About 3,200 Lennox Shadowdance Natural Gas Log Set Burner Assemblies were recalled due to a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. A crack can develop in the gas valve connection allowing natural gas to leak while the burner is in use. At least 20 reports of cracks in the...
One of the cooler products on display at IBS 2011 was a fireplace product from a company called Earth's Flame that combines a gas-enhanced combustion system for easy fire starting with a unique emissions-reducing grate that pulls its own double-duty of capturing...
Woodstoves are a great way to heat your home in the winter -- and these days, homeowners with limited space or modern tastes have more choices than just the traditional cast-iron woodstove with a vent pipe sprouting out the top. For example, last week, designboom.com...
With winter on its way, we’ve been plugging woodstoves and fireplaces left and right — from recommending that you light up your fireplace to dispel bad odors in your home to tweeting our chimney-cleaning how-to article. And fireplaces certainly do have many...
This summer, we showed you Hangrohe's PuraVida iPhone app, which enables users to virtually redesign their bathrooms with PuraVida products. And now, as the nights get longer and the days get cooler, we bring you Napoleon Fireplaces' Design Studio iPhone App. This...
A couple weeks ago I had some friends over for an early evening BBQ on the shore of a thawed out Lake Champlain. As the sun descended over New York we thought it would be a good idea to start a fire in the homemade fire pit, which is little more than the rusted bottom...
While free-standing pellet stoves have been available for several years, it's only now that a pellet fireplace has become commercially available. Popular in Europe for many years, the technology will now become available to America with the launch of EDGE 60, a...
The best time to buy is when something is out of season. And with spring upon us, it's the right time to think about wood heating for your home. Mother Earth News has a useful article helping homeowners decide if wood heating is the right option for them. As a general...
Brrrr! Today hundreds of thousands of folks in the Midwest are still without power thanks to a powerful winter storm. That means a lot of people are probably using supplemental heating sources, like kerosene space heaters and fireplaces, to heat their homes. I’m...
This may be the coolest upgrade in heating since the fireplace—no kidding! The Aqueon from Heat & Glo is a hydrogen-burning fireplace, which means it uses ordinary hydrogen available in water to produce a flame and heat. You just fill the Aqueon with water and plug it...
