By Laily Savitri

A ventless fireplace is a fireplace that does not require a chimney or flue and doesn’t burn wood; instead it either uses natural gas or gel as a fuel. Coal and wood produce smoke and soot which create dangerous sparks, pollute the air, blacken the room and deposit creosote in the chimney.

Ventless fireplaces are great for cool summer nights as well as for bitter cold winter days. You can heat any room and create an ambience in a basement, sun room, glazed porch or any room without a fireplace. A ventless fireplace is also a great way to improve the décor of any room in your household, they can virtually be installed anywhere, including corners and even hung from the wall.

There are a few things to keep in mind when choosing a ventless fireplace, you never ever install a ventless fireplace in a room that has less SQFT (square feet) than the minimum amount required by the ventless fireplace manufacture. Even though it’s a ventless fireplace and vents out into the room they are designed to work in specific minimum size rooms. But, never run a ventless fireplace for longer than 6 hours straight or when you aren’t at home.

These are 2 types of ventless fireplaces based on the way they are being installed:

Wall-mounted Ventless Fireplaces

As the name suggests the wall-mounted ventless fireplaces are fixed on the walls. You require no construction work involving demolition of walls, building a chimney, arranging fireplace screens, buying loads of wood, wood carriers and doing so much more work.

They are built with several attractive designs such as arched tops and run on gel fuel. Wall mounted ventless fireplaces are ideal for any type of residence condos, apartments or cabins. They are hassle free and burn on monoxide free gel fuel and are odorless.

Ventless Fireplace Inserts

Ventless fireplace inserts are a cost effective solution for expensive inoperable gas and wood fireplaces. You can convert your smoke and soot belching wood fireplace into a maintenance free ventless fireplace with suitable fireplace inserts.The fireplace inserts work on gel. The size of the insert depends upon the size of your wood fireplace.

Ventless fireplace inserts save your valuable heat from going out through the chimney and divert it entirely, almost 99.9%, to your room. When you use a ventless fireplace insert, you become free from all the hassles associated with the wood fireplace.