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Glass doors open or closed on the fireplace.
Your fireplace isn t a woodstove.
If you crack the doors open partially it can draw fumes and heat into the space.
Ceramic glass doors a masonry fireplace and do not care about any heat coming into your room then it is ok to burn a fire with your glass doors closed.
The premium mesh panels located behind the doors should always be closed and glass doors opened when you have a fire going.
In retrospect keeping your fireplace doors closed during the hotter months curtails warm air from entering your living space through the chimney when you re running the a c.
Even if this doesn t happen it can severely distort the flames.
Always use a metal mesh spark screen and close it after tinkering or adding more firewood.
Simple to install in 3 easy steps these fireplace doors add warmth elegance and safety to your hearth and are fully assembled.
The glass doors should be closed as the fire dies down to minimize the amount of room air going up the fireplace chimney.
A wood stove uses a pyro ceramic glass that is resistant to thermal shock.
If you close the doors the flames pull towards the glass where it can impinge and shatter the glass.
That is why we do not recommend closing the glass doors on a fireplace while there is a fire.
Without direct combustion air into the firebox area glass doors need to be in the open position during your fire.
Even more important is to leave the glass doors closed and the air shutters closed in between uses of the fireplace to minimize the loss of heated room air when the fireplace is not being used.
In the off chance you have.
Keep in mind the glass used with a wood stove is different from that used with a fireplace.
When a fire is burning your fireplace can reach temperatures up to 1200 degrees.
Burning with the doors closed makes for a smokier fire a dirty chimney and more air pollution.
Tempered glass 99 of the time your fireplace doors should be open when you are burning a fire.
The air shutters at the bottom provide a small amount of fresh air for the wood to burn.
Glass doors should be fully open when starting a fire and when the fire is burning strongly.
When you use your fireplace it is best to leave the glass doors open while the fire burns.
This will help you save on heating and cooling costs.
Keeping the doors open allows sufficient airflow to ensure complete combustion and to minimize the.
A fireplace uses tempered glass that is resistant to physical shock.
Operating the fireplace with the doors closed redduces the losses of that heated room air.
When burning gas logs in a wood burning fireplace the glass doors should always be fully open when the gas logs are burning.
If the doors are closed you are losing all of the fireplace s heat.
Keep your doors open like this ez door steel shown to the right.
Tempered glass that comes standard on most fireplace doors will shatter once it reaches temperatures of 450 degrees.