This may be an odd question.. but I have had my Regency Bellavista b36xte installed for over a year now, but yesterday during the east coast snow storm was the first time I got to sit there in front of it with the heat laser gun for a few hours. I was very surprised to find that the veneer stone and mantle above the fireplace were way hotter with the blower fan ON, than with it OFF. I thought that with the blower fan on, it would blow the heat out into the room, and with the fan off, the heat would just rise up and out of the unit and heat up the veneer stone and mantle. But not so apparently. So without the blower fan on, where is the heat going? The unit is installed into a chimney chase that bumps out of the house. Am I just heating the chimney chase without the fan on? The unit is in a great room with cathedral ceilings to the second floor. It seems like so much heat just goes straight to the second floor, and I'd prefer to have as much as possible radiate out to the first floor area.
But where does the heat go?
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I've heard that it makes more sense to run a fan in reverse in that situation. Suck the cooler air up to displace the warm air up high.
