Looking to install some floor vents to gets try to increase the amount of heat I get upstairs from my stove. Ceiling above my stove is a drop ceiling. Suggestions?
Floor vents for drop ceiling?
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See pics on how I did mine! Works great! I installed 2 floor registers, one in Kitchen and one in Living Room!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...ribution-getting-the-heat-up-one-floor.65315/
6" ductwork has Inline fan connected to the cooling contacts on a T-Stat so fan comes on when air temp above stove rises above 75 Degs F and brings 130 - 150 Deg F into those two rooms!
See pics on how I did mine! Works great! I installed 2 floor registers, one in Kitchen and one in Living Room!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...ribution-getting-the-heat-up-one-floor.65315/
6" ductwork has Inline fan connected to the cooling contacts on a T-Stat so fan comes on when air temp above stove rises above 75 Degs F and brings 130 - 150 Deg F into those two rooms!
Do you have a reference for that? Is it the building code, fire code, mechanical code?
Well maybe a look see at this post will give a few particulars: http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_...en-circulation-floor-registers.html#post66976
I cut my wood oak floor to put in a register, back then had a woodstove in the basement it was over 100+ degree's down there, it was a 9x13" register and it did NOTHING!!
Unless you can run a fan in it....Dont do it
Unless you can run a fan in it....Dont do it
I cut my wood oak floor to put in a register, back then had a woodstove in the basement it was over 100+ degree's down there, it was a 9x13" register and it did NOTHING!!
Unless you can run a fan in it....Dont do it
I put an inline fan in the 6" ductwork from Home Depot and it works super!
Please check local code. This is for your own safety.
Adding "Holes" to lower levels allow flames/fire to pass through. .
Adding "Holes" to lower levels allow flames/fire to pass through. .
TLHinCanada
Feeling the Heat
Before there was forced air heating most 2 story farmhouses were heated by vent cut into floor. These vents were large (1'x1' or 1'x3') and there was few of them, simple physics, heat rises. If its cooler upstairs the heat will rise. I would say the size of the vent 9 x 13 is probably to small to have an effect.
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