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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This weekend, August 10 and 11 is a tax free holiday in Massachusetts. This may be the perfect time to start thinking about heating your home this winter. Right now, at West Sport in Sudbury you can buy any Hearthstone Fireplace insert or stove and get $300 off, plus pay no sales tax! You can save twice!

This is an In-Store Only special on HearthStone gas, pellet, and wood burning stoves and fireplace inserts.

If you want to save money and energy, a fireplace insert or stove is a perfect solution. Traditional open fireplaces are very inefficient.  If you have been wondering if wood burning fireplace inserts or wood stoves are more efficient than a traditional open fireplace, they are. Stoves and inserts allow the fire to burn hotter. They also keep the heat from going up the chimney like in an open fireplace. The heat is instead forced out into your home, making it more efficient.

Additionally, a new stove or fireplace insert is an easy, cost effective and efficient way to update the look of your home. So, while you are saving money you can also add a focal point to your room with the addition of a beautifully crafted stove or fireplace insert.

Massachusetts winters are cold. Everyone wants a welcoming fire in their Boston area home where they can relax and be warm.  Fires in the hearth are relaxing, but today, why not have a fire that is more efficient and cost effective while adding beauty?

Many of the stoves and fireplace inserts now have efficiency ratings over 80%, this is why they are becoming so popular.  So if you want to add beauty and functionality to your home visit us this weekend for the Tax Free Weekend and take advantage of $300 off and no sales tax. Contact us for more information.

Another Tax Free weekend in Massachusetts is approaching. On August 10th and 11th we can forget about paying sales taxes on almost all purchases. So if you have been thinking about buying a fireplace insert or gas or wood burning stove for the upcoming winter,  this tax free weekend will be the time to buy in Metro West Boston.

Do you have other things you want to do that weekend? No problem. You don’t have to shop on August 10 and 11, you can shop now and pay then. Avoid the wait and start your shopping for fireplace inserts and stoves now.

Come on in to West Sport in Sudbury and take a look. In fact, we are also offering $300 off everything HearthStone and NO taxes, that is a huge savings!  Ask some questions, see what interests you, and pick out a new HearthStone wood burning, pellet, or gas stove or a new Hearthstone Fireplace insert.
 
Have you wanted to make your hearth more attractive and more efficient? Have you been looking for an easy way to increase your home value? A working stove or fireplace insert is the easy, beautiful answer.

With the Hearthstone inventory at West Sport, you can find a stove or insert to match any décor, get $300 and forget about paying sales tax!  We will install it too.

If you have been thinking about adding a new fireplace insert or wood, gas or pellet stove to your existing fireplace, let us show you your options. Fireplace inserts and stoves make heating with fire easy to do, and while making your home even more beautiful and relaxing.
 
Avoid the tax free holiday rush, and come on it to look at our spectacular lines of stoves, inserts, and fireplaces now. You pay enough in taxes; take advantage of the Massachusetts tax free holiday. Contact West Sport for more information. Like us on Facebook and tell us what you think!

True fact: A gas grill is more convenient. But it also creates less flavorful food.

It’s a beautiful day. The family’s in attendance, side dishes and beer in tow. It’s BBQ time. Time to kick back and fire up the…stove?

That doesn’t sound terribly exciting. But that’s basically what you’re doing when you cook out on a gas grill.

True fact: Cooking on a gas grill is more convenient than cooking with charcoal grills.

It’s also a lot less special. And, scientifically speaking, it creates less flavorful food.

To understand why, you first need to understand that flavor and taste are not the same thing. “Within flavor, we have taste compounds and we have aroma compounds,” says Gavin Sacks, associate professor of food science at Cornell University. “Our brains just aren’t designed to decouple them.”

In other words, a burger is more than the sum of its ingredients. Sure, there are chemical processes occurring in your food that alter its flavors as it heats but this delicious chemistry happens whether you cook on gas, charcoal, an electric burner, even an engine block.

What charcoal grills bring to the party is a healthy heaping of aroma compounds, the other half of the power couple that is flavor. “There are only five taste receptors that are well-agreed-upon to exist within your taste buds,” says Sacks. He’s referring to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and the new kid: umami.

Anything else you perceive while eating — that smoky deliciousness, for example — is courtesy of aroma.

Aromas are released when you bite into your food. They light up your olfactory receptors. That neurological signal mixes with whatever your taste buds are saying and tells your brain what’s going on in your mouth.

Of course, even food cooked on a gas grill gives off aromas — all food does. But food grilled over a charcoal flame has a special one: guaiacol.

Translation: Cooking over charcoal makes your food taste like bacon. Let me repeat that: blah blah charcoal blah blah BACON.

So if you have two identical steaks, cooked at identical temperatures, for the same amount of time, where the only difference is that one is cooked over charcoal and one is cooked over gas, what will be the end result? The charcoal-cooked steak will taste more like bacon.

Case closed. For more information on charcoal grills, contact West Sport.

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Are  you in the market for a new gas grill? If so, West Sport in Sudbury has what you are looking for. Inventory Clearance on gas grills, we need to make room so everything is marked down! There are 48 brand new gas grills in stock and on sale. Don’t forget, free delivery and assembly on every gas grill in stock and we service everything we sell.
 
All of our sale grills are gourmet gas grills at rock bottom prices. If you have been wanting to buy a new grill, add an outdoor kitchen, or enhance your backyard patio, here is what we have to offer:

Broil King - Broil King gas grills are built to perform, giving you versatility in outdoor cooking. The Broil King cooking system gives you the ability to cook almost anything on your grill in any style you want. You can sear, rotisserie cook, or you can use your grill like your oven, using indirect heat. Broil King gas grills are the choice of grilling enthusiasts who love casual outdoor living and great tasting food.

MHP - MHP makes innovative outdoor gas grills that enrich your backyard experience and complement the style and function of your patio, deck and home. These gourmet gas grills are built of the finest grade weather-resistant materials and are made in the USA.

Broil Mate - You will get the results you want with Broil Mate gas grills. They are built to give you optimum grilling performance for great meals every time. An efficient, effective cooking system with beautiful style, Broil Mate gas grills have been designed for the grilling enthusiast.

Delta Heat – Delta Heat makes built in gas grills and free standing gas grills that are perfect for your outdoor kitchen or patio. These gas grills have an innovative design and are performance engineered.

For more information on our gas grill clearance sale, contact us.