Hey y'all...
So we have a 2-level house, 4 rooms down and 4 up. The house was built in 1880 and 1907 (addition), and let's just say that it's the antithesis of an open floor plan.
We have a VC Montpelier Insert in the downstairs family room, and it runs great, produces plenty of heat.
The family room is about 80 degrees, but the upstairs is about 60 right now. It seems to me the the heat is getting "stuck" near the ceiling of the family room, and having a tough time going through the small doorway to find its way up the staircase.
I've considered cutting a vent hole of some kind in the wall near the ceiling, to let hot air flow from the family room through to the staircase on the other side of the wall.
Here's a picture of the family room, to give you an idea:
From this view, the doorway is to the left of the fireplace, and around the corner to the right. The stairs are on the wall behind the fireplace, so the place that I'm thinking is a candidate for the vent would be to the right of the fireplace just below the ceiling.
Has anyone done something like this? Any other suggestions?
So we have a 2-level house, 4 rooms down and 4 up. The house was built in 1880 and 1907 (addition), and let's just say that it's the antithesis of an open floor plan.
We have a VC Montpelier Insert in the downstairs family room, and it runs great, produces plenty of heat.
The family room is about 80 degrees, but the upstairs is about 60 right now. It seems to me the the heat is getting "stuck" near the ceiling of the family room, and having a tough time going through the small doorway to find its way up the staircase.
I've considered cutting a vent hole of some kind in the wall near the ceiling, to let hot air flow from the family room through to the staircase on the other side of the wall.
Here's a picture of the family room, to give you an idea:
From this view, the doorway is to the left of the fireplace, and around the corner to the right. The stairs are on the wall behind the fireplace, so the place that I'm thinking is a candidate for the vent would be to the right of the fireplace just below the ceiling.
Has anyone done something like this? Any other suggestions?