subject: Electric Fireplace For Single Room Heating [print this page] Should you have an electric fireplace for your home? It may be the cheapest, energy efficient and ecologically viable heating option available to you, but not in all cases. You need to study how your house is built, the climate in your area, and the heating options locally available to you.
If you plan to heat the entire house, an electric fireplace will cost you more money and provide less energy. On the other hand, if heating is not a necessity, or if you only have to heat a single room, it's the perfect option.
Electric heating may also produce a higher carbon footprint, although you may be unaware of it. If your town has electric plants that use fossil fuels, these plants waste energy in the process of producing and transmitting electricity. An electric fireplace is ideal if it is only for a single room, or if you don't have room to install a real fireplace. It's also feasible if you only want it for nostalgic or decorative reasons, and you don't need it to provide centralized heating.
For added decoration, you can get fireplace mantel surrounds for your fireplace. They also make it more closely resemble a real coal-fired fireplace. The effort needed to install or replace mantel surrounds will take time, but is not too hard.
Mantels can also be used as another set of shelves. In many cases, these faux fireplaces may already come with their own fireplace mantel surrounds. If you do need to change the surround, or just want to change the design, it may have to be custom fitted. But this should be no problem since it's easy to have customized surrounds made, especially online.
You may decide to get stone fireplace mantels for a sturdier looking fireplace. If the fireplace has to stay in a specific place, this might be the preferable thing to do. It will also have a more imposing appearance as a result.
