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Living room heating (vent)

  • 14-12-2011 2:46pm
    #1
    DMBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭


    Hi all, hoping someone can offer some advice here. I have a vent in my living room (presumably for radon gas or something?) and also have an open fireplace. Cannot heat the room. When I put my hand over the vent I can feel the cold air, but this vent isn't closable, it just has lips that are pointed up.
    I also got a chimney balloon but not sure if that is making any difference either. I'm wondering if the vent and chimney together are creating some sort of current that's letting all the heat out.
    The two coldest rooms in the house are the living room and master bedroom which both have these vents, they just do not get warm at all.
    Any suggestions what I should do, seal them both up? What should I use to do that?

    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    heinbloed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭heinbloed


    These vents are for ventilation obviously.
    Contact a health and safety inspector, a civil engineer who will tell you what the actual purpose of them is.
    They might be installed to deliver combustion air,to avoid CO poisoning, to dillute radon, providing a certain pressure differential or what ever. Blocking them up without knowing their real purpose can be risky.
    Get specialist advise, without looking at the whole house situation no one can tell.


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