Heating stoves are a great way to lower home-heating bills while providing proper heat for your home. With a heating stove, you can save money by concentrating your home-heating budget on the rooms you use the most. You can also add duct work to your stove to pipe heat throughout your home. If you’re ready […]
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Caring for your woodstoves
Woodstoves provide an excellent source of heat for your home. They’re incredibly efficient, the wood to fuel them is cheap – sometimes as low as the cost of your labor – and they add beauty and ambiance to your home. On top of all of that, woodstoves are also very low maintenance. With regular cleanings […]
Tired of hauling firewood? Consider a pellet stove
Your wood-burning stove or fireplace brings warmth, comfort and ambiance to your home, and saves you money on your home heating bills. But using wooden logs to help heat your home comes with many inconveniences. Either you spend months chopping, stacking and splitting firewood, or if you purchase your firewood, it can only be purchased […]
Heating your home during a power outage emergency
Power outages bring many inconveniences, but during cold-weather months, a power outage can be downright dangerous. When the power goes out during the dead of winter, particular if it’s out for a long period of time, heating your home can become a major concern. Your home-heating appliances can become vital during a power outage to […]
The Importance of Properly Seasoned Firewood for Wood burning Appliances
FireSide Hearth & Home knows nothing is better than a warm and cozy fire inside when those cold Michigan nights lurk right outside your door. However, we want you to know when you use a wood burning appliance, regardless of where you live, it is extremely important to use properly seasoned wood. Anatomy of Wood […]
Pellet Stoves – What You Need to Know
Pellet stoves are a low-cost and eco-friendly alternative to wood stoves and fireplaces. Pellet stoves use wood byproducts from sawmills that burn cleaner than traditional wood. Most environmentalists consider pellet stoves carbon neutral because the pellets are created from trees that lived off carbon, so they cancel each other out. Pellet stoves can be used […]
Choosing the Right Fuel Source for Heating Your Home
Choosing the right fuel source (wood, gas, or electric) to heat your home is an important step in picking a fireplace. There are many factors to take into consideration when choosing your fuel source. FireSide Hearth and Home offers electric, natural gas, and wood burning fireplaces for inside the home. Before you get started, let’s […]