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Wood burning fireplace inserts are a great way to heat your home. They give you the beauty of a wood fire, with the added advantages of a wood burning insert for better efficiency. With all of the choices today in wood burning fireplace insert styles, a new wood burning fireplace insert is the perfect choice to heat your home during cold Worcester winters.
 
If you have been thinking about buying a wood burning fireplace insert, now is the time. Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing and winter has only just begun.

Wood makes a beautiful fire. Wood burning fireplace inserts can heat your whole home all winter, so no more heating bills. Or, wood fireplace insert scan help supplement your home heating so you use less oil or gas heat throughout the winter, giving you smaller, more manageable heating bills all winter long.

The wood burning fireplace inserts manufactured today have much higher standards too, with higher EPA ratings than in the past.

Wood burning fireplace inserts will keep you warmer this winter, reduce your heating bills, add atmosphere to your home and increase your home’s value. What have you got to lose?

Click “fireplace inserts” to contact Custom Insulation about which wood burning fireplace insert would be best for your home.

Interest in pellet stoves and pellet fireplaces is skyrocketing. Pellet stoves and fireplaces are green, efficient, economical, and beautiful. There are a couple of things to think about when considering buying a pellet stove or pellet  stove insert for your home.

Do you want the new pellet stove or fireplace to heat your entire home, or just help heat a room or two? In order to purchase the right pellet stove or fireplace for your needs, you need to know how much space you want to heat. So how big is your house, or how big is the room(s) you want to heat? This will help you determine how many BTU’s you need. The pellet burning stoves and fireplace at Custom Insulation come in many sizes with all different heating capacities.

The Winslow Pellet Stove is a great value. With this pellet stove, you can heat anywhere from 900 to 2000 square feet of living space. With great efficiency, this is an incredibly economical way to heat your home this winter.

Pellets stoves and fireplaces meet the demand for an affordable way to heat your home, without sacrificing important quality features. Our attractive pellet stoves and fireplaces are easy to use with automatic controls for thermostat operation.

Sit in your living room and enjoy an evening by firelight. But best of all, with all the various styles; as well as a pedestal base or legs, your new pellet stove can fit in nicely with your décor.

If you are interested in a better home heating solution, contact Custom Insulation today.

Wood and pellet burning fireplace inserts help you cut down on your home heating costs.  They also make your fireplace  more efficient and more attractive.

If you have a fireplace in your home, then you are a prime candidate for a wood burning or pellet burning insert. They are a much more efficient source of heat than an open fireplace. And, for the remainder of the month, they also qualify for a home energy tax credit.

Essentially, a wood burning fireplace insert is a wood stove that is installed inside an open fireplace. They allow you to maximize heating efficiency and really benefit from the full potential of your fireplace.

You’ve probably heard plenty about making your home more energy efficient. Well now is the time to act.  Our Winslow Pellet stove insert can heat a home as large as 2000 square feet. Our wood burning fireplace inserts can heat anywhere from 1000-1800 square feet of space.

So if you are looking to increase the value of your home, increase your comfort this winter, and decrease your costs, contact Custom Insulation about wood and pellet fireplace inserts.

There are ways to spend money in order to save money and pellet stoves are a perfect example.

There are many advantages to heating your home with a pellet stove, other than the economy of pellets, the efficient heat and the decrease in your home heating bills, there is also ease of installation. You can put a pellet stove in any room with an outside wall, even if that room has no chimney. Any home or room can be compatible with a pellet stove.

Zone heating the areas of your home where you spend the most time can reduce your home heating bill by 20 to 40%. Installing an energy-efficient pellet stove is a great, appealing way to zone heat the rooms you use the most.

What's more, pellet heat is "greener." Spending money on a new pellet stove when it will add warmth and appeal to a room and save you money on heating bills.

Check out our pellet stoves at Custom Insulation, and save on your home heating bills this winter!

Ice dams are a result of too much heat loss from your home. Did you or someone you know struggle with ice dams last winter? Don’t go through this winter what you went through last year; there is an easy fix, to prevent ice dams, really.

Proper insulation and roof ventilation can stop ice dams from forming, prevent damage and lower energy bills. Ice dams form when melted snow refreezes at the roof edges. They look pretty on the neighbor’s house, but how do you stop them?

Three things are constant in ice dam formation: snow, heat to melt the snow and cold which refreezes the melted snow into ice. Ice dams can form with any amount of snowfall, even just 1 or 2 inches, if the roof is poorly insulated, and the snow is followed by days of freezing temperatures. It is true that deeper snow and cold temperatures increase the likelihood and size of ice dams. As snow on the upper part of the roof melts the water runs down the roof under the snow and refreezes into ice at the roof’s edge creating an ice dam. Additional melted snow pools against the dam and eventually leaks into your house through the roof or trim.

The snow melts along the top of the roof, and not at the bottom of the roof because of heat loss from your living space. The top of the roof is right above where you live. Poorly insulated homes lose heat out of the top of the roof, thus causing the snow to melt.

The solution: insulate your home to prevent heat loss. Insulation stops the flow of heat from the house to the roof keeping your roof cold. Houses in Massachusetts should have ceiling insulation of at least R-38, about 12 inches of blanket insulation or cellulose insulation. Contact Custom Insulation Specialties for information on how to more properly insulate  your existing home.