HOMEOWNERS Fireplaces Heat Up (NAPSA)—If you want to add some spark to a tired-looking room, take a look at yourfireplace. A well maintained or spruced-up hearth can add warmth—figuratively and literally—to most any home. Fireplaces can add comfort, warmth and style to a room. Today, many products for the hearth—including dampers, fire tools, fire screens, the hardware on glass hearth doors, cinder buckets and log stands—keep their shine and last longer because they have undergone a process called powder coating. Powder coating is a finishing method wherebyfinely ground particles of pigment andresin are electrostatically charged and sprayed onto a surface. Hearth products that have the coating are highly resistant to scratching, chipping, fading and wearing. Fireplaces, however, aren’t the only things to benefit from a powdercoating. Fire extinguishersare coated as well. For more information and a free “Consumer Buying Guide for Home and Garden,” visit the Web site at www.powdercoating.org or write The Powder Coating Institute at 2121 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 401, Alexandria, VA 22314.
