What is a passive house gas fireplace?
- This type of gas fireplace is designed with no direct Air Draw / Pull from the room to which the fire is fitted. In simple terms, a manufactured pipe, supplied with the gas fire is "a pipe within a pipe"
The outer section of the pipe is the air intake pipe - that draws air in to the fire chamber for the flame to burn and generate its heat.
As Passive Home Gas Fires / Passive House gas fires are extremely efficient so there is very little heat loss from this type of gas appliance.....as low as 6%
The "inner pipe within a pipe" is the exhaust pipe for the fire to which the products of combustion go our.
BER home ratings in Ireland are higher with a Passive house Gas Fireplace.
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