Comments on: Heating Your Home: Why Open Fireplaces Don’t Heat http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/ Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Witold http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-61269 Witold Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:14:40 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-61269 It is yet another sad statement about what an open fireplace is, yet it isn't. I, for one, suggest you looking up material on a Rumford fireplace, it might shed some new light on your bogus idea of lack of heat coming out of an open fireplace. When such a fireplace is constructed properly, it gives off quite a significant amount of heat back into the room. Main trouble is that it needs to be build to utilize the radiant heat. Again, read up on the Rumford and update your article, or argue what's been proven time and again many decades ago. It is yet another sad statement about what an open fireplace is, yet it isn’t. I, for one, suggest you looking up material on a Rumford fireplace, it might shed some new light on your bogus idea of lack of heat coming out of an open fireplace. When such a fireplace is constructed properly, it gives off quite a significant amount of heat back into the room. Main trouble is that it needs to be build to utilize the radiant heat. Again, read up on the Rumford and update your article, or argue what’s been proven time and again many decades ago.

]]> By: Witold http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-97923 Witold Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:14:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-97923 It is yet another sad statement about what an open fireplace is, yet it isn't. I, for one, suggest you looking up material on a Rumford fireplace, it might shed some new light on your bogus idea of lack of heat coming out of an open fireplace. When such a fireplace is constructed properly, it gives off quite a significant amount of heat back into the room. Main trouble is that it needs to be build to utilize the radiant heat. Again, read up on the Rumford and update your article, or argue what's been proven time and again many decades ago. It is yet another sad statement about what an open fireplace is, yet it isn’t. I, for one, suggest you looking up material on a Rumford fireplace, it might shed some new light on your bogus idea of lack of heat coming out of an open fireplace. When such a fireplace is constructed properly, it gives off quite a significant amount of heat back into the room. Main trouble is that it needs to be build to utilize the radiant heat. Again, read up on the Rumford and update your article, or argue what’s been proven time and again many decades ago.

]]> By: Vicki http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-33191 Vicki Mon, 04 May 2009 23:48:09 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-33191 We have an open fireplace to cook on, in a 3 sided tin shed.(the fireplace is on a angle in the back left hand corner as you look at it )We can't seem to get the smoke to go out the chimney stack in the roof above. We have cut a small window in both side walls above the fireplace as well as the chimney above.The wind rushes past the front of the shed and sucks out the smoke. Any suggestions? Regards Vicki We have an open fireplace to cook on, in a 3 sided tin shed.(the fireplace is on a angle in the back left hand corner as you look at it )We can’t seem to get the smoke to go out the chimney stack in the roof above. We have cut a small window in both side walls above the fireplace as well as the chimney above.The wind rushes past the front of the shed and sucks out the smoke. Any suggestions?

Regards
Vicki

]]> By: Vicki http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-97922 Vicki Mon, 04 May 2009 23:48:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-97922 We have an open fireplace to cook on, in a 3 sided tin shed.(the fireplace is on a angle in the back left hand corner as you look at it )We can't seem to get the smoke to go out the chimney stack in the roof above. We have cut a small window in both side walls above the fireplace as well as the chimney above.The wind rushes past the front of the shed and sucks out the smoke. Any suggestions? Regards Vicki We have an open fireplace to cook on, in a 3 sided tin shed.(the fireplace is on a angle in the back left hand corner as you look at it )We can’t seem to get the smoke to go out the chimney stack in the roof above. We have cut a small window in both side walls above the fireplace as well as the chimney above.The wind rushes past the front of the shed and sucks out the smoke. Any suggestions?

Regards
Vicki

]]> By: Ken http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-17765 Ken Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:50:06 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-17765 Seeing how much energy can be lost in a fireplace has deterred me very little in using mine. However, I'm wondering if there is some kind of turbine, or a conversion kit or something that can be installed to convert lost heat energy into electricity to power my home. Has anyone else even heard of something like this? I've looked all over the internet but have yet to find anything at all on the subject. It seems logical to me that hot air moving up a chimney could be converted to electrical energy. Seeing how much energy can be lost in a fireplace has deterred me very little in using mine. However, I’m wondering if there is some kind of turbine, or a conversion kit or something that can be installed to convert lost heat energy into electricity to power my home. Has anyone else even heard of something like this? I’ve looked all over the internet but have yet to find anything at all on the subject. It seems logical to me that hot air moving up a chimney could be converted to electrical energy.

]]> By: Ken http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-97921 Ken Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:50:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-97921 Seeing how much energy can be lost in a fireplace has deterred me very little in using mine. However, I'm wondering if there is some kind of turbine, or a conversion kit or something that can be installed to convert lost heat energy into electricity to power my home. Has anyone else even heard of something like this? I've looked all over the internet but have yet to find anything at all on the subject. It seems logical to me that hot air moving up a chimney could be converted to electrical energy. Seeing how much energy can be lost in a fireplace has deterred me very little in using mine. However, I’m wondering if there is some kind of turbine, or a conversion kit or something that can be installed to convert lost heat energy into electricity to power my home. Has anyone else even heard of something like this? I’ve looked all over the internet but have yet to find anything at all on the subject. It seems logical to me that hot air moving up a chimney could be converted to electrical energy.

]]> By: vedenev http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-7008 vedenev Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:39:39 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-7008 See new calculation result on the bottom of the page: http://simulations.narod.ru/ideas/eeh_en.html I made calculation of cooling of soil with boreholes-radiators. See new calculation result on the bottom of the page:
http://simulations.narod.ru/ideas/eeh_en.html
I made calculation of cooling of soil with boreholes-radiators.

]]> By: vedenev http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-97920 vedenev Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:39:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-97920 See new calculation result on the bottom of the page: http://simulations.narod.ru/ideas/eeh_en.html I made calculation of cooling of soil with boreholes-radiators. See new calculation result on the bottom of the page:
http://simulations.narod.ru/ideas/eeh_en.html
I made calculation of cooling of soil with boreholes-radiators.

]]> By: JerryG http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-4926 JerryG Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:47:38 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-4926 It is worth mentioning here that metal dampers in firepalces are also notoriosly bad at stopping air from entering the house and dampers allow heat to escape. If your goal is to stop heat loss and cold air inflitration while you are NOT using your fireplace then you can use a chimney balloon as a damper to stop this from happening. It is worth mentioning here that metal dampers in firepalces are also notoriosly bad at stopping air from entering the house and dampers allow heat to escape. If your goal is to stop heat loss and cold air inflitration while you are NOT using your fireplace then you can use a chimney balloon as a damper to stop this from happening.

]]> By: JerryG http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-97919 JerryG Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:47:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/06/01/heating-your-home-why-open-fireplaces-dont-heat/#comment-97919 It is worth mentioning here that metal dampers in firepalces are also notoriosly bad at stopping air from entering the house and dampers allow heat to escape. If your goal is to stop heat loss and cold air inflitration while you are NOT using your fireplace then you can use a chimney balloon as a damper to stop this from happening. It is worth mentioning here that metal dampers in firepalces are also notoriosly bad at stopping air from entering the house and dampers allow heat to escape. If your goal is to stop heat loss and cold air inflitration while you are NOT using your fireplace then you can use a chimney balloon as a damper to stop this from happening.

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