[Greenbuilding] Fireplace questions

[Corwyn]

On Nov 08, 2006, at 10:56, David Delaney wrote:

> At 08:56 AM 08/11/2006, Corwyn wrote:
>
>> People heated their houses for centuries with fireplaces.
>
> They heated mainly themselves by huddling around the fire to intercept
> thermal radiation.  The fire didn't really heat anything that it could 
> not see.

It never does.

> My experience of a couple of houses in England in the 70's is
> that houses "heated" by fireplaces were as cold as outside except
> in front of the fireplace. And I did damn nearly freeze in them.

And the insulation in them was what?

Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn

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