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A Closer Look at Colonial Fireplaces
Fireplace brands are numerous. There are many of them to choose for your fireplace needs. We know that you need help when it comes to the many brands that there are. We have provided you with this article all about colonial fireplaces, to help you along the way.Even around the 1700s the traditional colonial fireplace was becoming replaced by wood burning stoves and the open fire that had cooked for and warmed humankind since the beginning of time was relegated to the yearly campout. Around this time is when the fireplace became more of a design feature, a place above which to have a mantle and above that, a panting, family portrait or mirror. Fireplaces weren't particularly effective at most points in human history, with more of the heated air leaving through the chimney than heating the house. But it wasn't until fireplaces started to become mere decoration that we saw just how inefficient fireplaces can be. Very early American fireplaces were based on an English model that had remained mostly unchanged since the Dark Ages. These were very primitive and inefficient fireplaces with little more than a hood with a pair of side jambs and a little hole for smoke to escape through. Ben Franklin invented the flue damper in the mid 1700s to help keep warm air inside and cold air out, while still letting the smoky air leave through the smoke flue. Before this innovation, a cold and unused fireplace was merely closed off with a very ineffective stove board. Many colonial fireplaces used more than ten cords of wood each winter for heating and cooking purposes. Even with some of that time's innovations, the majority of heated air was lost up the chimney. Like the campfires of today, people would huddle around the household fires, baking on one side and freezing on their back sides.
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