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Experience the warmth of Chelsea Hearth & Fireplaces in Oak Tree Plaza

Chelsea Hearth & Fireplaces held a grand re-opening Friday morning.

There’s no mistaking the warmth inside Chelsea Hearth & Fireplaces, which held a grand re-opening and ribbon cutting on Friday morning, Oct. 12.

The store, which specializes in high-end, high-efficiency home heating products, has an “overall goal to help save people money,” said Chris Livengood, who owns the retail store in the Oak Tree Plaza on Old US-12, with her husband, Ron Livengood.

Chris and Ron Livengood inside the store.

Inside the store, visitors can see gas, wood and wood pellet fireplace inserts as well as wood pellet and wood-burning stoves, all of which are between 70- and 85-percent energy efficient.

Chris Livengood told the crowd that arrived for the ribbon-cutting that her reason for originally researching energy alternatives was because of the high costs of heating her home with propane gas.

“The costs drove us to look at alternatives,” she said, adding that she and her husband tested a lot of products before choosing the lines she sells in the recently reopened store.

“If they don’t pass my husband’s test, we don’t carry them,” she said.

State Rep. Mark Ouimet, R-Scio Township, told the crowd that it’s small businesses like the Livengood’s that are “the engines that have turned this state around.”

And, after Chris Livengood closed her former business, Chelsea Rentals & Hearth Sales due to health reasons in March, she downsized and refocused her efforts on the hearth side of the business, re-opening Chelsea Hearth & Fireplaces earlier this month.

Hearth & Fireplaces was welcomed back to the business community by Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce President Bruce Szcodronski.

“We’d like to formally welcome you back; we love having you back in the business community,” he said.

For previous coverage of this new Chelsea store, click here.

 

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