I have a stone fireplace with two louvers in the hearth and two up high. The two lower louvers have 6" fans that circulate heat through the two upper registers. I would like to replace the fans due to loud noise and lack of efficiency, but I can't find fans anywhere on the web. the lower louver would accept an 8" fan. Any help would be greatly appreciated. These appear to possibly be fans that weren't neccesarily designed for fireplaces.
Help with fireplace fans?????
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Yeah, Im sure they need a good cleaning. They are very dusty. I just figured I'd replace them with some more efficient fans since they are approxiamtley 35-40 years old. But I couldn't find them anywhere. Thanks.
Yeah, I really don't feel much heat coming out of the top returns. I thought that maybe new faster fans may push out more heat. Your right though it may be a waste of time and money. not being able to find the fans may make my decision for me.
My fireplace has the same thing. I tried s fan at each of the bottom 2 vents - did very little. Installing a wood insert this winter.
rabbitt said:
If that is the case, I'd try removing the fans and anything else that would obstruct airflow and see if natural convection will kick in some and get a flow of heat going through there. If the back of the air passages actually get warmed up much you should get some heating and natural draft flowing through I would think, but I wouldn't expect it to be very strong so it may not take much (dead fans etc) to obstruct the flow.
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