I have a Harman P43, I need some help moving my heat through out the house this year more than ever. Have a 7 month old in the back bed rooms and I can’t get the back rooms warm. Here is a quick sketch of my floor plan. I have a fan placed on the far wall in the kitchen facing the living room and I have air movement up top towards the kitchen.
That time of year again! Moving my heat..
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Best way to move air is to place fans on floor, blowing cooler air into stove room, thus pushing the warmer air out. They do make little fans that look like a spider web that mount on top of door frames to blow warmer air into rooms. They must be slow so as not to cool the warm air they are blowing. Might try a small 6" fan on floor in hallway, blowing cooler air into living room. kap
you have any ceiling fans? I would put one in the hallway to get the air circulating and in the livingroom if possible
Edward Hughes
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I have a heat pump, just trying to experiment this winter and burn the stove as much as I can.
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Mt Bob
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OK.You bought a room heater,and now you want to find a way to transfer the heat.Has been tried,for many years.You live in a huge horizontal house.Heat does not flow well,left and right.The more electricity you use to "transfer' heat/cooling,the more you are fooling yourself,it is all money,in the long run.Just to give you an example,go to the farm store,buy 3 1500 "milkhouse" heaters,put them in 1 room,and see how that heats your house.Central heating systems came in to "vogue" in the middle to late 1800's.Moving heat is very expensive,usually more than what you think you would save,heating a different way.There is no magical way to save you money,on your heating,it is pure logic. Sorry if I have been blunt,but this was addressed before,before the forum changed ownership.
All good man, like I said just trying to experiment. We loose power a lot in the winter so trying to figure out the best way to transfer heat if need be. I’ve read all kinds of stories about people “heating their whole house” with a pellet stove as small as mine so figure why not ask and see if it’s all BS, different floor plan, or did somebody finally figure it out haha!
Have the pedestal fan pointed out towards the master bath corner. The warm air should gather in that area and then start moving around. If you put that close-to-the-floor fan at the end of the hall way, blowing right to left, it will move the cool air out of the hallway, which will cause the warm air to move in over the top. Then hopefully the warm air will move into bed 1 and 2. I have a corner fan like the one shown above, and it works slowly because it doesn't move a lot of air quickly, but it works if you leave it on all day.
funflyer
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I found that using the HVAC furnace/AC fan works well at keeping the entire house a more even(ish) temp. I used to manually turn it on and off but discovered a better way to do it. What I do is kill power to my AC compressor/condenser and set the thermostat to "cool" so when the fan comes on, the compressor won't run but everything is still automatic. The thermostat is in the main living area of the house where the pellet stove is so it works extremely well. The highest temp that my wife and I can stand in the main living area is about 74-75 degrees so I set the stat to 74. It takes about 10 minutes to satisfy the stat and drop the temp to 72 or so, while moving just enough warm air to the cold back bedrooms to keep them comfortable. Once the fan shuts off it takes about 30 minutes minutes before the temp in the main living area rises enough to repeat the cycle.
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Not a good idea for people in cold climates. A lot of outdoor modern central air units have small heaters of some sort so the compressor doesn't get damaged in severe cold weather. A lot of them are just heat trace type (heat tape), I know there are others but those are the ones I'm familiar with.
funflyer
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Yes, heat pumps use a crank case heater and a low ambient temp control, however, a typical residential air conditioning condenser has no need for either, IIRC.
Ok I think I got something going here. Got a box fan at the end of the hallway (28) blowing down the hallway towards the living room and ceiling fan on in Bed1 blowing downwards. I have tissue paper taped to the entrances of living room and Bed1. Living room tissue paper is blowing towards dining room and Bed1 tissue paper blowing into Bed1 room. I closed the doors to Bath and Bed2. Temps were consistent feeling and noticed a considerable difference when Bath and Bed2 doors were opened... much colder in those rooms. It’s only 54 degrees outside tonight, stove was on low fan speed and set at only 55 degrees on constant burn. Will check how it works again when it is colder outside.
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