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Any piece of equipment comes with it some basic advantages and disadvantages. An electric fireplace is no exception. Operating and using this device certainly brings with it some pros and cons. It is important to become familiar what these things are so that you know what you are facing with whenever you decide to purchase the product.
Among the pros related with the use of an electric fireplace include its quick of installation, easy operation and low maintenance. Indeed, installing this device can be rather swift. With no need for a chimney, you can have it installed within a day. Units of these come already assembled in stores. So when you purchase a free-standing device, you only need to push it against any wall or put it above any desk you want. If you get a wall-mounted unit, you just screw in the mounting block to the wall and then hang the device right after.
Operating it is really easy. Being an electrical unit, you must first plug it to a wall socket. Switching it on is a matter of pushing a few buttons. You get controls for the heater component and there may be additional ones for the visual display and for the taped fire crackling sounds. Adjusting the heat is also fairly simple with the thermostat display directly embedded on its side. What's even more outstanding is that you don't even have to stand next to the device to push the control buttons on or off. Most of the electrical fireplaces come with remote control operation making your operating task a total breeze.
Lastly, this type of fireplace requires little maintenance. With no capability of burning wood, there are no ashes that need to be swept clean. And since no soot is produced, you don't have to worry about this matter either. Perhaps, the only maintenance you need is a few simple wipes of clean cloth to get rid of dust and dirt that may have clung upon its outer surface.
If there are pros then there are certainly some cons. Among these is that the electric fireplaces doesn't produce natural-looking flames and it doesn't produce an intense heat. Electrical fireplaces don't create natural fire flames unlike what gel fireplaces are capable of. While visual displays can be shown, anyone can easily identify that they are completely unreal. As for the heat they impart, this fireplace is only capable of producing up to 5,000BTUs of heat which may not be enough to warm a medium-sized room. Even a gel fireplace can surpass the level of heat it imparts because combining three canisters of gel fuels can, in fact, give robust warmth of 9,000 BTUs.
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