
When we bought our house here in Albuquerque, I remember being disappointed seeing a gas fireplace in the family room. A Montana girl, I though heat came from the firewood I had corded myself (albeit, under duress and with my father measuring my work before I was able to go back out and play). A gas fireplace wouldn't afford me the smell, the crackle, or the dancing flame we call God's TV. There's no....work involved! You just flip a switch and you have heat. Wait....what was that? All I have to do is flip a switch to have heat in my family room?! Sold!
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Bunnies are definitely hygge. |
Gas fireplaces are designed to be wasteful.
They take the heat created by that gas flame and shoot it out of your house through a vent or flue somewhere. Out...of...your...house. A fireplace blower however, grabs that precious hygge fuel and sends it back out into the family room.
So go check your fireplace right now. You're looking for a rheostat knob that doesn't control the gas flame or the pilot. Or maybe it's that switch on the wall you always wondered about. That actually happened at my mother's house.
You can also get a fireplace blower kit installed after market. The blower might cost you $100-150 bucks plus the install guy if you think a screwdriver is that thing you use to pry the mouse out of the mousetrap.
Since it's autumn here in the Land of Enchantment, I'll finish with what I think represents New Mexico hygge.
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Sopapillas. Especially immediately after some potent green chile. |
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Seeing these. |
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Fall colors in the Rio Grande bosque. Time to get out your scarves. |
Didn't know about this, I'll look into it when we use our fireplace for the first time since moving in, thanks!
ReplyDelete:-) Hope it works out!
DeleteWhen we first bought our home in Alexandria, we decided to get the (gas) fireplace checked before using it. The tech suggested a blower so we can use it to heat the home, but the thing ran $600-800. So we decided to try it first. Thank God we did, because the thing heated the hell out of our house. No blower needed!
ReplyDeleteYikes! Our local dude said it'd be around $200-250 installed but maybe that's a Home Depot model. I'm glad you checked.
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