Farthest Room is cold

[Burner73]

This is a bit off topic but I hought maybe some of you wold have some ideas. I am in a typical country colonial. (8) rooms 4 on first floor four on second floor. All thes rooms with doors open get heated nicely (with an fpx36.)

I have a "bonus" room over my garage. This room never really gets too warm. As a matter offact, when the door is open I can feel a cool (cold) column of air coming down my staircase (center of house). Why would this room cause this affect but none of the other rooms do? Is is just not well insulated?

Anyone else suffer from the same problem?

 

[jeff6443]

Burner your garage isnt heated right . Cold under room , cold air sinks

 

[savageactor7]

Yeah, one of the cool things about wood heat that I like is that it is uneven. Right now it's 20* outside and here in hell house I'm in the my den, the farthest room from the stove in my T shirt and shorts.

I suppose you could use a fan to move the heat around and leave passageway door open etc. But it's nice to have at least 1 cooler room you can retreat to imo.

 

[Burner73]

Yes- My garage is not heated. Would extra insulation between garage ceiling and room floor make an appreciable difference.

In the summer this room is of course is hotter than the rest (no attic above it).

Do you think more insulation etc would only provide negligible results?

 

[Dix]

Yes- My garage is not heated. Would extra insulation between garage ceiling and room floor make an appreciable difference.

In the summer this room is of course is hotter than the rest (no attic above it).

Do you think more insulation etc would only provide negligible results?

I don't think you can go wrong with insulationg atleast the ceiling of the garage (floor of bonus room).

I have a 1/2 basement, and a crawl space under the kitchen & breakfast area. We installed sheets of foam insulation to the "ceiling" of the crawl space, and insulated all of the water & heating pipes. It has made a huge differance.

 

[fossil]

If the floor between garage and bonus room is uninsulated, and there is no attic space above the room, and the roof over the room wasn't well insulated, then that room is just a big heat loss. Wood burning appliances are space heaters, so even with a well insulated room that remote from the stove, you can't expect too much. What it's got going for it is that it's above the stove room. What it's got going against it is that it's not effectively insulated. Rick

 

[Todd]

Insulated garage door will help also, but that far away room will still be a cool spot. You will never even out the heat in all rooms from a space heating wood stove.

 

[stejus]

I have the same set up with a room between the garage and house. I put a small fan in the hallway directly at the bottom of the stairs that lead upstairs pointing at the stove. This is my cold air pouring down from upstairs. The cold air flows along the floor towards the stove and the flows above the cold air right up the stairs. I average 75 degrees in the family room/kitchen and 68 in the LR/DR. The upstairs ranges from 68 to 60 depending on where you measure. The 68 is in the upstairs hallway, the 60 is deep in the bedrooms. The room inbetween the house and garage is around 65. The stove is blowing air in the opposite direction of this room and its not flowing (naturally) into the room very well.

I think your issue is the heat doesn't reach this area very well. If it does migrate there, by the time it gets there, it cooled off too much to warm the room effectively.

 

[mayhem]

You need to insulate the grage ceiling before you'll get an effective heat transfer into that room.