How to quadruple the amount of heat from your fireplace by using Thermal Reclamation.
A custom fitted arched double row fireplace grate heater made by hastyheat.com
Adding a tubular blower log grate heat exchanger to your fireplace is one of the easiest methods of making your fireplace capable of better heating your home. Get more heat while burning less wood.
This is the 24GR24TD thermal reclamator made by HastyHeat.com
If your fireplace has a common glass door frame it is best to select a fireplace grate heater that can be fitted underneath the door frame blowing out a large volume of hot air with the doors closed.
The 3Q fireplace heat exchanger made by hastyheat.com installed under a common bifold glass door frame.
A custom double 3Q hearth heater made by hastyheat.com for a very large fireplace to match its large fireplace glass door frame.
If you are considering getting a insert be sure to select something that is custom fitted to ensure the largest viewing aperture of your fire as to not lose any of the important ambiance your hearth provides your home. Many cheap or universal fireplace inserts have very large metal flashing on the boarders and small glass windows in there doors. Another important feature in a quality insert is also the surface area in its heat exchanger to capture and blow heated air out and into your home. Some basic fireplace inserts offer no heat exchanger or blower to get the energy of the firewood moved from the fireplace throughout your home.
A CFI custom fitted insert made by hastyheat.com
Adding a lift out ashtray is another convenient option to add to improve the function of your fireplace because it can significantly simplify the ash removal and cleaning up after your fires. If it is easier to keep the combustion pocket clean it is more likely the cleaning will be done regularly. Improving combustion reduces unburned smoke wood gas heat energy loss from going up the chimney.
A easy lift up and out ashtray like this one made by hastyheat.com makes ash management a simple chore.
A easy lift up and out ashtray like this one made by hastyheat.com makes ash management a simple chore.
Even a basic economical fireplace grate heater that saves on the cost of manufacturing complexity can make a significant improvement to the ability of your fireplace to keep your home cozy.
A 16HTH fireplace blower made by hastyheat.com
A fireback is a ancient technology to use the heat of the fire to illuminate your room with heat using FAR far infrared radiation using a metal plate in the back of the firebox. This effect is similar to how a flat screen TV can illuminate a dark room with a white screen radiating its light, but in this case it is invisible heat being radiated. On a tubular fireplace grate the fireback can act as the same as a FAR infrared panel emitter while at the same time helping to direct the flame along the tubes where the heat can best be conducted into the homes air being circulated through its tubes.
Notice the FF full fireback on this TGR tapered fireplace grate heater made by hastyheat.com
If maximum heat is not your primary goal and your spouse is apposed to or anyone in the home is super sensitive to the low background hum of a fan that is forcing large volumes of heat into your home, fanless heat exchangers are an option to consider. Though the use of natural convection is not near as effective as a blower, the flow of heated air upward out the tubes of a fanless tubular log grate can be a compromise between effectiveness and personal aesthetic preference.
This is the 24TGR16TD fanless grate heater made by hastyheat.com
As you can see there are many choices available to improve the heat output of your fireplace that we at hastyheat.com have made available with our skill, effort, and company ethos "we keep families warm"
If your home does not have a fireplace we highly recommend looking into a pellet stove like our line of CHP pellet stoves, as a primary or backup home heating and cooking appliance. Wood pellet stoves can burn for very long durations at very high efficiencies with the least amount of ash and fuss offered by any biomass heating appliance. Our modular CHP wood pellet stove cartridge burner has been used to build a broad variety of portable and home heating appliances. From a simple direct flame burner for camp cooking with a pan/pot/wok, or a stainless griddle to make hamburgers on the field for a team, in a sailboat - caravan - or tiny house, as a boiler for a hydronic heating loop, or a ultra high efficiency condensing thermal stratification barrel stove FAR infrared radiant heater, even fit into a flight bag with a TEG thermal electric generator to grill carne asada and charge cellphones at a regional burning man gathering on the white house lawn; Hasty Heat knows how to wield thermal dynamics in a creative and artful way for your quality heating needs.
Portable CHP wood pellet stove high output burner made by Hasty Heat llc
The CHP-CS camp wood pellet stove is perfect for keeping your yurt warm and cooking meals.
A CHP wood pellet fired barrel stove cooking up grub and warming up hungry hikers.
A high efficiency barrel stove heater built with the CHP wood pellet stove cartridge from hastyheat.com
Grilling on the white house lawn with a CHP portable thermal electric boiler by HastyHeat
At HastyHeat.com we build the finest fireplace grate heat exchangers used in the most fabulous and ancient fireplaces all over the world. Our customers get more heat while burning less wood.
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