And be sure you re keeping an eye on that wood fire.
Wood burning fireplace doors open or closed.
If your fireplace doors are shut oxygen cannot reach the flames.
Fireplaces are notoriously inefficient because they suck your heated room air up the chimney and replace it with cold air from outside your home through cracks in the doors and windows.
Wood burning stoves are not designed to be used with the door open.
Wait for it to have burned out before heading to bed.
Tempered glass that comes standard on most fireplace doors will shatter once it reaches temperatures of 450 degrees.
Make sure anything that can burn.
If the doors are closed you are losing all of the fireplace s heat.
Build a fire with dry seasoned firewood and kindling or fire starter bricks then close the metal mesh screen but leave the glass doors open.
The premium mesh panels located behind the doors should always be closed and glass doors opened when you have a fire going.
Burning a fire with the doors closed gives you more controlled combustion and drastically reduces heat loss.
Knowing how a wood stove works is key to understanding why using your stove you should have the door closed at all times.
Glass doors should be fully open when starting a fire and when the fire is burning strongly.
This results in a dull blaze with little heat output.
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Oxygen is a key element in healthy burning fires.
The glass doors should be closed as the fire dies down to minimize the amount of room air going up the fireplace chimney.
First open the flue.
A wood fire left untended isn t safe.
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Allowing your fireplace doors to remain open will promote better airflow.
Fire administration usfa states that.
Doors can only be closed if there is no fire burning.
Closing your fireplace doors doesn t make your fire burn longer.
Doors on a fireplace that use tempered glass are more susceptible to shatter due to high temperatures from a fire and so it s recommended to always keep fireplace doors open when having a fire.
It also makes your wood last much longer.
It s recommended that glass doors on a wood burning fireplace are left open during a fire.
You can use a wood burning stove with the door open but doing so will lose the control of the air flow into the stove making it operate less efficiently and sending more heat up the chimney rather than out into the room.
When a fire is burning your fireplace can reach temperatures up to 1200 degrees.
Fireplace doors should always be kept open while a fire is burning.