permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Scott Pittman wrote:
> At 07:14 PM 11/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
> > What I mean is that the stove will draw air from the house and vent it 
> > up the chimney.  There is some advantage IMO to supplying this air 
> > from the outdoors close to the stove, rather than drawing it from the 
> > house as a whole.
>
> I have always brought combustion air in from the outside in an under 
> floor pipe to the front of the wood stove or fireplace.  The reason was 
> that rather than using warmed indoor air for combustion I was using 
> outdoor air, and thereby saving energy. 

This is standard practice and another good reason to do it this wy is to
avoid oxygen depeltion in you living space. In a closed house during cold 
weather
when the stove is burning a lot of fuel you need an external supply of oxygen.

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