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Wood burning Outside Air Kit - yes or no?

leee
13 years ago

Hello,

I have looked through the forum but most outside air kit questions seem to deal mostly with pellet or gas. I guess Lennox calls it a Combustion Air Inlet on the drawings for my fireplace. So, I own a 1.5 year old house with a Lennox BR-36-2 like in the following link........

http://www.hansenwholesale.com/fireplaces/lennox/br-36.html

When I burn wood it heats up the living room great but seems to remove all of the heated air from the far corners of the house (from wood combustion) making the upatairs rooms ice cold. Will the outside air kit like this..........

http://cgi.ebay.com/FOAK-4LD-12-Outside-Air-Kit-4-Less-Duct-12-Pack-/170322090418?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0amp;hash=item27a7fcd9b2

.....kit help with this at all? I would like to improve combustion and minimize the already heated air from the inside going up the fireplace. Is it generally a good or bad idea, I dont want to pay all the money for installation and find out it was not beneficial. Thank you.

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