For those with a ceiling fan in the room where your stove is, do you set the fan so the air is pulled up or air pushing down?
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Clyde S. Dale
Feeling the Heat
When I am heating my house, the fan is set to pull the air up towards the ceiling. The fan blades spin clockwise. I reverse them (counter clockwise) when it is cooling season.
Yah, thats what I am doing now but wasn't sure if that was best practice. Im a wood insert newbie learning more each visit to the forum. My next challenge is to get the air flowing through the doorways without fans everywhere. I have a 2 year old that grabs everything and twins due in about 2 weeks.
We live in a tri-level and the stove is at the east side of the house facing west to the rest of the house. We have a gas furnace and using the stove to heat the living areas on the main level and let the gas furnace heat the lower level and upper level where the bedrooms are.
We live in a tri-level and the stove is at the east side of the house facing west to the rest of the house. We have a gas furnace and using the stove to heat the living areas on the main level and let the gas furnace heat the lower level and upper level where the bedrooms are.
Sconnie Burner
Feeling the Heat
My stove sits in an area in the basement where I have a drop down from the ceiling where my HVAC ducting runs. So I use the ceiling fan over the stove on normal to push the heat down so it gets past that area and can then migrate throughout the house.
I have also been experimenting with using my HVAC system with the fan only mode. I'm not trying to suck heat from the stove area and push it to other parts of the house though. Im using it more like a cold air return system, where I have most of the ducts in the house closed down to quarter open. Cold air returns are completely unobstructed, and vents near stove and adjoining area wide open. The cool air from the returns gets circulated into the system and dumped out the vents in the stove area which displaces the warm air out of the area and helps it migrate to the rest of the house. Its been working well so far for my shoulder season burns. I only have a couple degree difference from floor to floor and room to room. Just barely noticeable. This at least makes sense in my head anyway.
I have also been experimenting with using my HVAC system with the fan only mode. I'm not trying to suck heat from the stove area and push it to other parts of the house though. Im using it more like a cold air return system, where I have most of the ducts in the house closed down to quarter open. Cold air returns are completely unobstructed, and vents near stove and adjoining area wide open. The cool air from the returns gets circulated into the system and dumped out the vents in the stove area which displaces the warm air out of the area and helps it migrate to the rest of the house. Its been working well so far for my shoulder season burns. I only have a couple degree difference from floor to floor and room to room. Just barely noticeable. This at least makes sense in my head anyway.
highanddryinco
Burning Hunk
I'm from the whatever works for you camp. My family room where the stove is is wide open up to an 18' flat ceiling that then spills over to an open loft area. Works really well for keeping that entire 2nd floor warm with no added effort. The ceiling fan is also at that high ceiling over the family room. I draw air upwards the majority of the time.
The other side of the coin though is with that high ceiling area, all the heat goes mostly straight up and doesn't reach out into the family room. It's great because it doesn't cook us out but if it's really cold outside, I want the heat coming my way while watching the Broncos so I'll reverse that fan to blow that hot air back down on us.
The other side of the coin though is with that high ceiling area, all the heat goes mostly straight up and doesn't reach out into the family room. It's great because it doesn't cook us out but if it's really cold outside, I want the heat coming my way while watching the Broncos so I'll reverse that fan to blow that hot air back down on us.
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Sprinter
Minister of Fire
Yeah, me too. I've done all kinds of experimenting and for me, I prefer the fan blowing up for two reasons; it seems to distribute the heated air better and if I let it blow downward it makes an uncomfortable draft. The theory is that blowing up takes the warmer air and pushes it toward the outer walls and down which works for me. But its's easy to experiment and see what you like.
Mellery
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We also prefer the ceiling fan in the stove room and the great room next to it pulling the air up and then moving it down the walls to the floor. With a large crawl space under our home, it works for us. Actually helps to warm up the (normally cold) hard wood floors in the other rooms of the house.
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