My house is approximately 2500 sq ft. The wood stove is in the living room on the first floor, which is vaulted to the second floor which then opens to rest of the entire second floor. The second floor is used very little. There are two bedrooms on the first floor at the end of a hall on the opposite side of the house from the wood stove.
The problem is that a high percentage of the heat from the stove is going up to the second floor which is not needed since it is not used much. I also don't get much heat to the bedrooms, so need to use electric radiant heaters in those rooms at night. I installed a fan in the living room (which hangs downward from the 2nd floor ceiing) to try to keep more heat from rising to the second floor; it helps but it can only do so much.
Is there any way to both keep more of that heat from rising to the unused second floor, and to distribute some of that heat to the back bedrooms? Will a couple of fans aimed from the stove toward the bedrooms help much?
One idea I had is to rig a duct with a fan that is installed between the two floors that draws heat from the 2nd floor (part of the 2nd floor which gets very warm is directly over the bedrooms, which do not) and pipes it down to the bedrooms on the first floor; does something like this exist?
The problem is that a high percentage of the heat from the stove is going up to the second floor which is not needed since it is not used much. I also don't get much heat to the bedrooms, so need to use electric radiant heaters in those rooms at night. I installed a fan in the living room (which hangs downward from the 2nd floor ceiing) to try to keep more heat from rising to the second floor; it helps but it can only do so much.
Is there any way to both keep more of that heat from rising to the unused second floor, and to distribute some of that heat to the back bedrooms? Will a couple of fans aimed from the stove toward the bedrooms help much?
One idea I had is to rig a duct with a fan that is installed between the two floors that draws heat from the 2nd floor (part of the 2nd floor which gets very warm is directly over the bedrooms, which do not) and pipes it down to the bedrooms on the first floor; does something like this exist?