Gel Fuel Fireplace

You might be quite bored with your traditional fireplace which burns coal and wood. Moreover, you might have a hard time blowing air into it in order to keep the fire burning. It also has additional maintenance cost like maintenance of chimney, fireplace heat exchanger and fireplace bellows. If you want to get reed of all these and at the same time if you want to enjoy the full size flame and optimize your room heating you can consider gel fuel fireplace as a good alternative. Gel Fuel for fireplace is easily available in local stores and are considered a better alternative as they don’t leave smoke and so the overall maintenance cost of the fireplace goes down. You might be worrying that this new up-gradation of your age old fireplace would be quite costly. Isn’t it?

You are absolutely wrong. This is neither going to be any up-gradation which would involve renovation of the gel fuel fireplace. The only thing that you would need for this process is a fireplace hearth, gel fuel tins and ceramic fire logs and coals. Your traditional fireplace can function as the fireplace hearth for gel fuel fireplace as well because it is prepared to tolerate high temperature that is released from burning coal and wood. The only difference in this case would be that as there would be no smoke emission so there would be no function of the chimneys but incase if there is any consumable around it may catch fire and emit smoke. You would need to buy gel fuel tins which are readily available in your local store are based on ethanol. The most popular brands are Jensen Real Flame, FireSource, Farmlight, Sunjel, etc. The next thing that you would need is Ceramic Fibre Logs, Pebbles or Coals which you can purchase either online or from a gas or gel fireplace specialist.

Gel Fuel Fireplace

Now as you have all the ingredients available all you need to do is place 2 to 3 gel fuel cans in the hearth of the fireplace. Put some ceramic fiber logs, coals or pebbles around the tins and light up the cans. It would take around 30 seconds to a minute for the fire to produce full size flames.