Hey guys,
I've burned wood now for 15 years in this house and a number of years in others. My stove is in a finished basement at the other end of where the stairs are. I've got no squirrel cage connecting it to my back-up oil furnace so the heat moves by convection and currents generated by door coorner fans, stove blower and such. While keeping my 52 X 25 single floor ranch at a comfortable temperature upstairs, the downstairs has a tendency to get a little warm. This year I was thinking about putting in at least one floor register (cast iron) about 12 x 12 in the hallway, which is about in the middle of the house, to assist with heat transfer. I was wondering what some of you might use to help pass the air between the basement and 1st floor or 1st to second floor. I remember both of my aunts who burned woodstoves in upstate N.Y. (Lewis, Essex county) had registers in the cealing of the first floor to allow passage of the warm air upstairs to the bedrooms. I've looked for some but can't seem to find them around here, and don't sem to see anything really similar on line. Most are dealing with forced air registers. I think theirs had the channel/tin already in them. I saw some a few years back at the local hardware store that would expand to various thickness between floors and kick myself now for not jumping on them.
Anyone here use though the floor/cealing registers? Where did you find them. Or, if you have alternative measures please share.
Thanks
tcass
I've burned wood now for 15 years in this house and a number of years in others. My stove is in a finished basement at the other end of where the stairs are. I've got no squirrel cage connecting it to my back-up oil furnace so the heat moves by convection and currents generated by door coorner fans, stove blower and such. While keeping my 52 X 25 single floor ranch at a comfortable temperature upstairs, the downstairs has a tendency to get a little warm. This year I was thinking about putting in at least one floor register (cast iron) about 12 x 12 in the hallway, which is about in the middle of the house, to assist with heat transfer. I was wondering what some of you might use to help pass the air between the basement and 1st floor or 1st to second floor. I remember both of my aunts who burned woodstoves in upstate N.Y. (Lewis, Essex county) had registers in the cealing of the first floor to allow passage of the warm air upstairs to the bedrooms. I've looked for some but can't seem to find them around here, and don't sem to see anything really similar on line. Most are dealing with forced air registers. I think theirs had the channel/tin already in them. I saw some a few years back at the local hardware store that would expand to various thickness between floors and kick myself now for not jumping on them.
Anyone here use though the floor/cealing registers? Where did you find them. Or, if you have alternative measures please share.
Thanks
tcass