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Look over our library for technical articles about fireplaces and chimneys, fireplace design, and more. We also have an exhaustive list of links to old books and fireplace catalogs which you'll find invaluable in researching antique fireplaces, mantels, and stoves and to aid you in the renovation and restoration of your vintage fireplace.
CHIMNEYS & VENTING
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s it Time to Replace that Old Prefabricated fireplace?
Chimney Lining Requirements for Historic Homes
About Pilot Lights on Gas Fireplaces
Smoky Fireplaces: Causes & Cures
Chimney Sweeps: History & Customs
Letters from Vent Free Fireplace Owners
1927 Building Code & Chimney Liners
FIREPLACE DESIGN
Gas Fireplaces in BedroomsSolutions for Small Fireplaces
Craftsman Style Fireplaces: History & Design Aesthetics
Victorian Style Fireplaces: History & Design
How Can ZONE HEATING Save on Fuel Costs?
Converting a Prefabricated Fireplace to Gas
Allowable Locations for an LP Gas Tank
What is a Summer Cover or Summer Door?
Annual Gas Maintenance Program
How to Clean the Glass on Your Gas Fireplace
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Unvented Gas Space Heating Appliances - Iowa State University
CODES & STANDARDS
2012 Virginia Residential Code - PART VI-FUEL GAS
OLD BOOKS & CATALOGS
We've compiled a tremendous resource on old books about fireplaces and chimneys. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND that 19th-century venting practices and appliance design were considerably different than they are today, so please don't consider an 1880's book on chimneys to be an authoritative guide to what's safe to do today. Some of the advice they offer would be hazardously life threatening! Chimney sweeps and fireplace experts will find them entertaining, but a homeowner likely won't know what's good advice and what's bad so we implore homeowners to consult with a professional on fireplace and chimney matters.
1927 Building Code & Chimney Liners
The Complete Works of Count Rumford (1876)
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings (1912)
Making a Fireplace (1913)
On the Smokeless Fireplace (1855)
Sears Stoves, 1904 (cook stoves, parlor stoves, laundry stoves and more)
Original Old English Mantelpieces (old catalog)
The Hearth: A Book of Fireplace Designs in Brick 1918
The English Fireplace (1912)
The Open Fireplace in All Ages (1886)
Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation (1864)
The Fireplace in the Home (1910)
Rowhouse Manual (City of Philadelphia)
1927 Catalog of MillworkCatalog: ALDINE Grate & Mantel Company
Catalog: Schaller-Hoerr Co.
Catalog: The United State Roofing Tile Co. (floor tiles; get hearth tile inspiration from the 1920's)
Catalog: Friderichsen Floor & Wall Tile Company
The Home Fires: A few suggestions in face brick fireplaces from American Face Brick Assoc. 1923
Catalog: Readybuilt Fireplaces (the 1920's)
Brick Fireplace Designs, Claygate Brickfields LTD (1927)
Flues & Flue Linings - Chimneys & Fireplaces, Eastern Clay Products Assoc. 1925
Chimneys & Fireplace: How to Buid Them (1922)
Heatilator Fireplace: the Fireplace that Circulates Heat (1939)
Fireplace Fixtures Catalog #36, Janusch Manuf. (1925)
Southern Queen Fireplace Grates & Furnishings (1925)
Fireplace Fixtures, Catalog #33, Janus Manuf (1925)
Brick Fireplace Designs, Fisk, Homes & Co (1897)
Grates & Fireplace Fixtures, Drake Marble & Tile (1907)
Andirons & Firetools, Todhunter Inc., (1927)
Mantels & Fireplaces Catalog, Schaller-Hoerr Co. (1910)
Parlor, Cylinder & Laundry Stoves, Henry N. Clark Co (1908)
Monarch Catalog 113 (cook stoves, space heaters) (1925)
Catalog of grates, fenders, andirons, JL Mott Iron Works (1882)
The Chimneypiece, Original and artistic designs by Warings (1900)
Grates, Franklin Stoves & Fire Frames by Todhunter (1930)
Old Fireplaces and Their Equipment, Todhunter (1923)
Wood Mantel Catalog, JW Bailey & Sons (1910)
Stoves, Ranges, Fireplace Fixtures, Hibbard (1929)
Adams Fireplace Furniture, Catalog #11 (1926)
Electric Fireplace Catalog, Edwin Jackson Inc (1932)
Sears Catalog of Building Materials (1929)
House of Lords Fireplace Accessories (1960)
The English Fireplace, Catalog of inserts and stoves (1850)
Fireplace Catalog, Milton Pressed Brick (191?)
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Sears Catalog of Gas & Electric Lighting, 1900
Catalog Home Furnishings of Quality, 1929
Economy of Plumbing (Kitchen, Bath & Laundry products from Montgomery Ward & Co) 1920
Catalog Kirsch 1923 Rod & Window Draping Book (Curtains & Rods) 1923
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