I will be framing off a boiler room for a Solo Innova 50 in the back of our garage. It will be completely walled of from the garage, door to the outside only. Per code I need to vent 175 square inches of combustion air into the room, either from the main body of the house or from the outside. There are drawbacks to using either outside or inside air. The drawback to the use of inside air is that any smoke from the boiler that escapes could circulate into the house. On the other hand outside air would be cold and would cause heat loss in the boiler room, so I'd prefer to use inside air if possible. Also don't want to take any chance on frozen pipes on days I have to work away from home.
I purchased the Solo Innova specifically as it is supposed to power exhaust any smoke right up the flue when you open the boiler's door (Froling's supposed to do that too). Could anyone with a Solo Innova say if this is true in practice? Do you have any smoke issues with your Solo Innova? If there is a significant amount of smoke that escapes, I'll go with outside combustion air. If not, inside combustion air it is. What would your advice be?
Mike
I purchased the Solo Innova specifically as it is supposed to power exhaust any smoke right up the flue when you open the boiler's door (Froling's supposed to do that too). Could anyone with a Solo Innova say if this is true in practice? Do you have any smoke issues with your Solo Innova? If there is a significant amount of smoke that escapes, I'll go with outside combustion air. If not, inside combustion air it is. What would your advice be?
Mike