The temperature is dropping and many homeowners love to use their fireplaces this time of year. But, as many people know, an open fireplace is inefficient. A better, easy way to use your fireplace is to install gas logs and custom fireplace doors. Gas log sets and fireplace doors are an easy, economical way to improve the efficiency of your fireplace while  making your home more beautiful at the same time.

Maybe you have contemplated a new wood or gas fireplace insert, but you are not convinced that this is the best option for your home or your lifestyle. Gas log sets and fireplace doors, or just glass fireplace doors are a perfect way to beautify your fireplace while making it more user friendly and more efficient at tha same time.

If you want to add efficiency and beauty to your existing masonry fireplace you can with glass fireplace doors. With custom glass fireplace doors, no longer will the heat from your home be sent out the chimney. Adding a gas log set means that with the touch of a button, you could have a beautiful, realistic burning fire instantly. No work, no mess.

If you only use your fireplace for ambiance, you can and should make it more efficient. Fireplace doors will do this. Traditional open fireplaces draw the heat from your home up and out the chimney. If you just want to enjoy your fire you are paying more to do so without a glass enclosure. Change the look of your hearth and make it more efficient just by adding glass fireplace doors.

Standard and custom-made fireplace doors are the answer to an easy, beautiful, efficient fire.  Custom glass fireplace doors can be created in any shape or size.

Contact West Sport in Sudbury for more information on glass doors and/or gas log sets.

Recently official released statistics from the US Census Bureau reveal that wood or wood pellets are again the fastest growing heating fuel in America. In 2012, 63.566 more families used wood or pellets as a primary heating fuel, a 2.6% increase over 2011. Why? Because it is efficient and attractive. There is nothing more beautiful or relaxing than coming home to a wood fire. And, best of all, wood burning stoves and fireplace inserts increase the value of your home.

Wood and pellet home heating grew by 34% in 10 years, 'faster than any other of the fossil fuels, says US Census. Additionally, oil and propane use continuously declined since 2010. Let’s face it, this mild weather is not going to last. Now is the time to consider a new wood stove or fireplace insert.

At the present, 2.5 million American households use wood as a primary heating fuel. Wood is by far the most used renewable energy in the US.

One percent of Americans use wood or wood pellets as a primary heating fuel and 7,7% US households use it as a secondary heating fuel. Do you have uneven home heating? Don’t turn up the thermostat, supplement your home heating with a wood burning stove or fireplace insert.

For beautiful choices, best prices and outstanding customer service, contact the Grill and Fireplace Shop in Sudbury. See what our customers are saying! And right now, we have plenty of November stove and fireplace insert specials.

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Winter is on the way, it is going to be a cold one and heating prices are going up. But you can spend less to heat your home this winter. Natural gas and wood are an efficient way to heat your home. By adding a gas stove or a wood burning stove, you will add an efficient, less expensive way to heat your home. But you will also add a beautiful focal point to the room too.

Why are gas stoves and wood stoves a better way to heat? For starters, if you have an open masonry fireplace, adding a wood or gas stove makes your fireplace more efficient. Burning or not, an open fireplace allow the heat in your home to go up the chimney.  Wood or gas stoves are a better way to heat your home. Better and more beautiful, and both friends and family will enjoy it.

Additionally, gas and wood are less expensive than oil or electric heat. And, wood burning stoves and gas stoves have become so efficient over the years that they have become efficient heaters. Heat your whole home, a large part of your home or an additional room. Whatever you choose, gas stoves and wood burning stoves are better beautiful way to heat.

But on top of all this good news, HearthStone gas stoves and HearthStone Wood burning stoves are on sale now. Save up to $350 on any qualifying HearthStone gas or wood stove. But, there is also a tax credit for a new wood stove purchased in 2013. So, not only will you save on the purchase of the new stove, you will also save on heating your home. All while adding beauty and ambience to your home. With nothing to lose, contact West Sport in Sudbury for more information.

Transform your fireplace into a gorgeous heat source with large space performance. The weather is expected to be cold this winter, heating bills are expected to be higher; with a new gas stove or a new wood burning stove, pay less to heat your home this winter.

If you are interested in making your home warmer and more beautiful this winter, then come to the fireplace insert and stove sale at West Sport in Sudbury.

HearthStone stoves and fireplace inserts are some of the most beautiful and most efficient on the market today. And every year they offer a Fall Sales Event. Right now you can get up to $350 dollars off any qualifying gas or wood stove or fireplace insert.

Hearthstone is also offering a free façade on all qualifying gas fireplace inserts. A savings of $419.

Designed to fit any décor, you can find one to create a beautiful focal point in your home. Create a cozy gathering spot while increasing the value of your home. All the while, making more efficient heat all winter long.

