IN WALL FANS TO DISTRIBUTE HEAT TO A COLDER ROOM

[stinger68]

Hi has anyone ever installed a inwall air transfer fan to distribute warm air from my room with the pellet stove to my much colder bedroom where its freezing and behind the pellet stove.Do the work and are they worth the $100.00 they are asking for them?

 

[donbryce]

I have an old record player motor with a small fan on the shaft mounted in the air vent in the floor in a bedroom directly over the stove. The vent/register used to handle air from the central furnace, but I cut off the pipe and use another grille to pull air from the room the stove is in. So, to address your Q's, just find any old small fan/motor/blade, mount it in a box between the studs at the ceiling, with a grille on each side, and wire in a wall switch to turn it on/off. I'd imagine less than $50.00 should cover parts if you did the install/fabrication yourself.

 

[old4x4]

A ThruWall Transfer fan from Home Depot (website)

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I put one in and it did the trick!

 

[offingmoot]

in my area it is against fire code to have such fans, and insurance companies will not insure the house due to fire hazard. the thought is a fire in one room would easily transfer to another if the fan was on

 

[offingmoot]

however, neither the ins company nor the fire dept cared that i am storing over 4 tons of pellet fuel in my basement, imagine if that went up!

 

[Catfishjack]

I have this fan
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It goes thru my dining room wall to my office. It raises my office temperature almost 10 degree's on high in under five minutes. There is no code for putting a fan between your rooms..that is propery installed, manufactured for that sole purpose and is UL Listed. If that were the case then there would be no duct work in your house.

 

[vgrund]

How loud are these fans?

 

[fast636]

I put a vent grille in the wall next to my stove and just put a small electric fan in front ot the grille. Where mine is located it cant be redily seen and you can't hear it over the sound of the stove. It did the trick. I insulated between the wall so that the warm air would not go into the wall and create condinsation. Total cost with fan was >$40