[AT] OT-LP Gas fireplace insert

[John Slavin]

Hello everyone:

I have a standard wood fireplace in my house that I haven't used in  
years.  Our heat is electric cable heat in the ceiling.  The  
fireplace in see-through with an opening in our living room and our  
bedroom.  Our house is a smallish ranch style and the living room is  
really a great room for the living room/dining room and open to the  
kitchen as well.  I'm thinking of adding an LP Gas fireplace insert.   
I'm thinking that would do a good job of heating our primary living  
areas since they're all open, with the electric heat as more of a  
backup.  Anyone have any experience with these and have any thoughts  
or recommendations?

John Slavin

ps:  Tractor connection:  I bought a 500 gal. LP Gas tank at my  
uncle's estate sale.  Tractors sold really high I thought.  I think  
every tractor brought more than he paid for it.  Newest tractor, an  
LT-90A AGCO that was 2 years old, sold for $50,000.00.  At a  
consignment sale the week before, good equipment sold the same way,  
HIGH.  One guy was heard to say that everything seemed to be selling  
for 50% more than what it could be bought a year ago.  Land prices  
are the same way.  Check out this site:

<http://www.kansascityfed.org/home/subwebnav.cfm? 
level=3&theID=9754&SubWeb=12>

there is an excel file called Land Values-KC

It's for land within the Kansas City Federal Reserve area, and it's  
insane how much land has gone up the last year; twenty percent  
increase in value in the last quarter of 2007 alone.  If any of you  
would like to read it, but don't have excel, let me know.  I can get  
it and print it as a pdf file, assuming you have the free Acrobat  
Reader on your computer.