When I started heating my home entirely with logs that I chopped by hand, I quickly learned there is a lot of science and ...

Erica Burns, a Bethesda, Md., designer, says she has seen an increasing interest in old-fashioned, wood-burning fireplaces. “Gas fireplaces seemed to have been big over the last 10 or 20 years.

Erica Burns, a Bethesda designer, says that she has seen an increasing interest in old-fashioned, wood-burning fireplaces."Gas fireplaces seemed to have been big over the last 10 or 20 years. But ...

It turns out that more than 10,000 residential fires each year in the United States can be traced to fireplaces, chimneys and wood-burning stoves. That equates to at least 40 fires per day during ...

Different fireplaces use different kinds of fuel and for wood-burning fireplaces, wood is the fuel of choice. When you have a fireplace at your home, you need to understand what kind of wood is the ...

Carriage horses, low-rise 19th-century buildings, wood burning fireplaces -- the Mayor doesn't seem to have much use for the 19th century. The mayor's ban on building new wood burning fireplaces will ...

As the name suggests, it’s for burning gas only. Repeat: burning gas ONLY. A built-in gas fireplace’s venting system is inadequate to deal with the smoke and vapors of a wood fire.

While burning, these fireplaces can exhaust as much as 300 cubic feet of heated indoor air to the outside your home per minute, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.