The history of vent less natural gas fireplaces

There came a time when people started tiring of the old wood fireplace, building the fire, stacking the wood and all the necessary work that goes into maintenance of the heat. Skip your shift and you run the risk of your flame burning out. Vent less natural gas fireplaces were the natural successors. Read on to find out more

Don’t get me wrong, fireplaces are great, they add ambiance to every home but there are a few aspects of using a fireplace as heating for your home that really make it a rare occurrence. So one day a bright spark thought it would be great to model a fireplace around the same principle used for gas stoves, where the gas was released from a valve. The size of the flame was determined by the amount of gas released.

To make them more appealing some logs were added to the ensemble to make it look as though the blue flames were the centre of a glowing fire. As time went on the logs looked more and more true to life, these lovely weathered logs never needed to be replaced or topped up and still created the warmth and atmosphere of a bona fide fire!

So similar were these gas fires they too had chimneys! Necessary for a wood fire because of the smoke and for the gas that produces carbon dioxide. While much of the heat seems to get sucked through these long tunnels, a chimney presence, where there is fire has never been questioned. Until now that is.

Thanks to the combination of ingenuity and carbon dioxide sensors vent less natural gas fireplaces were born where all of the heat from the gas flame gets distributed through the room with an absolute minimal loss of heat. The only drawback to this apparatus is that it doesn’t have the look of a natural fire but plenty of the warmth!