Clean Doesn’t Mean Compromise

With over 1000 square inches of viewing area, the award winning Rumford Renaissance fireplace combines classic open hearth styling with state of the art technology. The result is an ultra-low emissions fireplace that doesn’t require you to tolerate the smaller viewing area typically reserved for wood-stoves and high efficiency fireplaces.

Traditionally, the pursuit of selecting a wood fireplace led to the crossroads of selecting style versus performance with the dichotomy lying in between a large viewing area and clean burning. In the 1980′s the EPA began enforcing emissions standards for wood stoves. As a result of designing systems that would burn cleaner, manufacturers realized that reduced emissions goes hand in hand with a cleaner glass viewing area.

Renaissance Fireplaces notes the following about their success in their breakthrough product line:

The key to lowering emissions is to achieve and maintain very high temperatures which allow volatile gasses and particulates to burn. This is exactly how EPA certified, wood burning stoves burn cleanly, but making it happen in an open fireplace is much more difficult..
There’s no simple solution or mystery technology! We’ve incorporated a wide range of features into the Renaissance that, when combined, make it the cleanest burning open fireplace ever made.
The Ultimate Bonus is that cleaner fires are more beautiful fires. A Renaissance Rumford™ fire is so incredibly tall, bright and lively that you need to see it to appreciate it. The Rumford firebox provides a vertical fire-viewing experience, superior to much larger conventional fireplaces.
The Renaissance is the first open fireplace of its kind; applying modern physics to an ancient element to produce breathtaking fires and a greener planet.
Amazingly, because the fire is so much hotter than traditional fireplaces, the efficiency of the Renaissance Rumford is much higher than other open fireplaces. Burning with the door down makes the Renaissance a surprisingly efficient fireplace.