Of course, I'm in the SW, so having fire for just ambiance as opposed to necessity is easy for me to say. Just yesterday I was wearing a short sleeved shirt. Hee hee...sorry to the more continental, inland, northern, and east coast folks. Brrrrrrrr.
Grew up busten wood no more not even for the looks and smells just pop in a video of a fire and call er done! I like the natural gas heated air blowing up through the floor! tug