Air supply to open fire - and chimney lining

Tim Streater · 2010-01-06T23:13:35+00:00

We have two open fireplaces in this housed we just moved into. In the longer term, one may get replaced by a wood burner. I'd like to arrange for outside air to be piped in so that no room air (roughly speaking) need be used to feed the fire(s). Is this anything that folks do and if so how routine is it. House is 1930 approx.The layout is two sitting rooms with fireplaces back to back. Can't tell if first floors also had fireplaces. What is the likelihood that the two chimneys for the ground floor fireplaces would be merged at a higher level in the chimney? If they are, and we need to line the chimney for a wood-burner, does this mean that the other fireplace becomes completely unusable?

Jan 06, 2010 22 Replies

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george [dicegeorge] 16 years ago

so have a separate air feed to the burner coming along a pipe from outside the house.

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The Natural Philosopher 16 years ago

My two open fires are cracking out about 5Kw apiece right now.

CH has switched off in a sulk.

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The Natural Philosopher 16 years ago

certainly the victorians and even the tudors had one pot per fireplace. Big mansions have billions of pots.

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