Jane, as usual, has a slideshow. It’s not much during the day, but it’s very convincing at night. Has an on-off switch for putting out a mild heat, or not; it sits right in the original fireplace, plugs into the wall. And artificial fireplaces have come a long, long way from the concrete logs they used to use. Now they’re LED, and energy-efficient. The variety we got, should you wonder, is Dimplex, and if anybody wants to know, e-mail me and I’ll tell you what company we used: they’re super nice. We priced getting the fireplace converted to gas, and fainted: but since I’m allergic to woodsmoke and ash, and Jane’s sensitive to petroleum fumes, this was the perfect compromise. So we agreed that this would be our Christmas present to each other, and we’d get it early so as to be able to enjoy it all season. If you’ve got a dead fireplace you’re having to cover up, this is a reasonable way to restore it to niceness. And if you live in the south and don’t need the heat, the heat is an off-on switch at the top of the unit. For 50.00 more you can get a electric Kracklebox, which sits behind it and emits a fire-crackle sound, of all things. We’ll get that next year, likely. Our fireplace is now a pretty thing and not an eyesore we have to decorate around. The funny thing is, it’s so real we keep moving flammable things away from it…just a subconscious conviction it’s hot. 😉
Our new fireplace arrived…
by CJ | Nov 4, 2009 | Journal | 6 comments
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And it’s seasonally appropriate! I might mention this to one of my friends who lives Upcountry, at about the 2000 foot level. It rarely drops below 50 degrees, but they do have a nonfunctioning fireplace in the family room. Something like this might be a nice thing for that.
Question: I went to check out the slide show on Jane’s site (very cool pix, by the way, especially with the pirate and kitty toys!), and when I tried to log on using this id and password, it said there was an error. I thought I’d read that the same id/pw would get us on all the Closed Circle sites? Am I trippin’? Thanks!
When I still had my gibberish generated passwords, I had a different one for each site. When I went to change them, I made both of my passwords the same, but had to do it for each site, which leads me to think that the password is site specific. Which seems peculiar. 🙂
Password changing: go to Site Admin under the Login (Jane’s site) or Meta (CJ’s site) heading. This takes you to your account in WordPress. From there, go to Profile, and within Profile to New Password, near the bottom of the page. Type in a new password, then click Update Profile. Hopefully this will work!
If you can’t find your original password and therefore can’t login to get to your WordPress account page, then I believe you can enter in your email address and have them send you a new gibberish passowrd, which will get you in to change your password to something that makes sense. 🙂
Thanks!
Real wood fireplace insert here (Vermont castings Winterwarm, an actual Fireplace by itself is a waste of wood, with todays tech..) along with a second stove, a Vermont Castings Vigilant. Both are “catalytic” units, nearly no visible smoke when up to temp and cranking away. We heat almost exclusively with wood, although the house does have a “normal” oil fired forced air heating system as well. For when we are too lazy, or not home to tend the fires.. Nothing like the ambience of a nice fire burning, real Or simulated. Sort of like crouching around the fire in the Cave, with the dog.