I am entering my 4th year of use on my Europa 75, and love it.
One thing I've noticed with my Europa, which is located in the kitchen of my Victorian home, is that heat collects on the 11 ft ceiling. I use 2 ceiling fans to push the heat down and into a wall fan that is located in the old butler's pantry pass through. That pushes the air through the pantry to the dining room at about 3 ft off of the floor. This works pretty well.
I've been thinking of getting a second Europa to heat some of the second floor, which is 2000 sq ft. with 11 ft ceilings. Because of walls, it would probably only heat the main hall, which is huge, and 2 bedrooms. The unit would be on one side of the main hall at about the divider wall between two bedrooms. There are two bedroom closets on the other side of the wall. I thought I would put two wall intake vents above the Europa at about 10ft up. One intake would go into each closet. These would have to have some kind of fan to suck the heated air into flexible HVAC ductwork. Then I'd run the ductwork down the side of each closet to a register on the wall in each bedroom. Don't know if I would need another fan at the register to push the air out though. I would only be about 15 ft from the ceiling intake vent.
Does anyone have any comments about the potential effectiveness of this plan, or an alternative approach to get the Europa heat to the bedrooms? Each bedroom does have a ceiling fan already. I've thought of skipping the ductwork and just sending the heated air into the bedroom at the 10 ft level. (This would bypass the closet and run directly into the bedrooms.) But, the place it would come in would be 8 ft from the ceiling fans so I am not sure they would pick up the heat properly. Or, maybe the solution is to pump the air in high and low in order to get as much in there as possible.
Gloria
One thing I've noticed with my Europa, which is located in the kitchen of my Victorian home, is that heat collects on the 11 ft ceiling. I use 2 ceiling fans to push the heat down and into a wall fan that is located in the old butler's pantry pass through. That pushes the air through the pantry to the dining room at about 3 ft off of the floor. This works pretty well.
I've been thinking of getting a second Europa to heat some of the second floor, which is 2000 sq ft. with 11 ft ceilings. Because of walls, it would probably only heat the main hall, which is huge, and 2 bedrooms. The unit would be on one side of the main hall at about the divider wall between two bedrooms. There are two bedroom closets on the other side of the wall. I thought I would put two wall intake vents above the Europa at about 10ft up. One intake would go into each closet. These would have to have some kind of fan to suck the heated air into flexible HVAC ductwork. Then I'd run the ductwork down the side of each closet to a register on the wall in each bedroom. Don't know if I would need another fan at the register to push the air out though. I would only be about 15 ft from the ceiling intake vent.
Does anyone have any comments about the potential effectiveness of this plan, or an alternative approach to get the Europa heat to the bedrooms? Each bedroom does have a ceiling fan already. I've thought of skipping the ductwork and just sending the heated air into the bedroom at the 10 ft level. (This would bypass the closet and run directly into the bedrooms.) But, the place it would come in would be 8 ft from the ceiling fans so I am not sure they would pick up the heat properly. Or, maybe the solution is to pump the air in high and low in order to get as much in there as possible.
Gloria