We recently bought a house with a brick fireplace. I use newspaper, kindling, and firewood to build my fires. Unfortunately, our living room tends to get visibly smoky particulary at light up and sometimes when manipulating the fire to keep it lit. The fireplace has an ash door in the bottom and a pull chain flue above (obviously opened prior to lighting). There is NO damper (part of the mechanism exists but the damper was removed sometime before we bought the house). Additiontally, there is no other significant spot for air exchange in the house where I could imagine a vacuum being created to draw the smoke inward.
2007-02-05
06:33:05
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Hai Karate
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Maintenance & Repairs