We've just taken a fireplace out of one of the rooms in my daughter's Victorian flat. I appreciate that I should include a fixed vent to provide some ventilation for the stack. What's the most discrete way of doing this that doesn't make it look blindingly obvious that there's a blocked up fireplace. Just how much ventilation is required?
Tim
Brick sized louvre vent is the usual. Paint it if you want to disguise it but personally a metal vent looks quite smart, despite being obvious.
In one of our bedrooms there a "hit ormiss" ventilator in the skirting board. Under a table, so it's not at all obvious.
If the fireplace was on breast, then try and locate the vent on one of the side walls in an alcove that is not directly in view.
Richard
I had in mind maybe fitting a double socket back box (with extra holes) with a double socket blanking plate fitted with spacers to leave a 5mm gap all the way round. Would that work?
Tim
I suggest: none. Warm, moist air from the room will eventually meet a cold surface, and condensation will form. Admittedly, someone else's problem in a block of flats.
Kevin
If it backs onto an outside wall, it's better to vent it to the outside, and seal the inside, so it doesn't draw heat and moisture from the room. A regular air brick will do. It must be vented top and bottom so that there's a flow of air up it.
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