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My gas fireplace will run without power, but the fans will not, so it will run much, much less efficiently and take hours to warm a room from the ceiling down.
by briffle 4y ago
My gas fireplace will run without power, but the fans will not, so it will run much, much less efficiently and take hours to warm a room from the ceiling down. However, my gas furnace will not run because it needs the large electric fans to circulate the air from the furnace in the garage to the registers in each room in the house.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoI had one of those. During a power out, it was able to keep half the room warm reasonably well - liveably well, at least.
- 13of40 4y agoI used to have a freestanding gas fireplace that worked great in a power outage, because even though the blower didn't run it could still radiate from all sides.
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- 13of40 4y agoThat's brilliant!
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