It's mostly the cold winter nights when a fireplace in your house lights up and doles out warmth in the vicinity it is situated in. It is a basic necessity in every house, particularly in the cold countries, where a fireplace serves as the heating element in a part of a room. But then again, a fireplace is restricted to provide heat around the place it is situated in, and rarely the entire room. On the contrary, if you see the concept of an air conditioner when installed in a room, it caters to the cooling effect in the whole room and not only in a specific corner of the room. So, can't the same happen with the fireplace, one may think? Well, yes! With an electrical appliance called fireplace blower there can be an efficient and quick warm up in a whole given room.
What is a Fireplace Blower?
It is a heater system, more of a device, which helps to spread warm air to emerge out of the furnace evenly throughout the entire room or more rooms in a house. When one uses the fireplace with elements like wood, gas, fuel and things like that, the warm and hot air that emerges out of the fireplace elapses by means like chimney or so. But, if a blower is connected to the ends of such means, what would happen is, instead of passing through the chimney, the same elapsing bulk of heat would radiate through the blower into the surroundings of your room.
Working of a Fireplace Blower
To help support the above mentioned statement, all you have to do is, purchase a kit consisting of basic set of tubes. These tubes are connected to the fireplace inserts from where the hot air is expelled from the fireplace throughout the room. Along with this kit comes the blower fans which is jibed into the heating system sprays. These sprays blow the hot air from the fireplace into several parts of the room. In the working, it is observed that the blower expends the fire to heat up a cast iron plenum, which in turn, blows the hot air in the entire room. Also, the fans are generally placed in front of the fireplace or at times in the doorway of a room. When the location of these blowers is such, they literally help in distributing hot air throughout the room and also into another room. Speaking of installation, it takes about 30 minutes to install the whole set-up. Once the blower is set-up, the fan begins to draw in cool air from the surroundings and expels it in the plenum so that the wood burning in the fireplace can heat it up and further on distribute the same air throughout the room. This working technique is really simple and ingenious. Firstly, the blower comfortably fits into any fireplace and secondly, it has a variable speed control which maintains tranquility around.
On a personal note, I find this technology really mind-blowing. Moreover, if you look at it, fireplace blowers have become customary to have it reinforced into a fireplace in many homes across the globe. They are just designed to distribute heat so that it neither affects the combustion rate of the generating heat out of the fireplace nor affect the quality of the same too. So, today, just in case you are looking out for an appliance which can heat up your entire room, a fireplace blower would be on the recommended list. However, there are a variety of blowers that are available to suit every type and style in this category. Mostly, in today's times, fireplaces are equipped with blowers already, thus the need of installing one doesn't rise. On the other hand, some fireplaces needs an installation procedure. Well, for that you need a professional hand to help you out and also a nearby power supply to ease out the entire installation.
On an end note, here's a quickie. Depending on the size, model and make of the blower, the cost of it is anywhere from $75 to $100. So, the more you spend, the better the performance you will experience.
