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[patbz]

I've owned 3 homes with wood burning fire places and we used them frequently but they are a lot of work!  One time I fell asleep with fire still burning and felt that if I hadn't awakened pretty quickly I might have been asphixiated. I mentioned the odd sleepy feeling to a coworker the next day and she mentioned she'd lost her sister and brother in law to that!  In our current home we have a gas fireplace, which we quickly adjusted to.

[Coastalcarolina]

@patbz , that is one of the things that made me fearful of them in addition to the fire hazard itself.  We should have installed a carbon monoxide alarm when we had the gas logs.  I am sticking with my electric insert!!!

[PA Mom-mom]

@Coastalcarolina  Both DH and I grew up with wood burning fireplaces and we made sure we had one in the house we built 39 years ago. We use it every Fall and Winter. We make sure to have the chimney professionally cleaned every year, because we like to cook in our fireplace. DH usually takes out any leftover embers each night and puts them in a covered, weighted metal drum on the patio. If the embers are too many, we bank them at the back of the fireplace and make sure the screen is secure in front of the fireplace. Yes, they are lots of work, but we wouldn't have it any other way. During super storm Sandy, we were so happy to have one warm room where we could cook and make coffee.

[sweetee2]

We've have a 48" wood burning fire place.   We have burned wood during the winter every year for 45 years. When we go grocery shopping  we pick up a bundle  of wood so we have a nice little stack. Granted we don't have a roaring fire and we have learned when to let it burn down so we can put the insulated cover over the front so it doesn't suck the heat out of the familyroom.

Back in the day we would go up in the mountains and cut down our own wood. Way back in  the day.

[Coastalcarolina]

@PA Mom-mom @sweetee2 ,  that both sounds sooo wonderful.  Just like I imagined it could be🥰

[Snowpuppy]

I had a wood burner in a condo I had in my younger years and tho it is work it never grew old. 🥰

I'm considering my next move and a wood burner I think is a must have again. Just about everyone up here has a secondary heat source and many people source wood from their own property.

Places that sell seasoned firewood also offer delivery and stack services. I've never cooked in a fireplace but my coworkers who have a wood stoves do.

[Lilysmom1]

We have a Vermont Casting wood stove and a gas fireplace.  In the colder months, we use both and I love them both.  I quilt by the wood stove all winter.  LM

[Jo1313]

We have  a wood burning fireplace in the family room and a wood burning BBQ in the kitchen..

Will never use either!..

I have fear of open flames..I won't ever have an outdoor BBQ.

I had a counter top made for the kitchen BBQ.

The only open flame I will use is sterno in an emergency..and I'd never look away from the flame.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I love having a fireplace with a gas starter.  We have our own wood to burn from trees take down on our property.  DH like the job of splitting them, though I don't like him doing it anymore.  It used to be that we'd only do fires on the  weekends, but since I retired, I have them several times a week throughout winter. I love the ambiance in our home when a fire is burning.  Our fireplace screen has both the metal mesh sliding "curtains" but it also has glass doors.  At some point in the evening we decide to let the fire die down.  By the time we go up to bed, there are no logs remaining, only embers, so we can close the glass doors.

About 25 yrs. ago, or so, our area go hit one March with a terrible ice storm. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power in the region, which meant no one's furnace, water, or toilets were operational.  We, and some neighbors from across the street, were thankful that we had a fireplace.  We piled in our family room lived like pioneers for about 24 hrs.

[ciao_bella]

I have a woodburning fireplace with glass doors since we built the house in 1980.  It's used in the fall and winter every year.  My son will tend to making the fire with wood/logs, but I generally don't do it.   I will, however, buy a few cases of Duraflame logs and, if I'm in the mood for a fire and he's not around, I will light one or two in the fireplace which will last for about 5 or 6 hours.