As a member of HPBA Pacific, we want to make sure you have the resources you need to be successful in your hearth business. Over the years, the association and affiliates have created brochures, fact sheets, and other marketing materials that are available to you. HPBA Pacific will also personalize them with your business and print them for you (for a small fee) if you don’t have a graphic artist to help with this.
You can also get more resources and tools from HPBA Retailer Tool Kit. Just access with your member login.
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NFI MARKETING BROCHURE
Investing time and money in this achievement distinguishes you and your company. NFI Certified Professionals are among the top professionals in your field. Letting consumers know about your commitment to professional excellence can help them select the right hearth products and promotes your considerable professional assistance. NFI wants to help you.
PLAY IT SAFE FLYER
A gas, wood, or pellet-burning stove or replace can add beauty, warmth, and value to your home and set the mood for memorable gatherings of family and friends. But choosing and installing a hearth product and chimney or vent without adequate expertise is like playing with fire.
Planning and installing replaces, stoves and their venting systems require considerable technical knowledge and skill. Numerous decisions from proper floor protection to appliance sizing and placement to venting system compatibility and height should be made with the assistance of a knowledgeable professional.
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HEARTH HANDBOOKS FOR BUILDING OFFICIALS
Make one part of your work easier and less stressful with the HEARTH Handbooks for Building O fficials. These two comprehensive and convenient guides to all major hearth appliances and venting systems, Gas Hearth Systems and Solid Fuel Hearth Systems, are packed with information that will save you valuable time and energy. The Handbooks organize and clarify the world of hearth products — with helpful references to the sometimes di cult to nd relevant sections of the major codes.
CERTIFY WITH NFI
The National Fireplace Institute® is the professional certification division of the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Education Foundation (HPBEF), a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization for the hearth industry. NFI’s objective is to increase public safety by establishing meaningful credentials for professionals involved in planning and installing residential hearth appliances and venting systems.
Fact Sheets
ELECTRIC FIREPLACES
The Anywhere Fireplace: If you live in an apartment or condo and dream of cozying up by the fire, there is an ideal solution: an electric fireplace. The warm, radiant heat of today’s electric fireplaces can be purchased at the store, carried home in the back of your car, and installed in minutes. Simply plug the fireplace into an outlet and you’re ready to fire it up. It’s even easy to carry an electric fireplace up a flight of stairs. Electric fireplaces are designed to be plug-and-play appliances, much like a stereo or television. Simply turn them off and on as needed, and enjoy them when the mood hits! And with realistic fire technology that rivals a wood-burning fire, the end result is snap, crackling great!
HOW TO CREATE AN OUTDOOR ROOM
Sitting comfortably with friends or family in the backyard on a cool summer evening, with a warm fire and dinner sizzling on the grill, is pure pleasure. It is also the precise reason why people throughout North America are turning their yards and decks into inviting outdoor living spaces. People are extending the comfort and luxury of their homes into the great outdoors, and the result is the popular trend called the “outdoor room.”
ACCESSORIZING A FIREPLACE
Fireplaces as Focal Points: The fireplace is a beautifully visible part of the home. It plays an important role in our lives and is a sought-after feature for people looking to build or buy a house. The fireplace reflects the heart and soul of its owners and can turn a plain room into an inviting retreat. Yet, one of the most exciting characteristics of a fireplace is its role as a design focal point, bringing together furniture, artwork, lamps, and draperies in a pleasingly harmonious décor within a room.
PELLET STOVES
Once you experience a pellet stove, it’s easy to understand why people rave about these efficient and unique home heaters that generate an automated, economical, and earth-friendly wood heat…and all without firewood! For just pennies an hour, a pellet stove can deliver a deep, penetrating warmth that provides independence from high heating bills while emitting almost no wood smoke. And, with tremendous flexibility in installation and sizing, pellet stoves are a sophisticated choice for convenient heat that helps protect the environment and doesn’t break the bank.
FIREPLACE INSERTS
For people interested in enhancing the look and feel of an existing wood-burning fireplace, the hearth industry has great news. It’s now easier than ever before to increase the efficiency of a fireplace by adding a fireplace insert. The installation of a fireplace insert can turn an occasional source of warmth into a convenient and easy-to-use supplemental zone heater that can help control high home heating bills while protecting winter air quality.
RESPONSIBLE WOOD BURNING
On a chilly evening, there is nothing more relaxing than gathering around a warm, cozy fire that radiates rich, soothing heat. The only greater comfort comes from knowing that you are also helping to protect your neighborhood air quality from excessive wood smoke. So, how can you enjoy a wood fire that emits very little smoke? The answer is simple…burn wood responsibly!
HEARTH PRODUCT FUELS
The radiant heat and dancing flames of a fire in a fireplace or a freestanding stove can create a peaceful and relaxing gathering place within a home. To help people achieve this ambiance and warmth, there is now a wide variety of hearth products designed to suit almost any lifestyle and home design. But, one of the most exciting components of hearth products is the variety of fuel options that make the installation of stoves, fireplaces, fireplace inserts, masonry heaters, and log sets possible in almost any home in North America.
WOOD STOVES
Why a wood stove? The answers are simple – comforting, economical, and environmentally-friendly. Whether it’s the warm glow of the fire, the crackle of the wood, or the deep penetrating warmth, wood stoves have a way of making people feel relaxed and right at home. Yet, in addition to ambiance, wood stoves today produce a low-cost heat that helps protect winter air quality and reduces the threat of global warming.
GAS FIREPLACES
With hundreds of designs, styles, and sizes, there’s a gas fireplace for almost any home in North America. And, with a tremendous list of features, gas fireplaces offer many benefits, including convenience and ease-of-use. Excitingly, gas fireplaces are one of the hottest hearth products on the market for new and existing homes because of the incredible installation flexibility and a wide array of log styles and flame choices. But, the best news about gas fireplaces is how much the fire looks, and performs, like real wood.
WOOD BURNING FIREPLACES
The look, smell, and feel of a wood-burning fireplace can soothe the soul while generating a deep, penetrating and relaxing warmth within a home. And, thanks to more than a decade of research and development by the hearth industry, there are now wood burning fireplaces that offer benefits well beyond just ambiance. These benefits include heat, convenience, energy independence, security and a cost-effective way to control fluctuating energy bills, not to mention reduced emissions that can help people burn wood responsibly to help protect winter air quality.
GAS LOGS
The ambiance of a flickering fire in the fireplace can take the edge off a hectic day and soothe away stress. For those with limited time or energy, building a welcoming fire isn’t always a simple task. But there is a solution. Install a set of gas logs into the fireplace and enjoy a fire in seconds, whether for an hour or the entire evening. Gas logs are easy to use, require little maintenance, and enhance the aesthetic appeal of a fireplace, whether turned on or off!
ZONE HEATING
Spending time watching a movie or reading a book in the family room on a chilly evening can be even more enjoyable when the room is toasty warm. Now, it’s easier than ever before to obtain that kind of heat without turning up the thermostat on the furnace and heating the whole house unnecessarily. Simply install a hearth product as a zone heater and generate ambiance and penetrating heat while controlling home heating costs.
GAS STOVES
The key features of gas freestanding stoves are ambiance and convenience. With a push of a button or the turn of the thermostat, the glowing, dancing fire in a gas stove is instantaneously warm and tremendously soothing. Then, just as quickly, the fire can be turned off! Gas stoves are both beautiful and efficient, serving as heaters as well as interior design elements. And, gas stoves today can help people with older central furnaces save money on the cost to heat their home. Yet, the newest feature of gas stoves is how much the fire looks like a wood-burning fire!