Fireplace Glass Doors Closed With Fire

With our outdoor fireplace doors if you want to burn a small fire with the doors closed the wood burning fireplace glass doors are just the right fit for you.

Fireplace glass doors closed with fire.

1 you will shatter your glass doors. Additionally it defeats the purpose of a fire heating your room as all the heat will go straight up your chimney not into your room. Fireplace glass doors increase fire heat when closed during a burning fire fireplace glass doors can more than triple the net heat realized in your home. Closing your glass doors when you re not burning fire in the hearth will actually prevent this from happening.

The rigid mesh panels behind the doors have easy catch magnets and safety handles and should always be closed and glass doors opened when you have a fire going. Build a fire with dry seasoned firewood and kindling or fire starter bricks then close the metal mesh screen but leave the glass doors open. Typical fireplaces reach temperatures between 500 and 1200 degrees. This will help you save on heating and cooling costs.

Standard tempered glass is made to withstand temperature up to about 450 degrees. Simple to install in 3 easy steps these fireplace doors complement are fully assembled and give your hearth a warm and inviting look and feel. Doors on a fireplace that use tempered glass are more susceptible to shatter due to high temperatures from a fire and so it s recommended to always keep fireplace doors open when having a fire. More product details close.

That is why we do not recommend closing the glass doors on a fireplace while there is a fire. Ceramic glass is designed to withstand temperatures up to about 1400 degrees. Doors can only be fully closed once the fire has died down to a coal bed. It s recommended that glass doors on a wood burning fireplace are left open during a fire.

2 it is not safe. First open the flue. Fire administration usfa states that. Doors should be open when burning a moderate to large fire or when burning gas logs.

Check out the outdoor masonry glass fireplace enclosure by thermo rite this door is gorgeous and made of high quality materials that ll hold up for years to come. Fireplace doors must remain fully open while an active fire is present. When using gas logs fire glass or modern gas media the doors must remain fully open at all times while in use. If your fire isn t dying down you shouldn t close the doors.

The glass can shatter sending hot shards of glass into the room. 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. 3 really good reasons to not burn a fire with your doors closed. For wood burning fireplaces some masonry doors can be gasketed for an extra tight seal.