Has anyone done a Rumford back to back fireplace? Can you post pictures of the back to back fireplace and comments. We are starting a new build soon and have plans for the back to back. I hope I am not making a mistake. Thanks.

Hi Kiwigem, A friend recommended a course to me to help give me some ideas and more information about different fireplace options! It may come as help for you and I hope it does. http://aecdai.ly/oc

Our previous home, a Georgian colonial built in the early 1800's, was originally heated with a Rumford fireplace in almost every room except the kitchen. All had a crane on which one could hang a pot, but the main cooking apparatus was one that every modern housewife wanted if they could afford it: The newly invented cast iron wood burning cooking stove! It even had an oven! No more large dirty, sooty fireplaces to mess up her new kitchen! BTW, We used the fireplaces all the time for heating, and they worked wonderfully, but we mostly cooked with electricity. :-)

Well Lucy, I did find one eventually. The only one actually. And it has a wonderful option called a "cool touch" that sends the heat up the chimney if one rathers have it just for looks. It would be perfect except it's too big for my home and I'd need to find a bank to rob to pay for it. http://www.innovationonfire.com/content/Citadel.pdf Here is a link that might be useful: Rumford gas fp