I had a fireplace with an insert and blower when I lived in Waskom .... if you turned the blower on low you could bake biscuits in the den .... we had a fireplace built in our new house in Garrison, but we have never built a fire in it ... have gas logs mostly for just watching the flames .... I am wanting to build another shop and insulate it and have a wood heater ... make it my alternate mancave ....