ive been using my Lopi Freedom for a few months now and the stove is great. it heats the living room very well - almost too well at times. but because of the layout of the house most of the heat that leaves the living room goes up the stairs making it hard to heat the kitchen and especially my first floor bedroom. I don't necessarily want my bedroom getting too hot, but thought if I could do a better job of getting the heat to the bedroom I wouldn't need to have the living room at over 80*, and would also use less wood. so I was going to try getting a few small doorway fans to put in the doorways going from the living room to the kitchen and the kitchen to the bedroom. in my search for those fans I found other fans that can go right in the wall which I thought might work even better and then a new idea entered my head. maybe I could use a small wall fan and some ducting to go from the living room straight to the bedroom. heres a rough layout of my first floor:
the blue is where I was thinking it could go. im assuming I want to be pushing the hot air from the living room to the bedroom. would I want the hot air outlet in the bedroom to be up high or down low? is a return vent also necessary? or let the cool air return to the living room through the kitchen? anyone have any suggestions?
the blue is where I was thinking it could go. im assuming I want to be pushing the hot air from the living room to the bedroom. would I want the hot air outlet in the bedroom to be up high or down low? is a return vent also necessary? or let the cool air return to the living room through the kitchen? anyone have any suggestions?
