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FIREPLACE AND HEARTH RESOURCE GUIDE

Here’s a guide to some of the most frequently used fireplace manufacturers, masonry providers, and producers of hearth accessories for log homes.

The best way to research the fireplace for your log home is, first, to talk to your log-home producer. In most cases, the representative can recommend a company in your area you can speak with to determine cost, feasibility, size, and options, and chances are the same company has done some work on a log home.

Second, when you have a clearer idea of the type of fireplace you want, go online and Google several keywords at once. You should include the type of fireplace you want and the area in which you intend to build. The more specifics you include in your search, the better. For example, “Georgia log home gas fireplace” will get you more specific results than “fireplace.”

Third, if Google search proves too overwhelming (which certainly can be the case), we’ve found it helpful to pull out the Yellow Pages, look under “Fireplaces,” and call your nearest specialist. If nothing else, the local firm can break down the costs for each option, answer your how-to questions, and help you narrow your search for local providers.

FIREPLACES & E-mail: brent@centralfireplace. MASONRY com

Website: www.centralfireplace.

Acucraft Fireplaces com

Phone: 888-317-6499 Manufacturers of gas fireplaces,
E-mail: info@acucraft.com
freestanding stoves, and gas
Website: www.acucraft.com
inserts.

Wood-burning fireplace systems that combine traditional fireplace

DESA Hearth Products

charm with contemporary heat-

Phone: 813-571-9686

ing technology.

E-mail: tjohnson@desaint.com Website: www.desaint.com Producers of masonry technol-

Buckley Rumford Co.

ogy under its FMI (Fireplace

Phone: 360-385-9974

Manufacturers Inc.) and Van-
E-mail: buckley@rumford.com
guard brands.

Website: www.rumford.com

Manufacturer of Rumford

Eagle Stone & Brick

fireplaces, masonry chimneys,

Phone: 618-282-6722

chimney pots, and clay bake

E-mail: eagle@htc.com ovens.

Website: www.eagle-stone.com Distributor of Eldorado Stone

Champlain Stone

and StoneCraft Industries archi-
Phone: 518-623-2902
tectural stone products.

E-mail: info@champlainstone. com

EcoSmart fireplace

Web site: www.champlain-
www.ecosmartfire.com

stone.com

Creators of a free-standing fire-

Champlain quarries and
place collection requires no flue
manufactures stone products to or connections (fireboxes are
custom size, color range, and fueled by renewable denatured
finish specifications. ethanol), is environmentally
friendly, and offers the ambi-

Central Fireplace ence of a fire anywhere in the Phone: 303-408-6137 home.

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Hearth beats

Among the new trends that cataloguer Plow & Hearth is seeing: LEFT: Portable electric stoves designed to resemble woodburning stoves can be moved from room to room. This model can heat up to 400 square feet and retails for around $300. MIDDLE: Hearth screens are available in small and large sizes with a variety of rustic vignettes. Hearth screens are also available with and without doors. Retail price of this screen is around $180. RIGHT: Got a pot-bellied stove or a wood heater? The Plow & Hearth Log Cabin Steamer has a “smoking” (actually steaming) chimney to dress up your stove and add moisture to the air. It retails for about $70.