Always keep your fireplace doors open while a fire is burning.
Glass doors on wood burning fireplace open or closed.
This is simply not true.
Keeping my fireplace doors closed will make my fire burn longer.
99 of the time your fireplace doors should be open when you are burning a fire.
A wood stove uses a pyro ceramic glass that is resistant to thermal shock.
A fireplace uses tempered glass that is resistant to physical shock.
Glass fireplace doors are made to radiate heat throughout the room.
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.
Heat is not meant to be radiated through tempered glass doors.
First open the flue.
It s recommended that glass doors on a wood burning fireplace are left open during a fire.
Keep in mind the glass used with a wood stove is different from that used with a fireplace.
That is why we do not recommend closing the glass doors on a fireplace while there is a fire.
In the off chance you have.
Make sure anything that can burn.
The better the airflow is the better and longer your fire will burn.
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.
At chimney safety institute of america we commonly get asked about whether homeowners should leave the glass doors on their fireplace open or closed.
Closing the doors will stifle the fire not keep it going.
Some common myths about fireplace doors.
This will help you save on heating and cooling costs.