• Thursday, November 06th, 2008
Negative air pressure in the house brings air in through the largest opening - the chimney. It makes quite a smokey smell in the house. I like it, but it was making Brian sick. There’s no problem as long as there’s a fire, but when there’s no fire, the smell is all over the house. We’ve read online that lighting a candle and placing it in the fireplace will help (since it draws air from the house and “up” the chimney). So far, it’s reduced the smell enough for Brian. It’s not a bad smell, just smokey.
Category: House
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Friday, 7. November 2008
It’s there a closing thing in the chimney/fireplace? No idea what it’s called in English, but on our chimney it’s a handle between the metal insert and the concrete part of the fireplace (quite hidden and almost invisible unless you know it’s there).
Here is a picture of the fireplace: http://www.geekhouse.no/Gallery/livingrooms/R0014040
If you have it, it will close the huge vent the chimney makes, so air will be drawn in through other ventilation openings.
Just remember to open the thing again when you want to USE the fireplace
Friday, 7. November 2008
We don’t have anything in front of the fireplace other than a simple metal grate to keep the cats out of the fireplace, it doesn’t close
We also have a flue (the thing inside the chimney that closes the chimney off) but it doesn’t close all the way, and we were told by the chimney sweep that it was in good shape. We’d rather not get glass or anything else to completely close off the fireplace, but if we still have a problem with the smell, we might consider it.
http://flickr.com/photos/elwing/3009678733/in/photostream/