I am going to fit a log burner in a breakfast room which is open plan with the adjacent kitchen. The kitchen has a cooker hood, currently venting to an outside wall. When it is on it's highest setting, you can feel air being pulled in through the air brick vent in the breakfast room, which is going to affect the draw of the log burner. If the cooker hood was changed to recirculation, would this still affect the log burner.
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Your issue will be with lighting the log burner, if the extractor is on then it may draw air down the chimney. Is the stove 5kw nominal output or more?
Don't make the extractor recirc, it will cause condensation.
What I find works:
Turn extractor off
Ensure air brick, floor vent in the stove room is unobstructed and open
Have window open in the stove room
Light fire with Scandinavian method (fire lighter on the TOP of the stack of kindling) so the first burst of heat gets the column of cold air moving up the stovepipe
Stove vents fully open
Stove door slightly open
After 10 mins guaranteed a nice blazing fire, which you can then feed/close stove door etc and it should draw happily. If your place is so airtight it has issues with the extractor on then you need more air bricks, or get a stove with a direct air kit connected to the outside behind it
Don't make the extractor recirc, it will cause condensation.
What I find works:
Turn extractor off
Ensure air brick, floor vent in the stove room is unobstructed and open
Have window open in the stove room
Light fire with Scandinavian method (fire lighter on the TOP of the stack of kindling) so the first burst of heat gets the column of cold air moving up the stovepipe
Stove vents fully open
Stove door slightly open
After 10 mins guaranteed a nice blazing fire, which you can then feed/close stove door etc and it should draw happily. If your place is so airtight it has issues with the extractor on then you need more air bricks, or get a stove with a direct air kit connected to the outside behind it
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Have open plan kitchen lounge, extractor has no effect on our log burner . Stove install included additional vent around stove pipe .
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