Fireplace Size For Room

The same thing goes for stone on each side.

Fireplace size for room.

The great room that the fireplace will be built in is 16 feet wide by 25 feet deep 400 sq ft with 10 ceilings. I d hoped to have as big a fireplace as possible up to 60 wide. However the most important aspect to consider in order to optimize your fireplace s efficiency is its power its capacity to heat expressed in btu. It s a nomograph from the brick industry.

From your specs page i ve concluded that 60 is way too big as would be the 48 model. The dimensions for a small room are 1 30 of the total rooms square feet to be used as the fireplace opening. For example if the width of the room is 4m the length 8m and the room is 2 8m in height the cubic area or total volume of the room is. A small room can be described as that with less than 300 square feet while anything above this may be considered big.

You need enough room to make it look like an actual masonry fireplace. The size of the room is an important criterion regarding this major purchase. The physics of smoke rising into a chimney is complex and several things must be done right so all the smoke from the fire exits your home. A fireplace will puff smoke into a room if its design is flawed.

For large rooms 1 65 of the total room footage should be used. To properly size a flue you must use a nomograph.