Gas Fireplaces, Stoves and Inserts

Gas fireplaces and gas inserts offer a diverse range of styles, from modern and sleek to quaint old-fashioned and traditional designs. Gas inserts have the charm of an authentic wood burning fireplace along with the convenience of natural gas or propane.

The most attractive characteristic of a gas fireplace is it’s ‘instant-on’ ability. While some individuals relish the experience of chopping wood, building a small pile on some paper, and painstakingly lighting a wood fire, others appreciate an instantly warm gas fireplace that allows the enjoyment of dancing flames on their own schedule. Gas fireplace inserts can also be thermostatically controlled to prevent the room becoming excessively warm, potentially tricking your furnace into cooling the rest of the house.

Gas logs are gas fireplace inserts that can be turned on and off just as quickly as as a complete gas fireplace. They also allow the use of your existing fireplace with minimal modifications. Unlike many gas fireplaces that require electricity in order to automatically ignite, gas log sets have the ability to manually start the fire with a match or other source of ignition in case of power outages.

Gas fireplaces are available for recessed or wall mounted installation, which means that they can be installed as a retrofit in a traditional fireplace enclosure, or in some cases, even installed on a wall with minimal penetration. This can be extremely important in some applications, such as apartment installations where space is at a premium, and cutting large chunks out of walls may not be an acceptable option. Some gas fireplaces are so small and modular that they are even approved for installation in mobile homes.

While wood burning fireplaces and stoves require more stringent guidelines to meet building codes, gas burning fireplaces and stoves are far more flexible and can be placed on nearly any wall or in the center of a room.