Does anyone have any experience with purchasing/installing a fireplace blower to heat the house? I would like to save on the electric/gas bill and use our fireplace as a source of heat while we are home. Thanks in advance,

Rebecca

I've never heard of just a blower. Several years ago, my parents had a fireplace insert with blowers that were connected with the duct work in the ceiling. The central heat and air had ducts in the floor. The house and their clothes reeked of firewood. The walls had to be painted more often also. Plus, it was a dry heat and they had to run a large humidifier.
The fire had to be kept going constantly for there to be heat.

Is your fireplace real logs or gas logs? Our fireplace is gas and we bought a blower to go in the fireplace. We bought it at Lowe's. It works really well. Instead of the heat staying at or near the fireplace, the fan blows the air out. During the winter, our heat comes on a lot less and I can actually feel the warm air all the way across the room. The fan we have comes on automatically when the heat reaches a certain temp on the fireplace and automatically turns off after the fireplace turns off.

dad had blowers built into the rock fireplace at our house when it was built. worked pretty good too.

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We just switched last year from a woodstove to a pellet stove. So nice not to have to lug crates of wood up the stairs! With the woodstove, we used a primitive blower...DH stood a fan behind it! LOL, but on the Pellet Stove we got the unit with the blowers, works great!

Being that our woodstove is in our family room off the kitchen what we did get what little fans that mount in the corner of the doorway and blows the warm air towards the kitchen and into the house, they also work great, and were very inexpensive at the fireplace store.

Already stocked up on our first pallet of pellets (say that 20x fast! LOl), another 2 pallets will get us through to March/April, so gotta make some room in the garage this weekend.

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Thanks for all the responses! We have a wood-burning and a gas fireplace but we want to use the blower on the wood-burning one. Another question...does the unit use alot of electricity? Were your bills reduced?

Rebecca

No, I don't think they use a lot of electricity. And yes, I could definitely see our bills reduced last year. I can't wait to start using my fireplace this winter!! Just make sure you get a good one. Remember, you get what you pay for. I've heard the cheaper ones stop working after a while and then you'll have to replace it.

I wonder about the ones who have the fans too close to the fire...won't the motor burn out?

---Here's to low bills this winter!

Rebecca