I would like to know if anyone has installed a gas fireplace that has distribution ducts to help heat other areas. I have a veiw-out basement that I would like to distribute heat to. The fireplce would be centraly located and I would like to run round ducts to two bedrooms about 30 feet and 45 feet away. Any ideas?
Thanks
Rich
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Have a wood fireplace with distribution ducts. The firebox has water walls (pipes with water in them) that circulate to finned coils in heat ducts and also hot water baseboard heaters, chimeny has flue gas to water heat excahngers also. Same should work for gas, but probably an affordable installation would have to be DIY. If you don't have a good working knowledge of heat exchangers**, trying to heat with gas this way vs commercial furnace will be waste of $$$$$.
** mine was fp/flue gas - water - house double conversion, as I would not trust my welding skills to produce gas tight welds for fireplace to air duct exchanger where families' health is at stake.
Thanks Junkhound, I think I will be giving up on the idea of trying to duct off some of the heat and distribute it around a rather large basement. I think I will wait and see of the heat circulates naturally, I can try something else lf it doesn't at a later time.
Thanks again