Air vents

cyclonebri1

Just keep as many of the airbrick vents as you can but ensure all can be throttled back with grills as several have suggested.

toozie_2

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

You need ventilation in any room regardless of balanced flue boilers, keeping the grills gives you the on/off or even 1/2 on/off option, bl;)ock them and if the condensation/damp issue arises, you have more work.

Ye, think we're going to go with making them a brick size, and buying new white vents, and hopefully doing away with the one on the bedroom chimney breast altogether.

We are blocking up the fire place (which was once a coal fire but not used in several years) and bricking it up, and having an electric fire as stated above "floating" on the wall.
Would you put a larger vent behind the fire-out of view? This in on the wall joining next door, so we have a double chimney with them.
I think this chimney is capped-will look tonight-do we need a new vent there at all if it's capped.
There is already a horrible iron "falling apart" vent near the floor under the window in the room.

cyclonebri1

toozie wrote: »

Ye, think we're going to go with making them a brick size, and buying new white vents, and hopefully doing away with the one on the bedroom chimney breast altogether.

We are blocking up the fire place (which was once a coal fire but not used in several years) and bricking it up, and having an electric fire as stated above "floating" on the wall.
Would you put a larger vent behind the fire-out of view? This in on the wall joining next door, so we have a double chimney with them.
I think this chimney is capped-will look tonight-do we need a new vent there at all if it's capped.
There is already a horrible iron "falling apart" vent near the floor under the window in the room.

The chimney stack, ie the brickwork, as a whole is shared with the neighbour, but at no point is your opening connected to theirs.

If it's out of site behind an electric fire why don't you simply put in yet another sliding vent?
It shouldn't really be needed if the thing is capped, but it would be so much easier just to slide the thing open than bash out a brick if you ever wanted to re-instate a coal fire, and I'm told many people are now doing just that.