Fireplace Glass Screens

REVELATION	average price: but depends on size, $1200.00		GALLERY	average price:   $400.00	FINISHES ON MOST DOORS: Antique Brass Special Ant. Brass Grand Brass Polished Brass Satin Brass Polished Chrome Satin Chrome Antique Copper Polished Copper Satin Copper Black Nickel Satin Nickel Flat black Natural Iron Distressed Natural Iron Vintage Iron Hand Oxide Pewter Polished Steel Sweedish Steel Silver Tex. Rust Ultra Bronze Ancient Age
TRIM FIRE	average price: but depends on size, $500.00		CUSTOM GLASS	average price:  $1200.00
GLASS FIRE                                average price: but depends on size, $700.00			PAN A VIEW	average price:  $665.00
INSIGHT	average price: but depends on size, $665.00		VANTAGE	average price:  $665.00
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	Diamond-w Glass or wire mesh doors: average price: but depends on size, $950.00			Hearthcraft Doors: $400 to $700.00

THE FUNCTION AND USE OF THE GLASS DOOR FIRESCREEN

"DECORATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL"

In addition to being a very attractive addition to home furnishings, the glass door firescreen has many useful and functional features.

Starting a fire can be made much easier by closing curtains and doors and opening the bottom draft.  When the fire dies down, it can be rekindled in the same manner.

Closing the curtains and doors as well as the dampers drastically reduces the amount of heat that is normally lost up the chimney - heat which is often generated by an oil, gas or electric furnace.

Radiant heat is greatly increased with the curtains closed and the doors open.

Operating the screen with the doors and curtains closed, heat is conducted through the doors and the metal front of the screen.

For fireplaces without flue dampers, a glass door firescreen is a must.

Closing the curtains and the doors when retiring will allow the fire to die down safely.

Since the fireplace damper must be open with gas logs installed, a glass door allows you to close the doors (with the logs turned off) to keep heated room air from going up the chimney.

TOP DAMPER CONTROL
Some Portland Willamette glass doors have a top and bottom damper. With the top damper control open, and the doors and bottom damper control closed, air is fed to the top of the fire, creating a slower burning, less intense fire.

TOP/BOTTOM DAMPER CONTROLS
Closing both dampers and doors greatly reduces the amount of air entering the fireplace, allowing the fire to burn slowly or go out.

DOORS OPEN
With the doors open a greater amount of heat is radiated from the fire. A mesh curtain screen (included on most Portland Willamette glass doors) is always recommended for added protection when a wood fire is burning with the doors open.

DOORS CLOSED
With the doors closed, heat from the fire is conducted through the glass panels and metal front.  Closing the doors also restricts heat loss through the chimney.

Top and bottom dampers can be positioned anywhere between fully closed or open.  This flexibility allows the owner to find the right fire burning conditions, which change due to wind and atmospheric conditions and type, size and moisture content of wood.

LEAVING THE FIRE UNATTENDED
Before going to bed at night, merely close the screen damper controls, the mesh curtain screen and the doors.  Do not close the fireplace damper.  Central home heat loss is greatly reduced.  Safety is assured with the glass doors acting as a barrier to possible flying sparks.

THERE ARE THREE FAMILIES OF GLASS DOOR FIRESCREEN

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