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Posted by tbasc@bellsouth.net on January 13, 2007, 8:20 am
jkdrummer@yahoo.com wrote:
> We have a home that has a gas fireplace in the basement and a wood
> burning fireplace on the upper floor. When we start a fire in the
> upper fp we smell smoke downstairs. There's no damper on the gas one
> downstairs. The gas one has a pipe that goes up the brick work to the
> outside. We noticed this smell got worse after we installed a chimney
> cap for the wood fp. So does some of the smoke go down the pipe of our
> basement gas fp? If that's the case what can we do to prevent this?
>
> Thanks
> JaKe
> Seattle
Following up on Pawlowski's comment:
The flue in the gas fireplace may be furnishing make up air for the
wood burning fireplace.
TB
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