The house has nothing no chimney no basement??
Yes gas in the heating!

Our home is all electric, but we have two wood burning fireplaces that we use to heat during the winter,otherwise we could not afford the electric bill. However due to burning daily, our clothes and home always smell like a campfire. Anyone found an effective way to counter that odor in the home?
I thank you for your answer, I love the smell too, but when we go to work or school some people are made ill by it. Looks like we just have to make our apologies and go on. Thanks again.
Great ideas, thanks.
Thank you so much Hunter and Debbie, you know where I am at, most of the time, and why I am concerned about others. The humidifier sounds like a great solution, could you find out exactly what your sister uses, some things are harmful to breathe.
Hunter, great to hear from you again, might just give the beans a shot at distracting folks, lol.
We have our chimney professionally cleaned, it is covered, and the wood is always dry and ready to burn. Flew is always properly open. Even with all that because we must build a fire daily, and keep it going, our home and clothing smells like whatever wood we are burning. I do appreciate all of your kind and wise safety tips as well. Agape’ my brothers and sisters.

I am trying to hang a 50 lb. mirror over my gas fireplace, over the fireplace is wood paneling, I’m afraid i’ll drill a hole into chimney and smoke will come billowing through -also afraid of splintering wood. HELP, please.

It uses a 4" vent to the top of the chimney and a 4" intake that runs part way up the chimney.

I am interested to look at a house that was once a 2 family, but the previous owners converted it into a single family. There are still 2 different meters for both heat and electric. One is gas one is oil(I have no idea how or why) Would like to turn it into one heating system and one electric…Does that make sense to do so? Otherwise wouldn’t I recieve 2 heat bills and 2 electric bills, which would therefore cost me more money because of utility taxes and "delivery charges"? If there were a chimney, I would install a pellet stove, but there isn’t, and I still have the problem with the 2 zoned electric. Any ideas on this? The property is a steal otherwise I am just in the dark as to whether or not 2 zoned utilities are not a good idea…
Location: Boston, MA

I bought a house and was told that the fireplace is gas and wood burning. There is a gas line in the fire place that turns on, and the chimney has a flu that you can keep open or closes. I have ceramic logs but when I turn the gas on with logs in there, the logs turn black and it doesn’t really kick out that much heat. Am i using it wrong or is it just a wood burning fire place with a gas igniter????? It just doesn’t seem safe to burn wood in there with the gas line right under neath it. I am not framiliar with this stuff at all so any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!!

We bought an outdoor fireplace with a chimney. Are they allowed in New York State with the new laws?

Situation: basically no heat (had some unvented natural gas heaters in front of decorative fireplaces, but they are unsafe and weren’t legally installed). Unit is on the second floor of a 3 floor building, so forced air isn’t an option. Gas inserts for the fireplace would require some big installation challenges (venting up through our chimney and the upstairs neighbors), possibly some structural work. Radiant floor heating is possible if I am willing to tear up my wooden floors, install the heating and reinstall the flooring. I have a couple of inexpensive space heaters (electric) in each end of the place which aren’t really that helpful on cold days. I can ask my family to wear more sweaters. Beyond that?? Thanks for any insights!

We just bought our first house and I plan to start a daycare in the downstairs. However, there is a brick fireplace that takes up most of one wall. The fireplace is wood burning and we do not want to use it at all. Can we sheet rock over it? Including covering the hole/chimney? Or is it easier to take a sledge hammer and tear down all the brick and then sheet rock? Is this something that is easily done or not? And what is the approximate cost??

Thank you for all advice and feedback!

We just bought our first house and I plan to start a daycare in the downstairs. However, there is a brick fireplace that takes up most of one wall. The fireplace is wood burning and we do not want to use it at all. Can we sheet rock over it? Including covering the hole/chimney? Or is it easier to take a sledge hammer and tear down all the brick and then sheet rock? Is this something that is easily done or not? And what is the approximate cost??

Thank you for all advice and feedback!