how do you move the heat around ur house

begreen said:

Yes, give that a try with the fan down low on the floor. We have a master bedroom that has a similar issue. I tried the low fan blowing out into the warmer hallway and found a 5 deg increase in the room in about 30 minutes.

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So far so good. Not as dramatic as your example but it got 3 degrees colder outside and 1 degree warmer in the bonus room over the course of an hour or so. I'll take it.

What I found works for my 30' hallway to get heat into the back rooms is to put a small fan at the back of the hallway on the floor blowing towards the stove room. Then I put a corner fan that attaches near the ceiling and I blow that away from the stove room. That little corner fan made a HUGE difference. I also have ceiling fans pulling air up in the stove room. The little corner fan brought the back rooms up another 3-4*f. It can be -5*f outside, 78*f in the stove room and 70*f in the back rooms. I consider this pretty good.

Our insert is in the middle of our house so it works out great for distributing the heat. We run a ceiling fan in our dining room just to stratify the 12 foot ceiling, but otherwise the heat naturally moves pretty evenly throughout my house. We also keep electric heaters in the bedrooms. This way if for whatever reason it gets cold in a bedroom we just supplement the wood heat with a quick boost from an electric heater. We also like having the option to close bedroom doors when we want to. We find it is easier to keep a warm room warm than to warm up a cool space. The space heaters are not used often, but when we want them it is very helpful. Actually not completely true: we use a space heater every night in our baby's room. We keep his door closed with the little electric oil filled radiator. A little more money, but a lot more peace.

Backwoods Savage said:

Well, it has been mentioned more than once already. I too say blow the cool toward the warm. Cooler air is more dense so it will move into the warm room and force the heat out and it will set up a circular pattern that will warm the far rooms. Ceiling fans help too and should be set to blow up.

What we use is radiant heat and only one ceiling fan. That is all we need but previously we have set a small vornado fan in the hallway and that really warms up the far rooms quickly. You don't want a large fan or you will feel the draft. This is what I was speaking of.
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For sure one has to consider code because if you don't and should a fire happen, your insurance could get out of paying you a thing because you are not to code. This goes for the setup of the OP and also for the old style registers.

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Tried this....the stove top melted it right down....

I hope you're not planning on drinking that wine, HybridFyre. UV + warm air = bad mojo.

I understand the logic behind pushing cool air toward the stove. But what if the stove is in a basement playroom?

I would like to see how some of you have tackled getting the heat upstairs to the main living area.

Begreen just came back to say thanks. After a day of the fan on the other end of the hall on the floor it's actually the same temp in the bonus room as it is in most of the downstairs aside from the stove room. I'm amazed.

Convection loops are a beautiful thing.

Yeah like I said I'm amazed. My wife thanks you too. The baby's room is 4-5 degrees warmer now too. Now I can run the space heater less at night in there which is great.