Lee wrote:
Idle question while I'm house hunting. My current row house has a wood
burning fireplace that I have literally never used - I don't want to
deal with lighting a fire and then worrying about it when I want to go
upstairs (and trust me, I'm a worrier). However I do like the *look* of
the fireplace.

I've looked at several houses recently, and thought that if they had
regular fp's I might convert that to gas since I like the idea of being
able to turn it on and off. But some of the houses don't have any fp's
at all. Is it possible to put a decent looking "after market" fireplace
in a house, without having to do a major renovation? Something that
doesn't look like the "fireplace in a box" things that they sell on HSN?
I wouldn't be using it for heating a house (except maybe if there was a
power outage), but as a supplemental heater, sort of like a pretty space
heater.

I guess I'd entertain the idea of electric as well if they look decent.
The last electric one I saw quite a while ago was only a step above a
fan with orange tissue paper!

I haven't even gone to look at any yet. Just thought I'd ask here to see
if this is even practical to consider, or to find out what I should look
for if I go looking.

Thanks
Hi,
Gas FP insert is common. Hope it'll be easier for you to run gas line
and power to it. Even there is remote control for gas FP(on and off, fan
control)