A New Fireplace for Your Home? Five Reasons to Make This Move

If you’ve been struggling with a low-performing masonry fireplace, or if your home doesn’t have a fireplace at all, you may be thinking about adding one. Replacement and first-time fireplaces can bring some wonderful benefits to a home and the family that lives there. Felgemacher of Buffalo, NY, and Rochester, NY, would like to tell you about five of these benefits.

Retire your drafty, low-heat masonry fireplace

It doesn’t take very long using a traditional masonry fireplace to realize:

• They’re beautiful to look at
• They can be very drafty
• They don’t retain much of their heat

The open design of masonry fireplaces causes them to lose most of the heat they produce – sometimes as much as 90%. The design also leads to draftiness. Modern manufactured fireplaces have a striking appearance and can be installed in most walls in your home, as long as there’s space on the exterior wall for a drafting chase. These appliances produce high heat and minimal drafts. They make great first fireplaces and replacement units.

Keep your masonry fireplace, but get better performance

Maybe you like the spot where your masonry fireplace sits. In this case, consider a fireplace insert. Designed for either gas or wood fuel, an insert fits into the open firebox of your masonry fireplace and operates similarly to a manufactured wall fireplace. Installing a fireplace insert is like waving a magic wand, dramatically improving your fireplace’s performance, heating, safety, and visual appeal.

Install a new fireplace that works with the interior design of your room

Is your masonry fireplace rustic-looking while your room décor is sleek and modern? Do you have no fireplace and want one that matches your room’s interior design? A new manufactured fireplace will give you the look and feel you’re after.

Install a fireplace in a different part of the room

As with décor, room layouts can change over the years, and your current masonry fireplace may sit in a place that’s no longer ideal or appropriate. A gas or wood-manufactured fireplace will give you the heat and lovely aesthetics you desire, and do so from the perfect spot in the room. As for your masonry fireplace, consider cleaning it up and using it as a showcase for artwork, photos, flowers, or seasonal decorations.

Add a fireplace for zone heating

Another reason to add a new fireplace to your home is for zone heating in bedrooms, kitchens, game rooms, and other smaller rooms. If you can’t configure your home’s heating system to heat just a single room, a new fireplace is the right solution. Smaller fireplace models are perfect for zone heating anywhere you need it.

Felgemacher installs fireplaces

If you’re considering bringing home a beautiful new fireplace, we invite you to our showroom at 2727 Broadway, Suite 5, in Cheektowaga, NY. Here, you can see a wide range of high-performing, visually stunning gas and wood fireplaces and fireplace inserts.

We’ll help you select the model that best meets your heating and decorative needs, and then our field crew will install it for you. Our installation work complies with all state and local code requirements and is performed to bring you the ultimate in safety and efficiency.

Visit us, or reach a fireplace expert by phone or through our handy contact form.