About NFI Professionals
You're choosing an appliance that can bring years of warmth and comfort to your home... if it's installed properly.
Harnessing the beauty and warmth of fire for the home is not a do-it-yourself project or something you should necessarily trust to the lowest bidder. The hearth in any home is a focal point and center for family enjoyment. As such, it calls for important decisions about the appropriate appliance or products for your goals. Proper placement, venting and protection from combustibles are very important considerations. Both for safety and performance, hearth products require considerable technical knowledge and skill in the designing and installation of them.
How do hearth professionals achieve
Certification?
NFI Certification means that an individual has passed a rigorous examination based on a training manual that has been reviewed by industry experts. The training manual for each hearth specialty is a comprehensive reference source for the fundamentals of that subject area, and includes essential topics such as combustion theory, fuel comparisons, safety code regulations, appliance design and sizing. Certification may be earned by hearth industry professionals in three
hearth specialties:
* NFI Gas Specialist
* NFI Woodburning Specialist
* NFI Pellet Specialist
For more information visit: http://www.nficertified.org/pages_consumers/consumers-1.html
