Can anyone tell me which will make a gas bill higher, fire place, or furnace????
2006-11-24 05:30:02 · 7 answers · asked by mcnees79 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
There is no chimney. It is a gas fire place and vented.
2006-11-24 06:57:35 · update #1
A fireplace tends to only heat the room in which it is burning, but a furnace heats the entire house. So if you are trying to warm the entire house, a furnace would be far more efficient.
2006-11-24 05:39:42 · answer #1 · answered by nathanael_beal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If fire is a open vent style of installation, it's going to be extremely costly with minimum warmth. Now there are units offered for gas that are already pre-assembled sealed with a tumbler paneling that have blowers, and hat plates so it extremely is variety of a furnace too! universal a Furnace is in many circumstances extra low priced than a gas fire and extra continent, a gas fire can in basic terms warmth the main substantial floor of the domicile and not your mattress rooms. A assembled fire insert/ heater could fee an analogous to run despite if it extremely is an extremely intense high quality fire, like from Napoleon fireplaces. it particularly is mandatory to look into the wood fire at Napoleon very effective and it runs on wood so it particularly is extremely affordable, on occasion loose in case you could chop i t your self! yet i could think of you're able to desire to bypass with a furnace hands down, fireplaces should not be a substantial warmth source, yet for a meeting, romantic activities, or emergency warmth. and to not point out they have the examine formerly You Burn regulations now, so as which you would be able to not have the capacity to apply a hearth a undeniable evening, in case you do you would be breaking the regulation!
2016-12-29 10:10:00 · answer #2 · answered by dobard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Furnaces are usually 70% or so efficient where an open fireplace is about 10%. In a poorly sealed house a fireplace can increase your heating cost because it sucks so much air up the chimney.
2006-11-24 05:40:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fire place is higher. a lot of your heat can go up the chimney. most furnaces now are really more efficient> my aunt had hers changed to furnace . fire place wouldn't heat whole house.
2006-11-24 05:41:17 · answer #4 · answered by Tired Old Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Furnace.
2006-11-24 07:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by Babs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
furnace at 92% plus will save u money , a open flame like a fireplace will cost more ( use a non vented logs )
2006-11-24 05:38:54 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My fireplace lowers my gas bill. I burn logs in it.
In my part of the country you couldn't get by with just a fireplace though.
2006-11-24 05:32:59 · answer #7 · answered by maamu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