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  2. Flue - Wikipedia

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    The heat from the flue gases is absorbed quickly by the bricks and then released slowly to the house rather than the chimney. In a well insulated home, a single load fire burning for one and a half hours twice a day is enough to keep an entire home warm for a 24-hour period. In this way, less fuel is used, and noxious emissions are reduced.

  3. Fireplace - Wikipedia

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    A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for heating a room. Modern fireplaces vary in heat efficiency, depending on the design. Historically, they were used for heating a dwelling, cooking, and heating water for laundry and

  4. Wood-burning stove - Wikipedia

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    Wolfgang Schroeter invented the first wood-burning stove with a cast iron frame and glass door. This allowed the user to see the fire burning inside the stove. [16] A fireplace insert converts a wood-burning fireplace to a wood-burning stove. A fireplace insert is a self-contained unit that rests inside the existing fireplace and chimney.

  5. Stove - Wikipedia

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    A wood-burning stove (or wood burner or log burner in the UK) is a heating or cooking appliance capable of burning wood fuel and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal (usually cast iron or steel ) closed firebox, often lined by fire brick , and one or more air controls (which can be ...

  6. Chimenea - Wikipedia

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    Chimenea burning wood. A chimenea (UK English) [1] or chiminea(US English) [2] (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ. ə / CHIM-in-AY-ə; from Spanish chimenea [tʃimeˈnea], in turn derived from French cheminée, "chimney") is a freestanding front-loading fireplace or oven with a bulbous body and usually a vertical smoke vent or chimney.

  7. Kitchen exhaust cleaning - Wikipedia

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    Before and after pictures of commercial kitchen hood in North Bay, Ontario.. Kitchen exhaust cleaning (often referred to as hood cleaning) is the process of removing grease that has accumulated inside the ducts, hoods, fans and vents of exhaust systems of commercial kitchens.

  8. Masonry oven - Wikipedia

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    A masonry oven, colloquially known as a brick oven or stone oven, is an oven consisting of a baking chamber made of fireproof brick, concrete, stone, clay (clay oven), or cob (cob oven). Though traditionally wood-fired, coal-fired ovens were common in the 19th century, and modern masonry ovens are often fired with natural gas or even electricity.

  9. Thermal insulation - Wikipedia

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    Insulated hot water supply and return hydronic piping on a gas-fired boiler Thermal insulation applied to exhaust component by means of plasma spraying. Space heating and cooling systems distribute heat throughout buildings by means of pipes or ductwork.