The cold weather is fast approaching, now is the time to make your heat work for you. If you are interested in some other brand or style stove or fireplace insert, you are in luck. We are also offering $200 off any wood, gas or pellet insert we offer. No credit, no rebate. You will get cash off at the register.

It is a fact, stoves and inserts increase the value of your home and increase your homes heating efficiency. And on all qualifying biomass stoves and inserts will also get you up to a $300 tax rebate at the end of the year. That is double savings.

Contact West Sport, a stove and insert supplier in Sudbury, for more details.

Homeowners are looking for a more attractive and more efficient option over their traditional open masonry fireplace. Fireplace inserts give them options from contemporary designs to  more a traditional look, but no matter what their décor, today there is a fireplace insert to match. Gas fireplace inserts have become the top choice.

In new construction and home additions, fireplaces are also getting bigger, influenced by widescreen television. There are also more choices for finishes, from classic brick and rock to ultra-sleek tile, glass and metal.

Many people in MetroWest Boston are choosing more modern designs for their gas inserts because the look is clean, modern and sleek, and can fit into any style home. The trend is adding the flat screen above it and creating an entire focal point in the room. In general, homeowners are moving toward gas fireplace inserts with a clean-face units and wider dimensions.

Gas inserts today are more versatile and more efficient. For many, the efficiency is a bonus. For those who only used the fireplaces for ambience can now use them for heat and enjoy them a whole lot more. Fireplace inserts have a range of styles, surrounds, and finishes to compliment any décor. Fireplace inserts are an easy and affordable way to revamp or customize an indoor fireplace and change the look of a room.

Gas Fireplaces add value to a home, and can significantly reduce heating costs. They are more efficient because you can just heat the room you are in. While some fireplaces heat only one room, others can circulate warm air to other parts of the home.

Natural gas fireplace inserts are the number one choice because they are convenient, easily maintained and cost-efficient. After work, just walk in the room and flip a switch, the fire turns on. You can heat the room, and keep the furnace turned down.

Fireplace inserts offer a range of benefits to a home, creating ambiance, warmth and comfort while adding value and cutting heating costs. Fireplace inserts not only serve as a focal point of a room, but as a gathering point as well.

For more information on or gas fireplace inserts, contact West Sport.

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Gas inserts are an easy, convenient way to heat your home and to beautify a traditional open fireplace. Gas inserts are essentially a stove that’s surrounded by steel or cast iron with an insulated glass window which prevents the heat from going up the chimney and into your hoem instead. Many gas fireplace inserts have a blower that forces the hot air from the fire back into your home. Fireplace inserts are placed directly in your existing open fireplace.
 
One of the biggest benefits to adding a gas insert to your home is that they’re energy efficient. Gas Fireplace Inserts average 75% - 80% efficiency and use less gas than a gas log set. In smaller homes, gas inserts can be used as the only heat source for your home. They can also be thermostat controlled for even heating.
 
Right now, at West Sport in Sudbury, the Napoleon XIR Gas Fireplace Insert is on sale until September 30th. Get $300 off.
The Napoleon Gas Fireplace Insert features cost saving benefits of zone heating or heating the room you use most, plus they have the benefit of replacing an old drafty masonry fireplace with an efficient heating source. This gas fireplace insert has a standard electronic ignition with a battery back-up so no electricity is required for operation with optional decorative accessories that make this gas insert the perfect fireplace insert for your home.

XIR3 Gas Insert Features

• Up to 24,000 BTU’s
• Fuel saving electronic ignition with battery back-up
• Clean, sleek front design with a 364 sq. in. glass viewing area
• Fully battery controlled – no electricity needed to operate
• Optional heat circulating blower and thermostatic remote controls available
• Optional safety screen available
• Heat radiating ceramic glass
• President’s Limited Lifetime Warranty

Cooler fall weather is on its way with winter right behind it. Add beauty and value to your home while adding heating efficiency at the same time. How? With wood burning stoves or gas inserts.

Efel S33 and S43 Wood Burning Stoves – These wood burning stoves offer you classic styling and advanced technology that makes them a comforting, efficient addition to your home. The cast iron body provides superior heat retention to get the most heat from the wood you burn. Enjoy a generous view of the fire through the wide, glass-paneled door which adds unsurpassed ambiance to your room. Efel wood stoves effectively heat a small home or a large living area. These stoves are at least 77% efficient and they meet or exceed international emissions standards.

Napoleon XIR3 Series Gas Fireplace Inserts – Gas Fireplace Inserts are convenient and easy to use. With the flick of a switch you can enjoy a beautiful fire in your hearth. Fireplace inserts add tremendous efficiency to an open hearth, forcing heat out into your home rather than up the chimney. Gas inserts have become incredibly efficient overtime, allowing you to use gas fireplace inserts to heat your home. Replace your drafty, inefficient masonry fireplace with a quality gas fireplace insert. This is the perfect solution to improve your heating efficiency for a warmer cozier home. Gas inserts offer superior heating solutions with the convenience of turning your fireplace on or off with a remote control.

