Does Anyone Use An Electric Fireplace?
Does anyone use an electric fireplace? If so, is your electric bill huge? Does it warm a room? How often do you use it? We’d like to eventually have a gas one put in, but we’re thinking about an electric one for the time being….?
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September 30, 2009 @ 9:20 am
The electric ones are OK. The bill? Well it depends on how much you use it. I found it doesn’t warm a room as well as you’d like.
September 30, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
no not really just watch out of what kind u buy
September 30, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
I had one of these in an condo I lived in for several years. It was worthless as a source of heat so I never used it enough to notice any difference in the electric bill. I’d say it would heat an area about 10 feet in radius from it (half a room). It’s purpose was spending an evening on the couch with your chippee, in front the fireplace. Flipping a switch is a hell of alot more convenient than stacking wood and lighting a fire (not to mention cleaning a real fireplace).
I used to have a real fireplace in a different place I lived. I’d estimate the heat output of an electric is about half that of a real one. Neither were particularly good at heating a room.
If you want to heat a room, I’d suggest a wood burning stove or a pellet burner instead.
October 1, 2009 @ 12:28 am
Hi,
Yes I have an electric fire place, including a fan and orange lights wafting aroung behind the screen.
It’s a pretty looking one, we dont use much, it;s there for emergencies, but it does look the part,