How To Use A Double Sided Fireplace With Glass Doors

Glass fireplace doors overview photo by kolin smith.

How to use a double sided fireplace with glass doors.

If you have a firebox made of rough textured material such as fieldstone you. 4 sided custom made glass fireplaces. Sleek and contemporary fireplaces. One more awesome point you could do on a portion of the rate is a four sided gas fire place.

All the heat will go against the glass. Have an experienced mason check the. Always keep the screen mesh on your fireplace closed when using the fireplace to guard against. Actually it if you use glass doors on one side you need to have glass doors on the other side unless you always burn the fire with the doors open.

Depending on the type of glass in the doors some heat still radiates through the doors into the house. Cheap doors use tempered glass which breaks if you close the doors when a fire is burning. When burning gas logs in a wood burning fireplace the glass doors should always be fully open when the gas logs are burning. The suitable product for this kind of fire place is colored glass which could confine the fire place right to the ceiling if the home owner likes so.

If you close the doors and the other side is open the side with the doors closed will act like the back side of a single sided fireplace. Installing a fireplace door is simply a matter of fitting the door unit into the firebox opening and attaching it to the masonry.