It is not, but it's also not on an exterior wall. My plan was to use the left over rockwool to throw it down the chimeny, to help insulate the liner more. I'm also wondering if I can unsulate the bottom of the chimney cap/metal outlet thing. This would effectively seal the whole chimney interior off, and insulate it.
Today, we have a low of 28 deg. I started a fire at 1pm, and our house was 64 deg. I've put a few logs on since I got her going, but it's now a toasty 74 in the house. The issue is the house layout:
I work from home these days, on the left most upper corner red circle. Our living room is the upper right red circle.
The fireplace insert is located in the lower right corner room, which we don't use much. Since nobody is visiting us this year, we have relocated our bedroom to this room so the insert will at least provide heat before we go to bed.
The main problem is the thermostat that controls the furnace is the GREEN CIRCLE, located 8' from the fireplace. Running a fire means the boiler will basically never fire, and the other side of the house will get pretty cold.
Also, the Osburn manual says to close the air valve adjustment completely for maximum efficiency. Is this true? I thought closing it made it less efficient since its' not burning as hot?
The other issue is my girlfriend is being completely unreasonable about safe fire practices when we go to bed. She wants me to extinguish the fire completely before we sleep. Her relative is a fire fighter and has been to many house fires that started with fireplaces, so she thinks we cannot be unconscious while a fire goes out. Is that reasonable or ridiculous?