Electric fireplaces are the ideal way of bringing the experience of a fireplace into your home without the need for any existing chimneys, while also being able to heat the room it’s located in.
Electric fireplaces can be the best choice for you and your home if you’re living in an apartment or don’t already have an existing open fireplace.
Unlike other types of fireplace, electric fireplaces don’t have a real fire and so produce the flame effects and heat artificially. This means that electric fireplaces don’t need to be vented and therefore have a lot more flexibility in where they can be placed in your home compared to other types of fireplaces.
Wood burning fireplaces, wood stoves and gas fireplaces all need a chimney or flue because the waste byproducts produced from the fires need to be removed from your home for safety reasons. The installation of a chimney or flue can be extremely costly in order to facilitate being able to have one of these types of fireplaces in your home.
The majority of electric fireplaces simply need to be placed near an electrical outlet in your home. You can also have a new electric outlet installed to suit where you want your electrical fireplace to go.
This also makes electric fireplaces very easy to use. With an electric fireplace plugged in, you simply need to turn it on with a switch of a button. There’s no setup time and will work without any fuel or oxygen supply issues that can be common with wood burning fireplaces.
As long as you have an electrical supply to your home you can use an electric fireplace whenever you want. Wood burning fires require the right firewood in order to burn well and you can have a hard time getting fires to get going and produce heat with poor quality fuel.
We have an electric fireplace stove and we think that it was totally worth the relatively small purchase cost. It’s small enough that we can move it around our home with ease and enjoy the heat and flames in any room.