We have recently purchased a new construction home, we did not design it, but we loved everything about it BUT the Electric Fireplace. We would like to change it out and have been doing a lot of research about Alcohol Burning fireplaces, does anyone have any experience with these?

In theory, I think we should be able to take the existing "firebox" and electrical components out and replace it with a Alcohol Burning Firebox the same size...then viola...real flames not more cheesy plastic waving with a fan.

I think that this would be a much better alternative to installing a real chimney, flue, etc...there is a beautiful mantle with built in cabinets around both side (floor to ceiling) so we want to do as little "reconstruction" to that area as possible.

Any suggestions?

Fr_Chuck

They work fine, they also have some of the new "electronic" not fan but it is a projection and to be honest it looked so real I was surprised