Doors on a fireplace that use tempered glass are more susceptible to shatter due to high temperatures from a fire and so it s recommended to always keep fireplace doors open when having a fire.
Wood burning fireplace doors open or closed.
You can use a wood burning stove with the door open but doing so will lose the control of the air flow into the stove making it operate less efficiently and sending more heat up the chimney rather than out into the room.
Doors can only be closed if there is no fire burning.
It s recommended that glass doors on a wood burning fireplace are left open during a fire.
When a fire is burning your fireplace can reach temperatures up to 1200 degrees.
Knowing how a wood stove works is key to understanding why using your stove you should have the door closed at all times.
Glass doors should be fully open when starting a fire and when the fire is burning strongly.
Wood burning stoves are not designed to be used with the door open.
If your fireplace doors are shut oxygen cannot reach the flames.
First open the flue.
Fireplaces are notoriously inefficient because they suck your heated room air up the chimney and replace it with cold air from outside your home through cracks in the doors and windows.
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And be sure you re keeping an eye on that wood fire.
If the doors are closed you are losing all of the fireplace s heat.
Closing your fireplace doors doesn t make your fire burn longer.
When burning gas logs in a wood burning fireplace the glass doors should always be fully open when the gas logs are burning.
Build a fire with dry seasoned firewood and kindling or fire starter bricks then close the metal mesh screen but leave the glass doors open.
A wood fire left untended isn t safe.
Make sure anything that can burn.
Keep your doors open like this ez door steel shown to the right.
It also makes your wood last much longer.
The premium mesh panels located behind the doors should always be closed and glass doors opened when you have a fire going.
Allowing your fireplace doors to remain open will promote better airflow.
The glass doors should be closed as the fire dies down to minimize the amount of room air going up the fireplace chimney.
This results in a dull blaze with little heat output.
Burning a fire with the doors closed gives you more controlled combustion and drastically reduces heat loss.
Fireplace doors should always be kept open while a fire is burning.
Oxygen is a key element in healthy burning fires.
You can close the glass doors on the fireplace after the firewood has turned into ash or small coals.