Maybe you’ve had a fireplace, but does it produce the heat you need to warm your house? Usually and old and traditional fireplace send more heat up the chimney than they provide to your home. But the good news is that exciting new fireplace design now adds energy-efficiency to the romantic tradition of the hearth. Nowadays there are many fireplace design equipped with advance technologies available on the market.
For instance there are expensive but efficient and beautiful Scandinavian design fireplace. For example, the Scandinavian fireplace are standalone, it enables them to cast heat into their surrounding, therefore the heat does not trapped in one place, and the surface of the material used (usually stone) are able to store the heat and release to the surrounding environment as many times as needed.
Aside from the expensive Scandinavian fireplace, there are also other fireplace design which involves high efficiency and technological advancement. This new kind of fireplace is gas fuelled vent free fireplaces and electric fireplaces. The gas fuelled vent free fireplace is operated by propane gas or natural gas, while the electric fireplace use only electrical source to operate. Each of this type of fireplace has its own advantages. A gas fuelled vent free fireplace has been well known for its 99% heat efficiency because of the near complete combustion it produces. Meanwhile the electric fireplace is known for its portability and easiness of use. You can place it any where you like as long as it is near a power outlet.