(PIC NOT RELATED) FIREPLACE ISSUE

unless the fireplace is in the middle of the house or connected to ducts it won't do a lot.

>>1130177
>American style fireplace

>>1130177
>Fireplace can be substitute radiators?
no, not unless there is a fireplace in every room, or it is a very small house

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>>1130195
You some kind of faggot?

Fireplaces for heating are all about the bricks.

Ideally, you want proper air flow to circulate the warm air, and a heat exchanger.

I rented a house with a fireplace that had thick steel doors and turned the entire corner of the room into a heat stove. Couldn't be in the same room BC it was 95+ degrees (F) but the rest of the house was toasty.

For standard American style, you can get decent, but not great, heat if you use old wood. More if you've got glass doors that will increase air speed while supplying sufficient volume. This drastically increases resulting temps. It also decreases burn time, but the net effect is positive.

There's a lot of things you can do to increase fireplace efficiency. About the only one you won't see on google is setting up some stones in front of the fireplace.

In the end, though, it's likely that 1) the chimney isn't positioned for utility but for aesthetics, 2) you'll have to buy wood and it won't be aged, 3) the doors, if there, are for snuffing and not heating, and 4) the house's air flow won't work without paying $ for fans to circulate the air. End result - cheaper to pay for heat.

BUT - there's tons of shit you can do to cut heating cists that people don't do. $3 in peelable caulk can save you $100 over a winter by sealing windows. Use foam strips (sculpted with a utility knife) to make every door a good seal. Then do a smoke test (go around looking for drafts).

And if you're patient enough to make it look good, you can put plastic sheets over windows.

Legit - the average person can cut heating costs by half with a $20 trip to ace hardware.

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>>1130177
Single fireplaces, unless your house is one room, are basically decorative. If it's a living room fireplaces it is basically just there when you want to impress your lady and bone on the carpet without freezing. Or when company comes over (or maybe both, I don't judge). If it has fans built into the stonework (sometimes called a 'Heatilator', after the company, picture related) then you might have something. Just ghetto-rigging up some fans to it isn't the same thing, though. Probably just make your house smokey.

You might look into a fireplace insert that has a fan. Those fuckers will get your house cooking. They aren't cheap, though. Good ones cost a few grand with including the installation. If you are playing $300 a month they can pay for themselves in a few seasons, assuming fuel for them is cheap. Firewood/pellets are cheap as shit where I live so many people use them.

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>>1130177
>Luckily we got big american style fireplace in my living room
You mean the fireplace is open, when you burn shit in it you can touch the flames? Those are worthless.
As a northerner I find it entertaining that you have a heating bill of just 300monies. That's heating for one cold month here!

The proper way to heat with fire is pic related, a big pile of bricks. The hot gasess first rise in ducts up to the top and from there go back down and exit through the back in the chimney. The longer the gasess stay in the fireplace the more there is heat exchange.

We have a open fireplace at our summer place and boy does that thing eat wood for nonexistent heating! The fire needs to be contained and the heat needs to be extracted somehow. You can get off a bit more through by installing this:
http://www.minnajones.com/2014/12/the-new-fireplace-70-luvun-avotakasta.html?m=1

It is called a "takkasydän" and it heats the air in the house, not just spews hot air through the chimney and sucks cold in trough the walls, doors and windows.

>>1130177

If you are asking can you heat radiators with an open fire the answer is pretty much no. The money spent on heat regulation is not worth it, and can potentially be dangerous.

Is your house well insulated? Is the appliance set up correctly?

>>1130316
>bone on the carpet

it burrrrns