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Throat

  • Writer: Michael Proto
    Michael Proto
  • Sep 12, 2019
  • 1 min read

Opening above a fireplace firebox through which flue gases pass from the firebox to the flue. The fireplace damper frame assembly is usually located at the throat of a fireplace.

 
 
 

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