Gas Fireplaces 
With hundreds of designs, styles and sizes, there's a gas fireplace for almost any home in North America. And, with a tremendous list of features, gas fireplaces offer many benefits, including convenience and ease-of-use. Excitingly, gas fireplaces are one of the hottest hearth products on the market for new and existing homes because of the incredible installation flexibility and wide array of log styles and flame choices. But, the best news about gas fireplaces is how much the fire looks, and performs, like real wood.

Gas Logs 
If you have an existing fireplace but seldom use it – or use the fireplace more for aesthetics than heating, you may want to consider installing a set of decorative gas logs. While not designed to be a significant source of heat, decorative gas logs provide dramatic realism, from the lifelike ceramic fiber, concrete or refractory gas logs down to the glowing embers. Because gas logs burn either natural gas or propane, gas logs also have low emissions. Gas logs are easy to use, require little maintenance, and enhance the aesthetic appeal of a fireplace, whether turned on or off.

Gas Stoves
Gas stoves are designed to burn either natural gas or propane. Gas stoves emit very little pollution, require little maintenance, and can be installed almost anywhere in the home. Today's gas stoves feature large, dancing yellow flames and glowing red embers that are nearly identical in appearance to a wood stove. Just like a wood stove, gas stoves can be vented through an existing chimney, or direct vented through the wall behind the gas stove. While some gas stove models do not require outside venting, EPA does not support the use of such gas stoves due to indoor air quality concerns. The key features of freestanding gas stoves are ambiance and convenience. With a push of a button, or the turn of the thermostat, the glowing, dancing fire in a gas stove is instantaneously warm and tremendously soothing. Then, just as quickly, the fire in the gas stove can be turned off! Gas stoves are both beautiful and efficient, serving as heaters as well as interior design elements. And, gas stoves today can help people with older central furnaces save money on the cost to heat their home. Yet, the newest feature to gas stoves is how much the fire looks like the fire in a wood burning stove.

Woodburning Fireplaces
The look, smell and feel of a wood burning fireplace can soothe the soul while generating a deep, penetrating and relaxing warmth within a home. And, thanks to more than a decade of research and development by the hearth industry, there are now wood burning fireplaces that offer benefits well beyond just ambiance. These benefits include heat, convenience, energy independence, security and a cost-effective way to control fluctuating energy bills, not to mention reduced emissions that can help people burn wood responsibly to help protect winter air quality.

Wood Stoves
A wood stove can be comforting, economical and environmentally friendly. Whether it's the warm glow of the fire, the crackle of the wood or the deep penetrating warmth, wood stoves have a way of making people feel relaxed and right at home. Yet, in addition to ambiance, wood stoves today produce a low-cost heat that helps protect winter air quality. The traditional pot-bellied wood stove is a thing of the past - today's wood stove models feature improved safety and efficiency. Wood stoves produce almost no smoke, minimal ash, and require less firewood. Wood stoves can be sized to heat a family room, a small cottage, or a full-sized home. The best choices are wood stoves labeled by the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada (ULC) or another testing and certification body for safety. Wood stoves should also be certified to be low-emission according to EPA standards. While older uncertified wood stoves and fireplaces release 40 to 60 grams of smoke per hour; new EPA-certified wood stoves and fireplaces produce only 2 to 5 grams of smoke per hour. EPA certified wood stoves burn more cleanly and efficiently, save you money, reduce the risk of fire, and improve air quality inside and outside your home. 
EPA certified wood stoves come in different sizes: 
Small wood stoves are suitable for heating a family room or a seasonal cottage. For larger homes with older central furnaces, consider "zone heating" a specific area of your home (family or living room) with a small wood stove. This can reduce fuel consumption, conserve energy and save you dollars while maintaining comfort. 

Medium wood stoves are suitable for heating small houses, medium-sized energy-efficient houses, and cottages used in winter. 

Large wood stoves are suitable for larger, open plan houses or older, leakier houses in colder climate zones.

Fireplace Inserts
For people interested in enhancing the look and feel of an existing wood burning fireplace, the hearth industry has great news. It's now easier than ever before to increase the efficiency of a fireplace by adding a fireplace insert. The installation of a fireplace insert can turn an occasional source of warmth into a convenient and easy-to-use supplemental zone heater that can help control high home heating bills while protecting winter air quality. Fireplace inserts are available in many fuel types, including gas fireplace inserts, wood fireplace inserts and pellet fireplace inserts. If you rely on your fireplace for added warmth on cold days, consider a fireplace insert. They are similar in function and performance to free-standing stoves, but are designed to be installed within the firebox of an existing masonry fireplace. Municipal installation codes now require that a properly sized stainless-steel liner be installed from the insert flue collar to the top of the chimney. The result is better performance and a safer system. You can choose from fireplace inserts that burn wood, pellets or gas that provide the same safe efficiency as their wood stove, gas stove or pellet stove counterparts. EPA certified wood burning fireplace inserts and pellet burning fireplace inserts are available. Some fireplace inserts include state-of-the-art features such as fans and thermostatic controls, depending on the fuel. 

Pellet Stoves
Instead of logs, pellet stoves burn a renewable fuel made of ground, dried wood and other biomass wastes compressed into pellets. Pellet stoves are some of the cleanest-burning heating appliances available today and deliver high overall efficiency. Because they pollute so little, pellet stoves do not require EPA certification; some manufacturers, however, voluntarily seek this certification. Unlike wood stoves and fireplaces, most pellet stoves need electricity to operate, and can be easily vented through a wall, unlike woodburning stoves. Once you experience a pellet stove, it's easy to understand why people rave about these efficient and unique home heaters that generate an automated, economical and earth-friendly wood heat…and all without firewood! For just pennies an hour, a pellet stove can deliver a deep, penetrating warmth that provides independence from high heating bills while emitting almost no wood smoke. And with tremendous flexibility in installation and sizing, pellet stoves are a sophisticated choice for convenient heat that helps protect the environment. 

Electric Fireplaces
If you live in an apartment or condo and dream of cozying up by the fire, there is an ideal solution: an electric fireplace. The warm, radiant heat of today's electric fireplaces can be installed in minutes. Simply plug the fireplace into an outlet and you're ready to fire it up. Electric fireplaces are designed to be plug-and-play appliances, much like a stereo or a television. Simply turn them off and on as needed, and enjoy them when the mood hits! And with realistic fire technology that rivals a wood burning fire, the end result is snap, crackling great!