Radiant Heat Fireplace Insert
Placement of logs for max heat from a fireplace?
My mother has a fireplace with metal insert, vents at the bottom with fans that create a convection to a vent above the fireplace.
I place the logs in lengthwise. My sister always complains about this and says I should them in with the ends showing to the front.
I say that as the logs burn, more radiant heat will be emitted if the logs are lengthwise rather than endwise. An exception being to the point that the logs have degraded to coals and then I don’t think it matters.
As she’s too lazy to build a fire herself, the fire is built by me with the logs lengthwise.
I know this is probably an unscientific question, but what’s everyone’s opinion on this?
your sis is nuts, andirons have always been designed to have the logs placed across them …
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