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Old 08-29-2007, 01:08 PM
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Make sure you dont put a TV above the fireplace!!!!

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Make sure you dont put a TV above the fireplace!!!!

Is there any specific reason ?

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We wouldn't consider buying a house without a fireplace. It wasn't a problem when our son was little.

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Personally I do really use it either but for resale I would say it can not hurt to have it. I have lots of clients that desire fireplaces.

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Yes, I'd get it... It is one of those options that isn't very easy to add after a house has been built. Lots of upgrades are easy to do after the fact.

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The heat from the fireplace can seriously damage an LCD or PLASMA tv.

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The heat from the fireplace can seriously damage an LCD or PLASMA tv.
depends. we recently did this - we put a thermometer on the wall where the TV would go and kept it there for hours while we had a roaring fire. the wall never got above 80 degrees - i think the recommendation is no higher than 90.

anyway, we ended up, for various reasons, not hanging it on the wall above the fireplace, but from the ceiling about 10" out from the wall. it doesn't even get warm.

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Wow! This forum is great. I just bumped into it this morning and I thought it would be a great place to get feedback and so posted a query .. and Voila! great responses within 3 hours.

Thank you guys. I guess we will go in for now. I hope the builder will accommodate this upgrade at this stage while they are just about to dig.

When we first went to sign up, we said no to a fireplace upgrade without considering resale value. We had great plans of mounting a 50" LCD on that wall and making that the focus of the room. (All of us our TV addicts :-( )

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If you are buying in a tract home development, good luck in getting the builder to make this change at this stage of the game. We just wanted to change our kitchen sink in a new home we bought in Las Vegas, and they wouldn't even consider it even though the kitchen was not even constructed yet. If you're building custom, you'll have a much better chance of adding it.

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If you are buying in a tract home development, good luck in getting the builder to make this change at this stage of the game. We just wanted to change our kitchen sink in a new home we bought in Las Vegas, and they wouldn't even consider it even though the kitchen was not even constructed yet. If you're building custom, you'll have a much better chance of adding it.
We put in a request to add the fire place option to our sales rep.

He says it is possible if the plans have not yet been submitted for City approval.

Hope we can get the request through.

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Old 08-30-2007, 01:59 PM
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We put in a request to add the fire place option to our sales rep.

He says it is possible if the plans have not yet been submitted for City approval.

Hope we can get the request through.
Good to hear. Keep us updated.

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