Hi All,
I am not sure if this comes under the heading of building, or central heating, or what...
I have a Parkray solid fuel room-heater in the living room. Sad but true - we have no gas in our village... they wanted £1000 per house to install it 15 years ago so we all told them to stuff it...
Anyway... summer is fine, but when we have the fire in overnight we both wake up with awful headaches in the back of our necks...
Can the fumes from the Parkray be drawn back down the adjoining chimney into our bedroom? I wonder if we are getting carbon monoxide problems? (Getting a tester tomorrow - had forgotten about the problem over the summer...)
I bricked-up the fireplace which was in our bedroom, leaving a space the size of a brick to allow some ventilation as there is no airbrick in the room.
If so, how can we avoid this? I understand that sealing a chimney can lead to damp problems, but I don't hear of people dying of damp! Getting rusty, maybe...
We have double glazing throughout.
Regards,
NMG
I am not sure if this comes under the heading of building, or central heating, or what...
I have a Parkray solid fuel room-heater in the living room. Sad but true - we have no gas in our village... they wanted £1000 per house to install it 15 years ago so we all told them to stuff it...
Anyway... summer is fine, but when we have the fire in overnight we both wake up with awful headaches in the back of our necks...
Can the fumes from the Parkray be drawn back down the adjoining chimney into our bedroom? I wonder if we are getting carbon monoxide problems? (Getting a tester tomorrow - had forgotten about the problem over the summer...)
I bricked-up the fireplace which was in our bedroom, leaving a space the size of a brick to allow some ventilation as there is no airbrick in the room.
If so, how can we avoid this? I understand that sealing a chimney can lead to damp problems, but I don't hear of people dying of damp! Getting rusty, maybe...
We have double glazing throughout.
Regards,
NMG