The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-27
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MODEL. FIREPLACE.
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ing a sectional area Of 144 square inches,
or one-tenth of the fireplace opening.
Depth of Fireplace.
Is quickly absorbed.
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An important consideration is the
depth of the fireplace, The distance from
the face of the fireplace to the fire brick
back, when intended to burn wood,
should never be less than eighteen
inches; and fourteen inches for a coal
CRATE There are the minimum depths;
il is advisable, in either case, to make
them two inches deeper.
The fireplace intended to burn cord
wood should be at least four feet six
inches wide. The dimensions Of fire.
place openings vary according to the
design They are usually from thirty
to forty-eight inches wide, eighteen
inches deep and from twenty-four to
thirty-six inches high. In bare ball
rooms, club rooms, cafes, hotel parloTs,
etc, they may greatly exceed these di-
mansions, while a coal CRATE for a bed
room or den may be much smaller.
In order to avoid frequent repairs,
and also TO lessen the danger Of the
floor timber becoming ignued by fire
dropping through cracks in the bricks,
all frepIaces should be lined with fire.
brick, and a tile flue is much better
than a cement plastered or a pointed up
flue. Garry the tile about two inches
above the chimney top, so that the wa
ter will not wash off the top Of the
chimney into the fiue.
The writer once saw a fireplace guar
anteed not to smoke. 1t was taken from
a fireplace shown the writer as beins
made by veteran mason, who had the
reputation of building fireplaces which
never smoked; and there is no question
but that he Is entitled to full credit on
this point. It would really be a diff
cult matter for a fireplace so construct
ed to smoke. The secret IN the con-
struction of his flue was the fact that
he made no provision for DETECTING the
heat, and provided a hue with q sec
tional area OF about one-third the fire.
place opening Since the latter is nearly
four feet high and very wide on all his
f1replaces, there is no doubt but that
Santa Claus could easily make his way
down and out again through such a
flue.
Pooriy-BuIIt Fireplace.
From a practical standpoint, how
ever, a f1ue so constructed is not to be
considered, since nearly all the heat es-
capes with the smoke. OF course, there
is little heat obtained from the side, the
same as one would receive from bon
fire built out-of-doors; but the fuel in
In such a fireplace burns very rapidly
and does not give off the amount of
heat that It should in proportion to the
fuel consumed.
Another fireplace was shown the
writer as having been constructed ON
scientific principles" and the owner
could not see why II was that II
smoked. In the first place. the soffit
Of the brick arch IN front was eight
inches wide. This alone would de-
fleet some smoke into the room. Then
the back Of the fireplace was curved
in such a manner that the smoke
would naturally be DETECTED forward,
requiring what little would go up the
chimney to make a right-angle turn In
doing so.
Many fireplaces smoke, but the rem
edy In most cases is very simple. The
common cause is the clogging up of
the chimney, during the construction
with rubbish Often a small piece of
board win be dropped into ii and, lodg-
ing at an angle in the chimney, prove
a hindrance to the draft until brick
0r stone is dropped down from above
to loosen and dislodge it, Another
common cause of smoking is the
damper used IN the throat. The slid