Building Science: A Ventless Gas Fireplace Doesn’t Belong in Your Home

A Ventless Gas Fireplace Doesn’t Belong in Your Home |

greenbuildingadvisor.com 23 Jan '13, 11am

Building Science: A Ventless Gas Fireplace Doesn’t Belong in Your Home

He reached out to me to tell me that every year in the heating season, they get a lot of complaints from people who have ventless gas fireplaces in their homes. They want to find out if it's really true that these appliances could be the cause of their health problems and what they can do about it. While he was writing to me, he said he had a man in his showroom whose wife sent him there to "get the correct information about their vent-free logs they have in there home. She had told him go to BMC and get the facts, that she was not crazy, that the logs were making her head hurt and making her sick."

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@snyd » 29 Jan '13, 5am
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@MartinHolladay » 23 Jan '13, 3pm
Allison Bailes explains why you don't want an unvented gas space heater (which uses your living room as a chimney) - [link]
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