I have two rooms in my basement, unfortunately the woodstove is in the corner of the front room and the stairway is in the next room. Essentially I have to heat 2 rooms before the heat even thinks of making it's way towards the stairway (which is on the end of the house and creates another problem). I have tried fans but it just doesn't give any results with my set up.
I have a small sign shop in the basement and have an abundance of 2ft wide cor-plast panels (think campaign signs). I figured if I can direct the stream of hot air from that front room to the stairwell I might be getting somewhere. I hung the panels from the ceiling and made a 'channel' from the front room doorway to the stairs. It hangs only 2 ft down and actually collects the hot air which rides along the ceiling and brings it right to the stairway.
So far it is working great, when I go to the top of the basement stairs I get a pretty substantial flow of heat compared to what I had before.
I'm not as concerned with the looks as with keeping the upstairs thermostats lower. As far as the safety aspect, I didn't change anything in the stove room and I have a CO monitor and hard-wired smoke alarms throughout the house. I think this was a good alternative to cutting registers in the floor and I can take it down in 5 minutes at the end of the heating season or when we have a Pats super bowl party downstairs...
I have a small sign shop in the basement and have an abundance of 2ft wide cor-plast panels (think campaign signs). I figured if I can direct the stream of hot air from that front room to the stairwell I might be getting somewhere. I hung the panels from the ceiling and made a 'channel' from the front room doorway to the stairs. It hangs only 2 ft down and actually collects the hot air which rides along the ceiling and brings it right to the stairway.
So far it is working great, when I go to the top of the basement stairs I get a pretty substantial flow of heat compared to what I had before.
I'm not as concerned with the looks as with keeping the upstairs thermostats lower. As far as the safety aspect, I didn't change anything in the stove room and I have a CO monitor and hard-wired smoke alarms throughout the house. I think this was a good alternative to cutting registers in the floor and I can take it down in 5 minutes at the end of the heating season or when we have a Pats super bowl party downstairs...