Smart Homes: A chilling fact about fireplaces

Smart Homes: A chilling fact about fireplaces
If you have a standard open masonry fireplace, your house actually may be colder than if you did not burn a fire. Although the room with the fireplace may be warm when a fire is burning, overall more heat is being drawn from the rest of your house and lost up the chimney.

What makes things worse is that most chimney dampers do not seal well and heated air is sucked up your chimney 24 hours each day. When you are not using your fireplace, insert an inflatable chimney balloon (also called a chimney pillow) into the flue to seal it. Battic Door makes an easy-to-install one. There also are chimney-top dampers that operate from indoors.

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