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Gas challenges wood as fuel ® ® ® The fireplace has a less practical and more mystical motivation than an extra bathroom. This is especially true since the introduction of the more efficient units that no longer suck room air up the chimney and leave your back cold in the draught. air through the hollow walls, warmed it The first improvement was the Heatilator ... a metal insert with a double wall that fitted into the fireplace. Among homeowners without a fireâ€" place, it is the single most wanted addiâ€" tion. Fireplaces and bathroom renovaâ€" tions are both able to return almost the full investment on resale of the home. ‘*Music hath charm to soothe the savâ€" age breast", and so does an open fire. The civilized veneer has no defense against the lure of a campfire or the romantic tales told by freeâ€"spirited cowâ€" bovs or Aussies in the Outback. Openings at the bottom sucked room Wt Canada‘s Fastest JANET HALE* 844 s Ts W K Air from the outside was ducted directly into the firebox from the outside and that allowed for the incorporation of some ancient European principles about stoves that provided a slow burn of, not only the wood, but also the gases proâ€" duced. Next came the zero clearance fireâ€" place that used the principle of the Heatilator and isolated the fire from the outside surface of the metal shell with an air space. The outside of the unit remained relaâ€" tively cool and could be placed within an inch or two of combustible walls with no need for mansonry. Special doubleâ€"wall metal chimney lengths were constructed up, and blew it out at the top through & couple of vents that could be over the mantel or even in an adjoining room. Heat was still rushing up the chimney so glass doors were fitted to seal off the room from the chimnev. Real Estate Company NICK MONACHESE 4 1 Broker 5718 Sales boomed and all of the drawâ€" backs of the old fireplace were welcome ... except for cutting wood, storing wood, carrying wood, removing ashes and keeping the ever present and dangerous creosote from accumulating inside the them chimnevy could now be run the middle of the house in closets or wherever. This meant the fireplace could now be positioned anywhere at all in the house without regard for a massive masonry ney chimney. Manufacturers of fireplaces and gas utilities were quick to capitalize on those consumers who were weary of being which needed blu af idition to those who had resiste They. too. were zero clearance and the I} : from the start. Apartment and condo dwellers are d examples of a market waiting to be viced by an efficient, clean, and ealing fireplace fuelled by natural U of wood and drawers of ashes, in n ire certainly efficient and cleanâ€" g â€" which appeals to the conserâ€" â€" but the cleaner it burns, the support for about 0O 1ave In whi 1zation no heavy base to support f1 th the House . a blue fire eramic lo th een m Around And th thr ency nt bri a hearth and chim T T n nt by the it be th he m through an M ind up through n nl J it nothins ntr nted by 1f himn ercom it Nn has the In ind The air is heated slightly as it passes the warm inner pipe, providing more effiâ€" cient combustion. So now apartment dwellers cannot only place the fireplace anywhere near an outside wall (to accommodate the vent), but without any concern about erecting a double wall chimney pipe to the roof. A more immediate concern is carbon monoxide (CO) which is always present in the air. Dorothy Parker, back in the ‘40s, wrote this piece of black verse, and she was not referring to CO, but rather gas from utilities that has a distinctive odor that has been added for easy detection of leaks "Guns aren‘s lawful, nooses give; Gas smells awful; might as well live." Maybe she didn‘t know that CO, on the other hand, is colorless, tasteless, and odorless, and just as deadly. Even in small doses it causes headaches, dizziâ€" ness. weakness. nausea, or loss of muscle the In blood. but th In it busy ireas as under bout 3% ontrol ath the the high a 6 That perce ften )t M ount nc of other things can also produce mptoms so overexposure to CO not suspected. Unfortunately, sults from higher concentrations r. It is estimated people who live untry have very little CO in their percentage increases in smokers nd for those who work in such underground parking facilities or lowntown intersections it can be ee "Excessive" Page RE 28) () 1ve citv dweller has