talking to a client about there fireplace is, we just don’t use are fireplace very much because it’s not very efficient and when I sit by it I can feel a draft.   Or other client tell me, I love my fireplace I don’t care how efficient it is I just like to be able to enjoy a real fire in my fireplace.   So it should be no surprise that more and more people are wanting to know how they can enjoy their fireplace and use them in an efficient way.   As a Seattle masonry contractor of quite a few years I have helped thousands of home owners to remodel, update and improve the efficiency of their fireplaces.  The Glass Fireplace Door is the number one way that you can accomplish all three of these goals with one small investment, and you can install it with little or no help.  By installing a quality Glass Fireplace Door on the face of your fireplace you are creating  a new look to your fireplace, that not only updates it but also gives a new focal point to your fireplace face.

Let’s also talk about the efficiency aspect of installing a quality Glass Fireplace Door on your masonry fireplace.  Most fireplaces have a damper in them just above the firebox, the damper is used for controlling the draft in in your fireplace, and in most cases you need to keep it open the whole way when you are burning the fireplace.   When you are burning your fireplace in this way it will burn quite fast and well, but remember that fireplace efficiency of 10 to 15% that we talk about?  Well that what you will get when you burn your fireplace in this way.   So how can we change that to get a more efficient fireplace?  You probably know what I am going to say but here goes, buy a quality Glass Fireplace Door and install it on your fireplace.   When you do this you will up the efficiency of your fireplace by 25 to 30% that quite a large improvement to your fireplace. Hear is how that it works, first of all you can burn your fire with or without the Glass Doors open,  also when you burn your fireplace with the Glass Doors shut you still will heat the room up with radiant heat right through the Glass Fireplace Doors. 

 One of the services that we offer our customer is to install an outside air vent to the backside of the firebox, this can be opened when you are buring your fireplace with your Glass Fireplace Doors shut, thus allowing you to burn the fire with air from the outside instead of with the air that you have already heated up in your room.  There are serveral other great things that a quality Glass Fireplace Door will do for you so you will really enjoy your fireplace.   One of the things that happens here in the North West is the rain can rust out the metal dampers that are in our fireplaces, and they are hard to replace.   If you have this problem a quality Glass Fireplace Door can be your new damper, thus saving you the cost of replacing the old rusted out damper.  Would you really like to up your fireplace efficiency to maybe  65 or 70% ?  It can be done for less then you might think, there are several new ways to really up the efficiency of your fireplace and your total enjoyment of it, just click on the following link   www.timwmasonry.com