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I'm currently living in an old house, with a fairly antiquated CH system, the heart of which is an 'Ideal Mexico 2' boiler, which sits in a Boiler Room in the middle of the house. The house is a weird design, having been through some changes over the years, ending up with what I assume was once an outside window now in an internal hallway. That window is open, I'm told to ventilate the room for the boiler, but only open into the house, which we should assume is far from airtight. The 'outside' of the window is directly above a radiator, so a fairly substantial heat loss and one I'd like to address.
The boiler has a proper closed flue, exiting through a chimney stack, so I'm assuming the need for further ventilation is to supply air, not to expel gasses?
There is in fact a low level vent which goes under the floor space to the outside, via 2 side-by-side pipes with grilles on both ends, so I'm not sure why this secondary ventilation 'solution' is needed. Any thoughts? If the 'window vent' is doing anything at all, I want to board over the window and add a simple vent grille as it'll be a nicer solution.
By the way, this is all very temporary, this place will probably getting fully renovated or rebuilt within the next year or two.
The boiler has a proper closed flue, exiting through a chimney stack, so I'm assuming the need for further ventilation is to supply air, not to expel gasses?
There is in fact a low level vent which goes under the floor space to the outside, via 2 side-by-side pipes with grilles on both ends, so I'm not sure why this secondary ventilation 'solution' is needed. Any thoughts? If the 'window vent' is doing anything at all, I want to board over the window and add a simple vent grille as it'll be a nicer solution.
By the way, this is all very temporary, this place will probably getting fully renovated or rebuilt within the next year or two.