I never really planned on using the fireplace when we bought this old house. I thought it added a nice touch to the house though and we did end up using it once or twice a year. There is something about a fireplace at Christmas that ads a nice touch. However, it is kind of a pain to stock a lot of firewood. Besides, feel that burning wood adds a lot to our carbon footprint so we usually just use the furnace and leave the fireplace alone. Yes, I know the furnace also leave a carbon footprint but it can be minimalized. However, last week I didn’t care much about carbon footprints when the furnace went out. I called a furnace repair company but they could not come out for two days. Thankfully, we had a little bit of firewood left over so I started the fireplace up. I had my doubts that the fireplace was strong enough to warm the entire house. We had never asked it to do that before. However, it actually did a fairly good job keeping us warm. True, the heat was a bit uneven, and we had to get up at night to add more firewood, but at least we didn’t freeze and the pipes didn’t break. When the furnace repair company finally arrived they explained that several other peoples’ furnaces had also gone out unexpectedly. We were lucky that we had a fireplace to fall back on because some people had to go to hotels or buy several space heaters. They were also able to get our furnace up and running that day.

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