Both of these beautiful fireplace options are on sale now at West Sport in Sudbury, now through September 30th. Contact us for more information.

Are you ready for winter? Do you remember a few years ago, that winter of snow and cold? Well the Farmer’s Almanac is  saying that Winter 2013-14 will be colder than normal and snowier than normal too.

Wood inserts and gas inserts are a better way to heat your home. And, more and more homeowners in Lexington, Concord, Weston, Natick, Sudbury and the surrounding towns are figuring this out. Central heating systems just don’t heat evenly and the answer is not to turn up the heat. The answer is to better, more efficiently heat your favorite room.

Wood burning fireplace inserts and gas fireplace inserts are the perfect way to better heat the favorite rooms in your home. But they also add a level of coziness and ambiance that does not exist with an unused open hearth.

Where do you gather in your home with family and friends when you entertain? Family room, great room, living room, kitchen? In any of these rooms you can add a gas or wood fireplace insert and change the whole dynamic of the room. By adding the focal point of a burning fire, and add the warm and cozy element of a beautiful fireplace insert you are not only creating space that is enjoyable to be in, you are also more efficiently heating your home.

Right now at West Sport in Sudbury, you can receive $300 off any HearthStone Fireplace Insert. And before Labor Day or the beginning of September is the right time to buy: less wait. Contact us for more information on our HearthStone Special. And, you can also receive a tax rebate on qualifying stoves and inserts.

Interested in what the Farmer’s Almanac says for the upcoming winter? Here it is:

For 2013–2014, we are forecasting a winter that will experience below average temperatures. A large area of below-normal temperatures will predominate through New England. Only the Far West and the Southeast will have a semblance of winter temperatures averaging close to normal.

Precipitation-wise, Southern New England, Southeast New York, New Jersey, and down through the Mid-Atlantic region will be seeing copious rains and/or snows.

Significant snowfalls are forecast for parts of every zone. Over the Northeast states, we are “red-flagging” the first ten days of February for possible heavy winter weather. We wish to stress that this particular part of the winter season will be particularly volatile and especially turbulent.

And mid-March could bring a wave of storminess stretching almost from coast to coast, bringing a wide variety of precipitation types as well as strong and gusty winds.
 
Great news for skiers, not so great for home heating. Come on in and take a look at beautiful Hearthstone Fireplace inserts and stoves, designed with all styles of home decor in mind.

If you are looking for a better way to heat your home this coming winter, now is the time to start the search. You can save twice on any Hearthstone stove or fireplace insert.
 
In the tradition of building high-performance clean burning wood stoves and inserts, HearthStone has a created beautiful line of them to match any décor and to fit into any home.  Most of our gas and wood burning stoves and fireplace inserts feature a large open view of the fire. Not only are Hearthstone inserts and stoves beautiful and efficient, they also provide exceptional heat output.

Hearthstone has been making the best stoves and fireplace inserts on the market for 35 years. There is certainly one for you and your lifestyle!  With the best line of wood, gas and pellet stoves available, Hearthstone has a product to warm your family, save you money and meet your needs.

Purchase any qualifying HearthStone heating appliance and receive an Energy Tax Credit of $300.   Don’t miss out; take advantage of this offer as soon as possible.  It’s time for you to invest in a high-performance clean burning stove or insert from HearthStone.  

Hearthstone is joining West Sport in Sudbury in offering you $300 off any purchase. That means you get $300 off at the time of purchase, and you get up to $300 tax credit.

But now is the time. After Labor Day the search really begins and that rush can add 2 more weeks onto your installation time.  For more information, contact West Sport in Sudbury.

We hate to be the bearer of bad news but, "It's gonna be here before you know it.” We are talking about winter!  The heating season is near.

Last year oil peaked in March at $3.94 a gallon. NewEnglandOil.com says the price of home heating oil this week at an average $3.39 a gallon.

But unfortunately, the weather and world politics have a huge impact on oil prices, they change constantly and daily depending on what's going on with the markets.

If you're looking to cut out the use of oil to heat your home you can anticipate about a 50% reduction in your central heat fuel cost, with a new wood, pellet, or gas stove. That savings pays for the upfront costs in just a few winters, but now's the time to buy.

After Labor Day and surely by the middle of September everybody starts looking for a new wood stove, pellet stove or gas stove, so the delay in shopping could add two to three weeks to the normal lead time for delivery and installation.

Soon enough, you'll be wiping frost from the windshield and hearing the furnace kick on for that painful first time.  Right now West Sport in Sudbury is having a sale on all  Hearthstone stoves and fireplace inserts, $300 off everything. Contact us.

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