Heat Cool and Insulate

Up to thirty percent of the hard earned money you spend on your wintertime heating bill escapes by way of the closed damper of an unused fireplace. The chimney continually draws warm air out of your house and requires that your primary heat source continue to work harder in order to replace that heated air. In order to stop throwing money in the fireplace, get a fireplace plug.

A fireplace plug is a plastic inflatable pillow that’s quite effective at sealing the fireplace chimney. Once the plug is in place, there is no more draft and nearly no heat loss via the chimney. While the plug may look like an inflatable swim toy, the material it’s made of is specially selected to be impervious to the acids in wood soot and creosote so that the plug is long lasting.

Your firebox must be cool before inserting the plug. You need to make certain that there are no sharp openings in the chimney that may rupture the pillow. A scraper or brush can be used in order to eliminate creosote or soot in the area before inserting it. The pillow is simply lifted into the chimney opening and the handle adjusted to keep it in place.

You have just begun to save thirty percent off the cost of heating or cooling your house.

In order to use the fireplace, all that you need to do is take out the plug and pull the handle to open the damper. Once the fire dies down, let the fireplace cool off and close the damper. Re-insert the fireplace plug in the opening. The fireplace doors or screen conceals the handle so that nobody realizes that it’s there.

In one month, the average home heating bill will go down enough to cover the cost of the fireplace plug. In addition, you will find that the plug makes your house more comfortable. You’ll immediately be aware that drafts coming into the house around windows, plugs and switches are stopped. The natural vacuum caused by the chimney has been stopped and that cold air is no longer being drawn into the house to have to be heated by your furnace.

If you seal the windows effectively, the chimney effect creates a vacuum in your home that eventually reaches the point that it must be filled. If a door has not been opened, the vacuum is filled by a down draft by way of the chimney. This process continues day and night right through the winter.

Tags: energy savings, insulating, Cooling

Tags: insulating, energy savings, Cooling

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