circulating hot air

[ldexter]

A little help please.... I have a double wide and have attached a picture of the layout of the house. Our sons bedroom is not getting very warm and we have a ceiling fan in his room and our room. The living room on the other hand is HOT! Would like to know if we should put some type of box fan, door corner fan or something in his room to help circulate. Our room that says bedroom 1 gets warm and we have to shut the door. I also turn on that ceiling fan to help circulate. any help would be great! thanks (ps. excited to say I got my ash vacum in today and will be cleaning when I get home so we can turn on the pellet stove to be toasty warm tonight )

 

[Ashful]

Try putting a small fan on the floor in your son's doorway, blowing the cold air out of his room and toward the stove room, along the floor. This cold air being pushed into the stove room will displace the hot air out, which will flow into his room. It's much more efficient to force the cold air along the floor, than to try to move the hot air along the ceiling.

It will take a little while for the convection current to establish, but once it does, it may be self-sustaining. In other words, you may be able to move the fan out of the doorway, once the currents are flowing.

 

[ldexter]

thank you very much- I will try this tonight

 

[dw06]

Try running the ceiling fan in reverse in his room, pulling air from floor up. I did that in a bedroom and it worked to pull warm air into room.

 

[ldexter]

ahh yes I think I have his fan in the reverse order. When I cleaned them this past month I switched them for the typical heating season I will go home and switch it back ty

 

[Ashful]

Try running the ceiling fan in reverse in his room, pulling air from floor up. I did that in a bedroom and it worked to pull warm air into room.

It will take some experimentation to find the ideal solution. This may help or fight the fan on the floor... experimentation will get you there.

 

[dw06]

It will take some experimentation to find the ideal solution. This may help or fight the fan on the floor... experimentation will get you there.

True, try both for a day or so each and see what does best for you.