They say fireplaces are romantic, but they're really more trouble than they're worth.
My daughter looked stunned, and her partner was ready to argue.
When my daughter and her partner bought their home, they chose one that had a fireplace. They lived in the southeast, and I couldn’t understand why a fireplace was so important. My daughter told me that fireplaces are romantic, and she thought it was perfect in the room where they had placed it. There were no windows except for the skylight, a large furry carpet in front of the fireplace, and a huge sofa. When she sent me pictures, I had to admit that the space was romantic, and very well used, but the temperatures seldom got out of the 50s, even at night. They moved in right before Thanksgiving and invited the entire family over for dinner. When my husband started poking around the fireplace, he told our daughter that they got ripped off. He said the fireplace was nothing more than a showpiece, and they wouldn’t even be able to use a gas or electric insert in the fireplace. My daughter looked stunned, and her partner was ready to argue. She told my husband that he wasn’t a fireplace expert, and all because he worked with HVAC did not give him the right to give a professional opinion. He already disliked my daughter’s partner and shrugged and told her that from now on he would keep his mouth shut. My daughter asked me what I thought about the fireplace, and I told her it was lovely. However, I knew what my husband was talking about when I got down on my haunches and showed her how the back wall was fake brick and they connected it to the wallboard in the hallway.