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A fireplace grate blower is a great way of getting more heat and more performance out of your fire without having to buy expensive equipment or take on extensive jobs. Fireplace grate blowers are very simple little units that fit at the bottom or front of your hearth and basically suck in are on one side, and blow it back out on the other. This is very simply device and shouldn’t cost you too much money. The only difficulty in their construction is making sure that they are sufficiently heat proof to survive the temperatures produced by your fire.
If you use your fire to heat your entire home and your existing fireplace meets your requirements sufficiently, then you will probably no need a fireplace grate blower. However, if you are like most people, then you will need to augment your fireplace with other heating methods, especially in the winter, because your fireplace is simply incapable of producing the heat that is required to sufficiently and adequately heat your entire home.
Fireplace grate blowers do two things that allow you to get a lot more heat out of your fire. First of all, they will provide extra oxygen to your fire. When fire gets more oxygen, it will burn fuel at a faster pace, and more completely and efficiently, it will produce less smoke, but will produce a lot more heat. This allows you to heat more of your home and have a greater impact when trying to raise the temperature. The only down side is that you will go through more fuel, but most people are willing to provide more fuel for more heat, especially when they realise that the fuel they do put in will give out more heat because burn efficiency is increased.
The other advantage that a fireplace grate blower gives you when trying to make your home warmer, is that it will set up convection currents in your home. Convection currents are systems that are created naturally to transfer heat to cold areas. This is important as you want your fire to be fed cool air so that it can heat it up, rather than all the hot air staying near the fire and cool air everywhere else. A fireplace grate blower will suck air in from the bottom of your fireplace near to the ground. As we know, hot air rises and so the coolest air in the room will be closest to the ground. The blower sucks this in and blows it back out once it is hot, where it will rise and cooler air will again be pushed down and sucked in to the fire. Fireplace grate blowers therefore increase the efficiency of your fire in a number of ways.
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