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10-08-2007, 11:36 AM
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We use our fireplace usually when we have guests over around the holidays. Even though it may be "shorts" weather outside, nothing says "happy holidays" like the crackling of a fireplace, talking to friends and sipping brandy and red wine.
I guess our fireplace is more for "show" than for "go".
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10-08-2007, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Tony Brunolesci
Yeegads...I just got a really rather foul breath of outside air polluted with toxins from a fire burning in somebody's fireplace. In a Los Angeles, why do people see it fit to do this sort of thing, when the air pollution is bad enough, it's not particularly cold here, and a nice gas illuminated faux porcelain and fiberglass set can be had for not a huge amount of money?
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Same reason people burn candles... it gives a nice homie feeling to the house.  |
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10-09-2007, 02:46 AM
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Why not just sit in a garage with a car running, or is the exhaust of burning wood not as toxic?
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10-09-2007, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Tony Brunolesci
Why not just sit in a garage with a car running, or is the exhaust of burning wood not as toxic?
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All depends... Fireplaces run the gamut from the standard "Open" Chimney to very sophisticated EPA stage II certified units with catalytic converters that have extremely low particle emission...
As with cars, fireplace technology continues to evolve, pellets, corn husks, natural gas, alcohol gel, etc... so it would be unfair to lump them all together. |
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10-10-2007, 12:14 PM
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It's nice when it rains. My parents would go into hippie mode on rainy days, putting a fire in the fireplace, burning incense and putting Crosby Stills & Nash on the hifi. Luckily, rainy days were few and far between.
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10-10-2007, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by suncat
It's nice when it rains. My parents would go into hippie mode on rainy days, putting a fire in the fireplace, burning incense and putting Crosby Stills & Nash on the hifi. Luckily, rainy days were few and far between.
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I was with you until you said "Crosby Stills and Nash". You lost me after that. |
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10-10-2007, 04:19 PM
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We moved here 13 years ago from the East Coast. I thought it was funny when someone said that yeah, we have fireplaces here, you build a fire in your fireplace, and then you open the windows!
M.
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