hey guys I’m having a tough time trying to find the answer for this. My fireplace has a blower kit. Not the heatilator kind that’s completely enclosed, but simply a pipe that sits above the grate that gets heated, and the external blower pushes air to be heated and kicked back out into the room. Since we know that traditional fireplaces are only around 10% efficiency, are these cheap blower kits yielding any decent efficiency? I have a wood stove at the opposite end of the house, but I can’t really tell if the fireplace blower actually warms the room up much. Just wondering if it’s best to leave for occasions where having a fire is nice, rather than wasting my wood. Thanks
Fireplace blower efficiency, worth it?
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The fireplace is probably costing you heat regardless if the blower is running or not, the only efficient open fireplace I know of is a rumford design.
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