Air-vent in fireplace inlet?? Help and information on all topics relating to your central heating, air conditioning and ventilation issues.

[onlymechris]

Any help with this one folks would be really appreciated.....

My old fireplace had been previously bricked-up and an air-brick put in place. Anyway, I decided to knock through to create an open fireplace inlet, which I plan to plaster-board up (side, back and top) and make a feature of. The question I have is:

I obviously need to keep an air-flow from the chimney to avoid damp occurring but would it be suffice to plaster-board the top of the fireplace and drill some holes in the plasterboard to allow air flow? I know it sounds a bit heath-robinson but it would avoid having to fit an air vent on the plasterboard at the top of my fireplace inlet.

Any help would be most appreciated.

cheers,

Chris

[The Heating Doctor]

Only you can answer that one, I would suggest you post this question on the building forum as it's more in there realms