Converting Your Wood Fireplace to Propane

That big, inefficient wood-burning fireplace sitting in your living room provides an ideal opportunity to convert to propane and say good-bye to dealing with wood and the overall mess!

With a wood fireplace, we all know the deal. In order to be able to sit down and relax by the fire, first you have to:

• buy and/or chop firewood
• go out into the cold (and maybe rain or snow) to bring it into the house
• build the fire
• wait for it to ignite
• wait for it to get the room warm
• deal with the mess of soot and ashes when the fire is done

The Pros of Converting

Get the heat without the hassle. When you have a propane fireplace, you don’t have to do any of that! Simply flip a switch, or use a remote control, and you have a fire.

No work afterwards, either. With a propane fireplace, when you’re ready to leave the room, it’s just as easy as starting the fire. Turn off the fireplace. That’s it. No smoke, no embers, no ashes, no soot, no problem.

Installation is also easy as pie. To install a wood burning fireplace, you’d face weeks of work, dirt and mess in your home, and thousands of dollars in costs. With a propane fireplace or fireplace insert, you’ll spend less money and installation is easier and much, much cleaner.

You have choices. There’s more than one kind of propane fireplace. There’s a propane fireplace insert, which is installed along with gas logs into an existing wood burning fireplace. There are also freestanding propane fireplace structures and stoves which are installed on a blank wall. These are ideal if you don’t have a fireplace in the room or in your house.

Propane is an easier fuel than wood. That brings us to propane, which you’ll need if you’re installing a propane fireplace. Total Fuel Service can provide that as well with our dependable propane delivery! And if you sign up for our automatic propane delivery and tank monitoring, you’ll rest easy knowing that you can have a fire in your fireplace without worry about having enough propane.

A few other key points:

• A propane fireplace is ideal if you are preparing your home to age in place or making postretirement improvements
• When you start looking at the cost of purchasing wood versus buying propane, your cost factor actually is really close to the same.
• Propane is easily accessible!
• Looking to add more fireplaces to your home? If your building an addition or simply looking to heat up another space, like a bedroom, another fireplace adds the same cozy ambiance to more areas in the home and can easily be installed at the same time of your original conversion.