Every house Susan Moch and her husband, Roland Poirier, have owned during their 40 years of marriage has had a fireplace. But fireplaces are notorious for wasting energy because the heat escapes ...

For many homeowners, fireplaces have become the nice china of home features: dusted off only for special occasions. Although attractive, they are messy to operate, and that homey glow they produce ...

Many people love their fireplaces, but if you have an open masonry wood-burning fireplace, you may want to consider updating it with a fireplace insert. Every minute they are burning, open masonry ...

Although considered by most to be a low-cost method of heating a room, traditional, open-masonry fireplaces create the reverse affect on the rest of your home. (Staff-Shot) Q. I am renovating my home ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As fireplaces heat up for the holiday season, some could experience the equivalent of the bad air the Bay Area saw during the recent wildfires. That has some people rethinking ...