Originally Posted by
Nick Ostrowski
The bedroom next to that utility closet was wide open with not wall or door separating it from the downstairs area. Essentially, the bedroom was an open loft.
Nick,
Regardless of how open the "bedroom" was, and whether or not the "bedroom" was a loft, it was, nonetheless ... a "bedroom", which is a room for sleeping, i.e., it is a "sleeping room".
As such (being a "sleeping room") that room/area is a prohibited source for obtaining combustion air from it.