My parents just moved into a new house. The master bedroom has a large, beautiful electric fireplace, perfect for warming up the room on cold winter nights. Seems like a fabulous idea. However, it turns out that there is no ventilation for the fireplace and thus it cannot be used.
So what about you? What things have you done or seen other people do that would have been really great ideas if it weren’t for that one tiny detail messing it all up?
Is it new construction?
If not, how did the previous owners use it and how did it pass code and/or any CO inspection?
Why would you need venting for an electric fireplace? No toxic gases are produced.
Yeah, Peri’s got a point… the point of an electric fireplace. That you don’t need ventilation. Can ya post a pic, or give us a model number off it, or something? Ya know, just to be sure.
Perhaps the “electric” part means “electrically lit dancing simulated flames” and it gives off no actual heat - and can’t be made to do so with other means because of the ventilation thing.
Just a guess.
That’s true about the electric fireplace, I guess I was thinking gas.
You can get “vent free” gas fireplaces too. Wouldn’t figure you’d need any venting on an electric hearth, but what do I know?
Anyway, as per the OP:
“So what about you? What things have you done or seen other people do that would have been really great ideas if it weren’t for that one tiny detail messing it all up?”
I thought having two kids was a good idea. You know, siblings. They could play together and be friends and crap like that.
Only the boys are just like my brother and me. Mean as hell and fight like wildcats.
Maybe if we had sweet, innocent little girls…
Sweet innocent little girls?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was a good one.
Lemme tell you something…I have one son (almost 11) and one daughter (almost 8) and she rules. He is the sweet and kind one, she can be too but she makes him work for it.
A woman after my own heart.
We got a dog. Then we got another to keep the first one company. Twice as many dogs = twice as much poop to scoop and twice as many vet bills and twice as many grooming bills… When the first one ran off and didn’t return, the second became an only dog. She seems to do just fine without the company. Although she follows me EVERYWHERE!!
When she goes to Doggy Heaven, we’ll live in a dog-free zone.