Allowing your fireplace doors to remain open will promote better airflow.
Wood burning fireplace doors open or closed.
Doors can only be closed if there is no fire burning.
It also makes your wood last much longer.
This results in a dull blaze with little heat output.
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When a fire is burning your fireplace can reach temperatures up to 1200 degrees.
Glass doors should be fully open when starting a fire and when the fire is burning strongly.
Doors on a fireplace that use tempered glass are more susceptible to shatter due to high temperatures from a fire and so it s recommended to always keep fireplace doors open when having a fire.
Fireplaces are notoriously inefficient because they suck your heated room air up the chimney and replace it with cold air from outside your home through cracks in the doors and windows.
Build a fire with dry seasoned firewood and kindling or fire starter bricks then close the metal mesh screen but leave the glass doors open.
Wait for it to have burned out before heading to bed.
A wood fire left untended isn t safe.
Fire administration usfa states that.
Keep your doors open like this ez door steel shown to the right.
Fireplace doors should always be kept open while a fire is burning.
Tempered glass that comes standard on most fireplace doors will shatter once it reaches temperatures of 450 degrees.
The glass doors should be closed as the fire dies down to minimize the amount of room air going up the fireplace chimney.
And be sure you re keeping an eye on that wood fire.
Make sure anything that can burn.
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Wood burning stoves are not designed to be used with the door open.
If the doors are closed you are losing all of the fireplace s heat.
Closing your fireplace doors doesn t make your fire burn longer.
You can close the glass doors on the fireplace after the firewood has turned into ash or small coals.
First open the flue.
Burning a fire with the doors closed gives you more controlled combustion and drastically reduces heat loss.
You can use a wood burning stove with the door open but doing so will lose the control of the air flow into the stove making it operate less efficiently and sending more heat up the chimney rather than out into the room.
Oxygen is a key element in healthy burning fires.
It s recommended that glass doors on a wood burning fireplace are left open during a fire.
If your fireplace doors are shut oxygen cannot reach the flames.