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From: jss@ihu1e.UUCP (Smith)
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Subject: Re: Help with poorly drawing chimney
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 17:41:06 EST
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/** burn this **/

> > a metal screen and glass doors. When the doors are closed, the fire
> > burns better (hotter), and the flue draws well. When I open the glass
> > doors to add wood, or let more heat into the room, then
> > in comes the smoke.

Try to make sure the the doors are all the way open.  If you open them part
way they act like a chimney drawing coold room air from the bottom and
expelling smoke from the top.  (We had some that were a bad design so that
when they were open the glass part always extended.  We got Sears to
exchange them.)
-- 
J. S. Smith AT&T IW
	There are lots of opinions around this place, but these 
	are mine and no one else's (pitty the poor soul if they 
	do share mine.)