The room with my woodstove traps much of my heat due to cathedral ceilings and the layout of doorways to the rest of the house. As a result I don't get much flow of heat to keep the rest of the house warm. I do use a ceiling fan in this room and it helps some, but does little to help move the air out of the room.
I found a small box fan helps me quite a bit, my theory being it pushes colder into the warm room which in turn displaces some of the trapped heat which flows back out through the top of the doorway (I have a doorway and a large pass-thru opening to my kitchen). I can feel more heat flowing out through the tops of my doorways when I run the fan (and my heatpump runs less).
My current fan is an el-cheapo from a budget store and quite noisy. Do you know of a quieter box fan? Looking to stay in the same form factor which is no larger than 12x12". What I don't know is if the noise is an unavoidable function of the cfm being pushed or if there is something inherent in a design which can lower the noise level.
I found a small box fan helps me quite a bit, my theory being it pushes colder into the warm room which in turn displaces some of the trapped heat which flows back out through the top of the doorway (I have a doorway and a large pass-thru opening to my kitchen). I can feel more heat flowing out through the tops of my doorways when I run the fan (and my heatpump runs less).
My current fan is an el-cheapo from a budget store and quite noisy. Do you know of a quieter box fan? Looking to stay in the same form factor which is no larger than 12x12". What I don't know is if the noise is an unavoidable function of the cfm being pushed or if there is something inherent in a design which can lower the noise level.
