How To Prevent House Fires With Fireplace Covers

By Leslie Ball


Fireplaces have provided comfort and warmth to families throughout centuries and are known to create the focal point in a room. With the steady flames of the burning wood, people are able to gather around, relax, and have themselves enjoy the warm environment during the cold season as they discuss about how the day activities were. Use of firescreens or doors has also been there for a long time. Today, fireplace covers are not only a big trend in the fireplaces but also part of the visual appeal designs.

Nowadays, fireplaces have been designed in a modern setting environment. They are not only used for warming up the home but also creating a visual appeal. To achieve this goal, the fires are often decked out with use of decorative parts such as the mantles in order to make the focal point of the house.

The fireplace is today pampered with different accessories all in the name of making it look appealing to the eye. People will find it very fulfilling and satisfying to congregate around fireplaces in the evenings and enjoy the heat while also discussing aspects of the day activities. It is important to note that much of the safety aspects of fireplaces have been pinned on chimneys.

Using the doors or screens to cover the fireplaces has shown that it can reduce the possibility of suffering injuries among the family members or the risk of having home fires. When people think of fires in houses, they often imagine of those raging chimneys fires. Such fires are caused by creosote buildup, poor chimneys maintenance, and bad draft.

Each year, there are thousands of premises owners who lose their property and others are killed or severely injured in fires that arise in the houses. These are fires that could have been prevented if there are covers used in fireplaces. Without using the fireplace doors or screens, energy is lost up in chimneys when burning the wood logs.

When burning wood tumbles down, it presents dangers to the tiles and wooden floors. It may destroy the tiles, the wood floors, carpets, or even roll to someone sitting or standing next to the fires. When the fires are open, the sparks and cinders will fly and float freely in the house and they could land on clothes, home furnishings, and furniture.

The embers or sparks could trigger fires and cause damage to the home. Safety issues in fireplaces have much been centered on the chimneys, which are said to trigger fires every year, causing a trail of damages in property and lives lost. Chimney fires have been the center of discussion in topics concerning the safety of fireplaces in homes.

Fireplace doors may help in increasing efficiency of the fireplaces since they act as barriers between the home and the chimneys structure. When you have open fireplaces, it is like having open windows. There is reduced efficiency in burning of wood. But this can be increased by covering the open fires. Using open fireplaces not only increases the cost of heating a home but also puts real dangers to the home and its occupants.




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