Vented gas fireplaces use a high temperature glass panel to separate the burning area of the gas fireplace from the inside of your home.
Vented or ventless gas fireplace.
Vented gas logs produce carbon monoxide emissions so your fireplace must have a chimney or flue.
Of course it s not exactly that simple.
The product is made to produce up to 32 000 btu of heat enough to heat 1 500 square feet of living space.
Ventless logs do not put off these emissions so no chimney or flue is needed and the heat is more likely to stay in your space.
By contrast vented gas fireplaces which create a dangerously high amount of combustion vent to the outside.
By burning gas instead of wood you can create a smokeless heat that doesn t require ventilation and allows all the heat created by the fire to stay in your home.
They don t require venting which allows all of the heat produced to stay inside the living space and offers a lot more flexibility with installation.
Ventless fireplaces are more energy efficient than vented fireplaces because no heat escapes up the flue so you ll save money on gas utility bills.
The basic concept of a vent free fireplace is easy enough to understand.
The duluth forge ventless fireplace features our furniture quality fireplace mantel and our dual fuel vent free gas fireplace insert that provides you with heat and beauty.
According to the hearth association ventless fireplaces boast efficiency rates of 99 percent compared to 70 85 percent for vented units.
A vented gas fireplace uses more gas to create.
Ventless gas fireplaces also known as vent free fireplaces are an efficient and economical way to add more heat to your home without the costs associated with a typical fireplace installation.
Gas fireplaces come in two configurations.
This contrasts with a ventless gas fireplace which vents into your home.
Its spent gasses are not returned to the home.
Fireplaces wood burning and heating stoves flues and chimneys vented or ventless we are getting ready to put in gas logs.
Ventless gas fireplaces are deemed to operate within the range of safety for cycling combusted gasses back into the home s interior.
So your direct vent gas fireplace will take air in from the outside and then exhaust all the gases to the outside.
We have a working chimney but i would need to close it off at the damper.