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Gas Fireplaces - massive amount of outside air leaking!?
Help - we just bought our house, with a gas fireplace (and neither of us knows what to do about it). Now that it's cold, we've noticed a significant draft of outside air through the fireplace vent. Like - it will flutter paper in front of it. We've got it blocked with a blanket right now, but this can't be the "normal" mode of operation. What should we look for, how can we fix this?
4 Answers
- daizzddreLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well if you look inside the chimney you will see a metal bar with a hole in it hanging. Reach inside with a fire place poker and hook it in the hole and move the metal bar to close the flue but remember that it is closed. You will need to open it should you want to start a fire or you could fill the house up with smoke. Very dangerous.
- Anonymous5 years ago
On fireplaces you should have a grate in the chimney to close. This stops the air from coming down. You open the grate when in use. and cause up draft threw the fire to feed it oxygen. Under the fire place but away from heat. Sealer foam. Comes in a arisol can and you shot it in. If not remove fire place and use shim stock under it. Sheet Metal very thin. and replace fire place.
- 1 decade ago
close the flue,its a flapper usually in the vent pipe that can be adjusted to adjust the air flow,good luck
- Anonymous1 decade ago
that can be dangerous, check and see if blower is blowin wrong way, "sucking air in through flue" It should use inside air to burn and exit through the flue but if air intake is blocked or blower is running backwards you get what you got.
