Talk:Fireplace

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[edit] Possible article expansion

  • Fireplace design
    • Count Rumford - [1]
  • "Fire Art" fireplaces, the new category arguably started by Heat&Glo
  • Fireplace efficiency (woodstoves more efficient)

I am having some serious issues with the only two links within Wikipedia are to carbon monoxide and Kyoto protocol. It seems that this article could be a little politically based, this is not acceptable. You also need to provide sources for air pollution and some testimony that current technology of gas and electric does not come close to duplication of a wood fireplace.

I have an existing fireplace and am making my garage a family room I would like to open the fireplace on the garage side so the I have access to the fireplace in both rooms


>> Discussion of switch mechanism to activate pilot ignition of natural gas fireplace may be useful. I believe it involves a thermocouple at near pilot flame, producing electrical current that completes a circuit when switch is closed thus opening flow for starting fireplace.

[edit] Commercial links gone

Removed commercial links. 68.96.173.125 1 July 2005 19:47 (UTC)

Hey; what's a definition of a commercial link?

[edit] New material on chimneys

Excellent, informative contribution, Chimney Jack. But doesn't most of it belong under chimney?--Dell Adams 06:03, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Back boiler

In the UK many fireplaces had a "back boiler" for heating the water from the fire, however it wasn't the main water heater in the house. Please include that in the main article.

Some chimneys have a gas back boiler that heats the water and powers the central heating, since the chimney itself is used as a flue.

I am new to this - I edited the article to include what I thought was interesting content on a book whick examies the oral storytelling tradition - I was thinking that it was relevant becuse of the history of sitting around a fire and storytelling.

Anyway - I don't think it was proper protocal. I am to only suggest additions or can I truly edit pages? I would really like to contribute. :)

Stacey from [www.fireplacesandwoodstoves.com]

HOW CAN I RESTART THE PILOT LIGHT ?

[edit] Fiction?

Just edit Stacey, but try to provide reliable sources. Also Fireplaces in fiction? This has to be the most useless info I have ever seen. How about some fireplace history, design, etc. You know, some useful information. A mcmurray 22:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

No one replied last time but I have nuked that section. Unencyclopedic drivel, useless and nothing more than a collection of pointless trivia. Fireplaces in fiction? Come on. IvoShandor 16:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do modern electric fireplaces work?

Can how modern electric fireplaces work be added to the article? I have seen some that don't use the "flame-shaped paper streamers wave vertically in the air" mentioned in the article. These did produce a lot of heat, required no chimney, and simply plugged in. I also see them as prizes on The Price is Right. Will (Talk - contribs) 20:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ventless Firplaces

Do these not pose a significant risk of carbon-dioxide/carbon-monoxide gas poisoning in the tightly sealed modern house ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.220.5.220 (talk) 18:54, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dates for Franklin and Rumford

The article says Franklin introduced some improvements in the 1600s, but he lived in the 1700s. Not suer about Rumford, but the article says he was later than Franklin. 203.189.134.3 (talk) 09:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)