2007-12-07 07:20:34 · 10 answers · asked by Dee F 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
When you open the damper, it's like opening a window. If the draft is good, your room doesn't get smoky.
I would invest in a fireplace door thing-a-ma-jig. It's like a sliding glass door. My mother's has a unit on the bottom that blows the warm air into her livingroom.
2007-12-07 12:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, disregard the answers that suggest closing the damper a little. You want the smoke to freely go up the flue.
The fireplace is drawing air through the windows in the rest of the house. What I do is open a window right next to the fireplace a couple of inches. Then the fire will draw it's oxygen supply from there and not the rest of the house.
A wood-burning stove is the best way to get most of the heat from the fire into the house but it also builds up creosote in the flue so get it swept annually.
2007-12-07 08:00:15 · answer #2 · answered by Bill G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because your fireplace literally sucks the warm air out of your house. A standard wood burning fireplace is actually a very poor heat source. Most of the warm air travels up the chimney and draws the already heated air out of your house with it. Which means that cold air is actually being drawn into your house to replace the warm air going "up in smoke.
2007-12-07 07:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by homer04 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fireplaces draw quite a bit of air up the chimney along with the smoke. That air comes from the house. The heat produced by the fire is usually less than the heat being removed from the living area. They are aesthetically pleasing but lousy heat sources.
2007-12-07 07:26:42 · answer #4 · answered by James H 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Now that you have heard why it gets colder, you can do something about it. Glass doors were designed to stop this somewhat. They are not airtight so they allow some air to go up the chimney but keep the majority in the house. I found that my Franklin Stove caused 17 cubic feet per second of air to be exhausted out the chimney. Got glass doors and solved the problem. The glass also radiates heat into the room.
2007-12-07 08:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you light a fire in an open fireplace, the air from your home is drawn into the place, is heated and it rises right out the chimney. To prevent that from happening, replace the screen with a glass enclosure. (¦<)>
2007-12-07 07:32:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fire places are not efficient. They take more heat out Of a room than they put in. The fire causes the air in the room to mix with the flame and sent up the chimney, causing a draft in the room by pulling air into it from the outside through leaky drafty window and doors You could try closing the damper a little so that smoke exhausts and not enter the room, close the doors in that room and insulate or stop leaky draft.
2007-12-07 07:25:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is because you have great ventilation when you open the damper in the fireplace. You might want to consider slightly closing the damper the next time.
2007-12-07 07:26:00 · answer #8 · answered by Glenn B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your furnace thermostat is in the same room as your fireplace then your furnace will not come on because of the room being warm from the heat of the fireplace, thus making the rest of your rooms cold.
2007-12-07 07:28:07 · answer #9 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Heat rises so it pulls cold air into the room through windows, under doors and other locations that leak until the base temperature rises in the room
2007-12-07 07:27:13 · answer #10 · answered by Timothy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