Fireplace Vs Wood Stove: Advantages And Disadvantages

Advantages/Pros & Disadvanatages/Cons Of Wood Fireplace

Before installing the fireplace in your home, you should first know its pros and cons.

Here are the advantages of fireplace:

The best advantage of fireplace is that if you face a winter storm & power cut issue, then you can still stay warm by gathering around the fire, like the old people used to do, you can also cook food on your fireplace.
The smell, sound and apprearance of real fireplace is awesome, you watch television and also stare at the real flames of fire, but the electric and gas fireplace are no match for the real wood fireplace in the environs department because they can’t match the smell, sounds and appearance of the natural fireplace.
If you have real fireplace then you can actually instrust the children about the fire safety, and if you love to camp alot then a fireplace is the best and safer way to teach your childern that how to start, maintain and put out fires.

Here are the disadvantages of fireplace:

Your fireplace around area can become more drafty & can actually increase your heating bill if you open and leave open the flue of chimney, no matter by mistake or intentionally.
The Conventional fireplaces can be very harmful for you because the sparks and ash can easily jump out of your fireplace and onto anyone or anything near your fireplace, including the children & pets.
In order to keep your fireplace running, you need to keep a large amount of wood near you and this will require lot of time and also the money.

Before installing the gas stove in your home, you first shoul know its pros and cons.

Here are the advantages of wood stove:

The wooden gas stove will give a real appearance of fire, smell of the wood, crackling fire & also the flames dancing because you will burn real wood inside it.
The wood stove is not so expensive, you can easily afford this and the best thing is that the wood stove will burn wood and wood is the cheap and natural fuel.
You can easily repair or refinish your wood stove and it won't be so costly and time consuming.

Here are the disadvantages of wood stove:

The wood stove requires regular cleaning as well as regular maintenance.
Installation or improper maintenance of your wooden gas stove could lead to dirty smoke from the chimney.
You cannot control the fire of your wood stove because it does not have on or off button.