warm upstairs, cool downstairs

[nanama72]

We have an open floor plan, a cathedral ceiling and a pellet stove insert. Our downstairs stays in low to mid 60's and upstairs is in the 70's. Last year we used the ceiling fans and that did help but caused a breeze that I didn't care for. I'm wondering if people have experience using the whole house fan to blow the air around. Does that more evenly distribute the heat? I should also mention that we have one room closed off downstairs and 2 rooms closed off upstairs that we do not currently heat. The goal would simply be for the downstairs to be warmer.

Thanks.

 

[THE ROOSTER]

My old log home had a floor plan similar to your's, and I can tell you from experience that running the fan on your central heat system does not help... I too had to use my ceiling fans on low, blowing down... From the floor to the top of my ceiling was 20' and my fans ran 24/7 in the winter... My new home has only 8' ceilings and my stove will run you out, I loved my log home and miss it except Dec.-Feb.

 

[Pellet-King]

As the saying goes...heat rises!

I know cathedral ceilings look great, make you feel like your room is bigger, but honestly it's horrible to waste heating a space you can only...........if you look up..........to heat!


Use your ceiling fans to blow UP, the heat will then blow back down, use only on low