Ventless gas/propane fireplaces??? Thoughts anyone??

[Tuffoldhen]

I have one in my great room/dining room. It's been here for 7 years, love it! It does a great job!!!

 

[ParadisePoultry]

Thanks everyone so far who has answered. The problem is, this is a rental house, and we cannot start knocking holes in walls to vent it. If I could, I would put in a wood burning stove, but we have to work with what we have.

 

[Orchid]

In that case, I would use some kind of electric heater. Electric heaters are, after all, 100% efficient.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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Mine is ventless !!

 

[sharron]

from another heating plumbing contractor, the ventless are ok for heat but they do put off fumes, no pets in the same room if at all possible, the fumes will kill birds( i also raise birds) so if the fumes can kill birds, what are they doing to your lungs? i have one in my office but i use an electric heater instead of the ventless. and they make such nice looking electric fireplaces now.
my opinion.

 

[greyhorsewoman]

We bought an old farm about 11 years ago. The house had been converted to all electric, no chimneys. The first year nearly bankrupted us. We installed a corner vent-less propane fireplace in the dining room. It has successfully heated the ENTIRE downstairs area without incident for ten years. (We have had to replace the switch twice I think.) We do get some 'dust residue' but not nearly as much as we got when we used a woodstove. (And much less work.) We had the gas company hook it up to the same tank as our gas stove.

All forms of heating have their pros and cons. All have a level of safety. Apartment house just burned down in our town from an electric heater a couple weeks ago. Birds are often more sensitive to pollutants, but we had finches and canaries in the house for several years without incident.

 

[ParadisePoultry]

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I've thought about electric, but I think they would be much more expensive to run. This would not be for our main heat, but for just heating the LR when we are in it, and keep the rest of the house cooler...

 

[greyhorsewoman]

I should have included that we keep a ceiling fan running at all times to circulate the heat. I hadn't anticipated the ability of this small fireplace to keep our entire downstairs (old farmhouse) comfortable. (LR,dining, office, kitchen, laundry & half bath.) I thought we'd have to supplement with some electric. We haven't turned on a single electric thermostat in the downstairs since we installed it. We do turn it down to bare minimum at night. It cycles on and off enough to keep off the chill till morning.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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My parkakeets have lived in this same room for years now with our gas fireplace.

 

[sharron]

your gas fireplace, is it vented into a chimney? if not, you're very lucky not to lose your keets. when i used the ventless, i could smell the fumes and always scared me to be breathing them.