Close Your Fireplace Flue to Keep Cool Air Inside

I recently read an article that was exposing ways to use less air conditioning during the summer months.

  • There is never any shortage of information about the subject because just about every southerner wants to use less a/c in order to save some money on utility costs.

The thing is, there is very little new information in those articles. We all know to use ceiling fans because they make you feel cooler and you can set your thermostat a bit higher. We all know to take cool showers and keep our hair wet whenever possible because the a/c will feel downright cold if you do that. We all know that your a/c will work less if you have a shaded house. This is all the more of the same. However, the other day, I read something I had never read before. In this article, they said to close your fireplace flue in order to keep the air conditioned air inside the house. Well, I have a fireplace I have never used. I have no idea whether or not the flue is open or closed. How can you tell? Do you know? I simply do not know, but the article said that if your flue is open, your chimney acts like a vacuum and sucks all your air conditioning right out through the fireplace! Well, I don’t like the sound of that. In fact, I do not even know why on earth we have fireplaces here in the south. I mean, if I were to use the fireplace, I would have to make the a/c even colder just to survive!

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