Log burner air ducting
Discussion
Evening all, seems log burners are a bit of a theme at the moment...
I currently live in a draughty old stone farmhouse with a solid fuel rayburn, an open fire and a log burner... I'm a year into a full renovation, and the next major task is to dig up the earth floors and re-lay them complete with underfloor heating.
In doing so, I would like to put a pipe in to supply air to the open fire and log burnerto prevent drafts howling through the place - curently the three fires are competing for air if all three are lit together.
Can anyone suggest a company/method to do so - I would like a pipe from outside (via a wall vent/air brick type thing) leading to a floor vent directly in front of the fires ideally with a catch pan to make cleaning easier.
All three fires are on internal walls, so a sealed system is out of the question.
I find it hard to believe there is no off the shelf system for this, and don't want to have to resort to cobbling something together if possible.
Cheers
Tom
I currently live in a draughty old stone farmhouse with a solid fuel rayburn, an open fire and a log burner... I'm a year into a full renovation, and the next major task is to dig up the earth floors and re-lay them complete with underfloor heating.
In doing so, I would like to put a pipe in to supply air to the open fire and log burnerto prevent drafts howling through the place - curently the three fires are competing for air if all three are lit together.
Can anyone suggest a company/method to do so - I would like a pipe from outside (via a wall vent/air brick type thing) leading to a floor vent directly in front of the fires ideally with a catch pan to make cleaning easier.
All three fires are on internal walls, so a sealed system is out of the question.
I find it hard to believe there is no off the shelf system for this, and don't want to have to resort to cobbling something together if possible.
Cheers
Tom
My Hwam stove came with an optional kit that allows it to be fed air from under the floor, it should just be a case of extending it to the air brick. Mine is fed from under the suspended floor with no pipe to the air bricks and it works fine so I am not sure that you really need the extra pipe, it will suck air through the airbricks anyway as long as your floor is reasonably airtight.
You just run a pipe from an external vent, under your new floor to the hearth. We did this in our house. Once you know what stove you're fitting you'll know what size pipe you need. A 4" pipe was big enough for one stove, the other was 6" I think but I'm not sure it needed to be that big.
Check the stove you're fitting will take air feed directly if you don't want it vented to the room.
Check the stove you're fitting will take air feed directly if you don't want it vented to the room.
A lot of stove manufacturers do provide relatively off the shelf stuff - here's Clearview's for their smallest stove: http://www.clearviewstoves.com/accessory-details/e...
Thank you all, the ducting online is exactly what im after, as I don'want to be restricted to choice of stove (or even whether to keep one fireplace as an open fire).
Flexibility is the name of the game here, as this summer's job is going to be digging floors and laying heating/services, so trying to keep options open as much as possible.
Tom
Flexibility is the name of the game here, as this summer's job is going to be digging floors and laying heating/services, so trying to keep options open as much as possible.
Tom
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