Fireplace tools are definitely a necessity in maintaining your fireplace. When the winter season starts to set in and the snowflakes start cascading, you would want to keep yourself and your family warm by huddling in a traditional and earthy fireplace. Yet, one should have the proper tools in caring for the fireplace, in order to promote cleanliness and avoid any untoward incidents.
The tools to maintain your fireplace are composed of four basic items: a broom, shovel, a pair of tongs, and a poker stick. The pair of tongs allows you to pick up charcoal bits and burnt wood segments, and then place them in a heated area. The complement to the tongs is the poker stick which allows you to tend the fire by moving wood and other solid fuel to the flames. The shovel lets you pick up fuel in bulk from your fuel stash. Of course, the broom is used for cleaning and brushing off scattered burnt embers and ash towards the fireplace and away from the living room.
The right tools are necessary for the safekeeping of the fireplace. You will never know if your kids have been playing with burnt wood chips and cooled charcoal from the fireplace. Perhaps your trusty dogs will find the fireplace warm enough to sleep, and consequently scuffle out cooled down embers and ash all over your living room. These scenarios will inevitably instigate a raging fire, starting from unassuming ash touching delicate carpet rugs and curtains. One needs to prepare and maintain the fireplace in an orderly and tip-top shape to prevent accidents. These tools are a must to keep the wood fuel and fire in one place.
You can buy these tools individually, or in traditional four-piece sets. Aside from these, fireplace tools also come in five-piece sets, having an additional stand in which all of the tools can hang together in one place. These stands come in a variety of styles. Some are good, old single-stick stands with a wide circular bases and hooks for the four tools, others are fashioned to look like mini-bookshelves or magazine racks, while others are uniquely shaped into miniature sculptures.
There are those that are made to decorate an entire corner of your house and those that are big enough and can hold photo frames of your family and relatives. There are manufacturers who shape the tools into golf clubs while others style them with elegant gold and brass finishing. These designs are all dependent on the owner's creativity and theme in mind.
With that said, most fireplace retailers sell customized 4 or 5-piece tool sets. Most of these tool sets have finishing done in black or gray, brass-plated, copper and rust, steel and chrome styles, and polished iron or silver. Those sets with simple, one-stand designs may be priced under $100, while sets with intricate furnishings and luxurious-looking finishing come at around $300 or more. There are also fireplace tools that strike the balance between cost-effectiveness and luxury, and are usually priced from $100 to $300.
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