AlaskanMudder
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- Sep 18, 2013
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Sorry to bring up an old post but I am new to the site and was wondering if I could pick your guys' brains.
I live in Alaska and have a great outside airdraft blaze king that I love. Here is my issue. I have a 1500 square foot, two story split level home. I have a large cathedral ceiling in my living room directly over my oversize two car garage. The living room is pretty much the same size as the garage. When I run my stove, up against the front of the house, the living room gets really hot, and top floor elsewhere is comfortable. the basement, primararily consisting of a large bedroom in the back of the house, does not raise in temps until I run the stove for at least 4 + hours. Even then, it is just a few degrees if the stove is really cranking. I Have baseboard heat and would like to use as much of the wood heat to spread to as much of the house as possible. I would like to install a variable fan at the the ceiling upstairs, where it likely exceeds 110 and have it push air through about a 6-7" pvc pipe plumbed down through the garage, and into the crawlspace below the downstairs floor. Downstairs consists of two bedrooms and a bath and laundry room.
I am hoping the heat pushed into the crawlspace will heat the house uniformly as it rises and force some air downstairs upward to the livingroom/stoveroom. I have read several posts on here and most address sideways movement or helping heated air downstairs go upward. Can anyone give me any advice on this? I have tried several fans in various locations, but due to the stairs changing directions 180 degrees, I think this is the only way to do it.
Any help, advise, or fire and/or building codes quoted would be very appreciated.
-Erik
I live in Alaska and have a great outside airdraft blaze king that I love. Here is my issue. I have a 1500 square foot, two story split level home. I have a large cathedral ceiling in my living room directly over my oversize two car garage. The living room is pretty much the same size as the garage. When I run my stove, up against the front of the house, the living room gets really hot, and top floor elsewhere is comfortable. the basement, primararily consisting of a large bedroom in the back of the house, does not raise in temps until I run the stove for at least 4 + hours. Even then, it is just a few degrees if the stove is really cranking. I Have baseboard heat and would like to use as much of the wood heat to spread to as much of the house as possible. I would like to install a variable fan at the the ceiling upstairs, where it likely exceeds 110 and have it push air through about a 6-7" pvc pipe plumbed down through the garage, and into the crawlspace below the downstairs floor. Downstairs consists of two bedrooms and a bath and laundry room.
I am hoping the heat pushed into the crawlspace will heat the house uniformly as it rises and force some air downstairs upward to the livingroom/stoveroom. I have read several posts on here and most address sideways movement or helping heated air downstairs go upward. Can anyone give me any advice on this? I have tried several fans in various locations, but due to the stairs changing directions 180 degrees, I think this is the only way to do it.
Any help, advise, or fire and/or building codes quoted would be very appreciated.
-Erik