Best air circulation for my house

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croghanite

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Looking for opinions on the best way to get the heat back to the two furthest bedrooms. With only running the living room ceiling fan, All the rooms get warm except for the far two bedrooms.
They are 4 degrees or so different than the hallway.

I forgot to draw a ceiling fan in the large bedroom center with the doorway. It's all one floor but you have to step down 6" when you go into the hallway from the livingroom.
 

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While waiting for replies, try searching this topic or 'moving air' or other. There are dozens o posts. Most of them result in saying to blow cool air from the rooms/floor/end of hall toward the warm area to get air to circulate.
 
Yeah, I should have been more clear. When I put a small fan at the end of the hallway pointing toward the stove it works great. I have small children and I was looking for a different solution.

I am looking for opinions on a more permanant design. Maybe those doorway corner fans or a ceiling fan at the end of the hallway, something I haven't read yet, etc.
 
Updated picture. I have a heat pump that does not draw outside air by running the fan only.
 

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My setup is very similar and I also use a heatpump. We have ceiling fans in each bedroom.
We reverse the ceiling fans in the bedrooms to draw hot air up the stairs and into the bedrooms.
( 75*F in living room, 65-70*F in the bedrooms )

The return vent in the family room should draw hot air into the hvac - is it located at floor level or near ceiling ?
 
ozzy73 said:
My setup is very similar and I also use a heatpump. We have ceiling fans in each bedroom.
We reverse the ceiling fans in the bedrooms to draw hot air up the stairs and into the bedrooms.
( 75*F in living room, 65-70*F in the bedrooms )

The return vent in the family room should draw hot air into the hvac - is it located at floor level or near ceiling ?

family room return vent is in the ceiling. Hallway return vent is in the wall at ground level.
 
Since the went is at the ceiling level the funace fan should get the warm air from the family room to the bedrooms fine.
I would try reversing the fan in the big bedroom to see if that draws the air upstairs a little better ( try with the furnace fan on and with out it to see if that helps ).
 
You could try running the fan on the HVAC.

I did that last night. It was 80F in the room with the stove, and 53F in the back bedroom. I turned on the HVAC fan, and after 10 minutes or so my thermometer said the air coming out of the register was 75F. So that's not bad. After a couple hours the temperature in the back bedroom was up to 58 or so. By morning the room with the stove had cooled to 70F (fire was all but out), and the back bedroom was 65.

I read somwhere that it costs around $1 a day to run a typical HVAC blower.
 
pyper said:
You could try running the fan on the HVAC.

I did that last night. It was 80F in the room with the stove, and 53F in the back bedroom. I turned on the HVAC fan, and after 10 minutes or so my thermometer said the air coming out of the register was 75F. So that's not bad. After a couple hours the temperature in the back bedroom was up to 58 or so. By morning the room with the stove had cooled to 70F (fire was all but out), and the back bedroom was 65.

I read somwhere that it costs around $1 a day to run a typical HVAC blower.

Thats awesome! I didn't realize it only costs $1 a day to run the fan. You would have to change your air filters pretty often though....
 
croghanite said:
Thats awesome! I didn't realize it only costs $1 a day to run the fan. You would have to change your air filters pretty often though....

At work they run the blowers 24/7 to help filter the air. They have the highest quality filters and I think they get changed on a normal schedule. They're always really dirty when they come out.
 
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