Hearthlist Digest #415 - Wednesday, February 23, 2000
 
Re: Installing Retailers
  by "Skip Jackson" <[email protected]>
mantel answer
  by "Ben Weathersby" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: Re: Installing Retailers
From: "Skip Jackson" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:24:25 -0500
 
Dear Willieweep,
	HPA should have a catagory for 'Installing Retailers'.
The installing distributors have a convention in Flordia while
their 'installers' are installing 'builders models' for $75/unit
in $250,000 homes.  The home owner calls me because the fan is
loud and there is very little heat.
	You have it right Willie, install a quality product and
stand behind it.
Skip Jackson
Fireside Engineering
Cincinnati Ohio
 
 

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Subject: mantel answer
From: "Ben Weathersby" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:54:13 -0500
 
Subject: Question from England
From: "Craig Issod" <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:03:20 -0500
 
Got this question today...anyone have a good answer?
 
Dear Experts,
My younger sister is much intrigued with why a mantlepiece is so
called and it would be very handy if you were to explain this to me.
Please mail me back.
Fran from Marsden
 
Fran from Marsden,
Mantle (or mantel) comes from the Latin word for cloak or cover. So 
here's my guess:
Fireplaces were originally out on the floor in middle of the room. 
When they were moved to a position in a wall (and chimneys added), 
there was a gap between the fireplace and the wall to be covered. 
Probably originally intended to conceal or cover this gap, mantels 
became an architectural and often elaborate decoration to frame a 
favorite place in the house.
 
Hope your sister keeps you and others hopping with her curiosity.
Ben from Decatur