For many people a fireplace represents simpler times. A fireplace evokes feelings of family and warmth. Many people remember their family and friends gathered around a fireplace, laughing, singing and telling stories.

In today's hectic-paced lifestyle, many people just do not have the time to deal with a wood burning fireplace. Aside from chopping or buying wood, there's also starting and maintaining the fire. Then after the fire is out, you still have the ash and unburned logs to clean up. People today just don't seem to have the time, patience, energy, or desire for all of that work. That's what makes gas fireplaces a such a great choice.

Gas fireplaces come in wide-ranging styles, from Victorian to contemporary. The range of colors is huge, such as cherry, mahogany, oak, pine, white, antique white, black, and many designer colors. Some gas fireplaces are used primarily for decoration ando produce a small amount of heat. Although many others, are used as a primary or secondary source of heat.

Gas fireplaces are available as vented, vent-free and direct vent. A gas line must be installed and run to the fireplace. Direct vent fireplaces do not require a chimney, but are vented with a specialized pipe that goes through the wall to the outside. Vent-Free fireplaces do not require a chimney or any type of venting and can be installed most anywhere since they do not require venting. Vented fireplaces are vented through standard or specialized chimneys.

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