Hello guys,
I know this subject has been beaten to death but I guess everyone's situation is a little different.
I have a drawing(if you can call it that) attached. It is not to scale or anything, the Master bedroom is the biggest of the 3 bedrooms but I drew it the smallest for whatever reason.
My issue is I cannot get much heat to the bedrooms, the master bedroom fares better than the other two and I assume its because its a straight shot down the hall way.
The 4 red dots you see on the drawing are doorway fans mounted in the top of the doorway. I have read here to put fans on floor blowing towards the stove, put ceiling fan on, etc. I have been dealing with this for 2 winters now and this is the best setup I have found in this house to get the max heat to that end of the house.
I can heat the Living Room, Den, Dining Room, Kitchen like its no bodies business but the bedrooms are the problem.
I recently checked my attic insulation and it is less than ideal on the bedroom end of the house, the insulation on the other half of the house is MUCH better.
I am under the impression that I can't heat those rooms hardly at all because the heat that does make it there escapes through the ceiling and into the attic almost instantly so I was going to spray in some insulation up there.
I guess my question is does anyone think it will make that much difference to add insulation or is it just the layout of the house on the bedroom end?
What I have been having to do here lately is I load the stove before bed which is roughly 9pm. Usually around 4am I will wake up and go feed the stove. By then its not cranking a whole lot of heat but usually the living room is still nice and toasty.
Example: Last night it got down to 25 F. At 4am the living room was 76. Master bedroom was 63, I didn't check the other bedrooms cause my daughters were sleeping but they always run colder than the master bedroom so I figure they were probably between 60-61. So what I do is I turn off the circulating fans after the 4am reload and close the hallway door, wood stove heats everything else rest of night and I let the heat pump bring the bedroom end back up to temp.
Typically through the day if its in the 30 or 40s, the Living room will be cruising at 80 degrees or so which I love, I sit around in shorts and a tank top. But the bedrooms will still be 69 or so. I feel I have plenty of heat to heat those rooms if I can just get it there and somewhat keep it there.
Sorry for the long winded post.
I know this subject has been beaten to death but I guess everyone's situation is a little different.
I have a drawing(if you can call it that) attached. It is not to scale or anything, the Master bedroom is the biggest of the 3 bedrooms but I drew it the smallest for whatever reason.
My issue is I cannot get much heat to the bedrooms, the master bedroom fares better than the other two and I assume its because its a straight shot down the hall way.
The 4 red dots you see on the drawing are doorway fans mounted in the top of the doorway. I have read here to put fans on floor blowing towards the stove, put ceiling fan on, etc. I have been dealing with this for 2 winters now and this is the best setup I have found in this house to get the max heat to that end of the house.
I can heat the Living Room, Den, Dining Room, Kitchen like its no bodies business but the bedrooms are the problem.
I recently checked my attic insulation and it is less than ideal on the bedroom end of the house, the insulation on the other half of the house is MUCH better.
I am under the impression that I can't heat those rooms hardly at all because the heat that does make it there escapes through the ceiling and into the attic almost instantly so I was going to spray in some insulation up there.
I guess my question is does anyone think it will make that much difference to add insulation or is it just the layout of the house on the bedroom end?
What I have been having to do here lately is I load the stove before bed which is roughly 9pm. Usually around 4am I will wake up and go feed the stove. By then its not cranking a whole lot of heat but usually the living room is still nice and toasty.
Example: Last night it got down to 25 F. At 4am the living room was 76. Master bedroom was 63, I didn't check the other bedrooms cause my daughters were sleeping but they always run colder than the master bedroom so I figure they were probably between 60-61. So what I do is I turn off the circulating fans after the 4am reload and close the hallway door, wood stove heats everything else rest of night and I let the heat pump bring the bedroom end back up to temp.
Typically through the day if its in the 30 or 40s, the Living room will be cruising at 80 degrees or so which I love, I sit around in shorts and a tank top. But the bedrooms will still be 69 or so. I feel I have plenty of heat to heat those rooms if I can just get it there and somewhat keep it there.
Sorry for the long winded post.
