Energy Saving Tips For Your Fireplace

Using a wood burning fireplace in the winter in conjunction with your furnace is a great way to reduce your overall energy consumption. The following tips can help you reduce heat loss from your fireplace.

• Keep your fireplace damper closed unless a fire is burning. Keeping the damper open is like keeping a window wide open during the winter; it allows warm air to go right up the chimney.

• If you never use your fireplace, plug and seal the chimney flue.

• Check the seal on the fireplace flue damper and make it as snug as possible.