Gas or Wood fireplace?

[geminibear]

Which do you prefer?

 

Each has their advantages.

 

Gas: clean, easy, good on the environment, push the button and presto instant fire, requires gas company to be in operation(see below)

 

Wood: chop wood, cut wood, store wood, haul wood, deal with critters that live in and or around stored wood(mice etc etc), sticky sap, building a fire, ashes, soot, smoke, chimneys, flu, house fire, roasting marshmallows, smores, franks, doesn't require infrastructure during possible zombie apocalypse.

[Juan Vancouver]

I have loved gas for my every day living, wood for a weekend visit.

[seaboy4hire]

Growing my grandparents had a wood stove. We would go out in the woods chop fire wood and stack it once we got home. I mostly enjoyed doing it. We had to do almost double duty because we needed wood for the winter for the house and wood for the summer property.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[craigville beach]

wood for outdoor fire pit, gas for indoors

 

they also have some very nice "wood stoves" that burn gas

[seaboy4hire]

I'm old school, wood all the way.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[AdamSmith]

Gas fireplace analogs:

• Non-alcohol beer
  
• Kiss on the forehead
  

[AdamSmith]

Gas fireplace analogs:

• Non-alcohol beer
  
• Kiss on the forehead
  

• Polyester dress shirts
  

[geminibear]

• Polyester dress shirts
  

• medicinal marijuana?
  

[AdamSmith]

• medicinal marijuana?
  

Not sure the analogy quite holds!

 

Rather the opposite, I would think.

[+ purplekow]

Well I like wood in the morning.

Gas after dinner.

[bigvalboy]

Neither...Plug me in. (It's a Florida thing)

 

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[AdamSmith]

Well I like wood in the morning.

Gas after dinner.

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[RussJohnson]

Go wood or go home!

[Rudynate]

Gas or firelogs. They're tidy.

[OneFinger]

When I lived in Michigan I converted my log fireplaces to gas. Didn't regret it for a single minute. Gas is the only way to go.

[+ azdr0710]

what is this.....this "fireplace" you speak of??

[gallahadesquire]

One could get a propane tank and use that. I have a small ranch, and it has upstairs and downstairs fireplaces.

Some friends moved away, and left me a cord-and-a-half of hardwood that had been stored in their garage for ten years. That stuff burned incredibly well, and left virtually no ash.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

Although I have a gas fireplace in my current residence, I love going home with a wood fire burning.

[+ glennnn]

Gas fireplace analogs:

• Non-alcohol beer
  
• Kiss on the forehead
  

Coitus interruptus

Not inhaling

[Mocha]

What about wood stoves and electric fireplaces? Great thread!

 

I need my fireplace, it's on now. I don't know if I'd want to live in a cold city like Denver without a fireplace. An older friend of mine said that years ago in south Texas (where it only gets cold enough to kill stuff, but not snow). and he'd always burn those paper logs.

 

I say wood fire all the way. I've researched the pros and cons many times. Ive seen some good output gas fireplaces, but the ones with the glass which can't be opened seem to only have soft flames rather than the roaring fire wood gives. I have a woodfireplace, but I don't have an axe or chainsaw. There's wood lots that do all the work for me.

 

The thing with gas is its not a renewable resource in the long run. But, wood has been shown to emit carcinogens in the air, mainly when people burn green wood or let it smolder. And spending a few hours driving thru the mountains in the winter is enough to trigger my asthma. That said, few people rely on fireplaces for heat, and wood fireplaces are mainly just for ambience. Wood fireplaces are very inefficient, wood stoves are the way to go.

 

The other con to wood is the carpet burns I get when an ember sparks and flies 4 feet across the living room when you open the screen door for a second. Shit almost burnt my fucking alpaca rug.

[+ glennnn]

Premature Ejaculation?