Louvered Damper Operated By Thermostat

[Ravenvalor]

Good Morning,

I would like to put a thermostatically controlled louver in the wall between the wood stove in the livingroom and our bedroom. This would better regulate the temperature in our bedroom. Would you recommend that I install louver about a foot or two off the floor directly behind the stove or should I put it up near the ceiling where I am assuming the heat accumulates.
Do you know of any louvers that are designed specifically for this task? It would be nice to find one that will not allow noise to enter the bedroom from the livingroom where our dog sleeps. She tends to make funny noises when she is in a dream state. Also, she sometimes roams around the house at night.

Thanks for the great help throughout all these years.

Jim

 

[BrotherBart]

It won't do anything. But if you do it put it at least ten feet from the stove and use one with a fuseable link in it to keep fire from spreading in case of a fire.

If the bedroom is upstairs the thing will turn into a chimney in case of a fire spreading it like a rocket upstairs.

 

[begreen]

A thermostatically controlled fan, blowing cooler air down low in the wall from the bedroom into the stove room would be more effective. Tjerlund makes a wall fan for this purpose. It uses the stud cavity as a plenum to trap light and noise. Leave the bedroom door open to facilitate the return of warm air from the stove room replacing the cooler air blown out of the bedroom.

 

[Ravenvalor]

It won't do anything. But if you do it put it at least ten feet from the stove and use one with a fuseable link in it to keep fire from spreading in case of a fire.

If the bedroom is upstairs the thing will turn into a chimney in case of a fire spreading it like a rocket upstairs.

Good point thanks.

 

[Ravenvalor]

I will look up Tjerlund, thanks.

 

[Ravenvalor]

A thermostatically controlled fan, blowing cooler air down low in the wall from the bedroom into the stove room would be more effective. Tjerlund makes a wall fan for this purpose. It uses the stud cavity as a plenum to trap light and noise. Leave the bedroom door open to facilitate the return of warm air from the stove room replacing the cooler air blown out of the bedroom.

This is the email question that I just sent to Tjerlund.

"Hello,
What If I use your 'airshare fan' and do not want to run it. Will it bring warm air into the room even though it is not running? It looks like warm air will naturally flow into the room even though its not running. If so do you have a thermostatically controlled damper that will open and close per the temperature desired?
Thanks,
Jim"

 

[begreen]

I don't think it will move the air with the fan off if a wall stud cavity is used, especially if the intake (bedroom) side is high and the output (stove room) side is low.

 

[Ravenvalor]

I don't think it will move the air with the fan off if a wall stud cavity is used, especially if the intake (bedroom) side is high and the output (stove room) side is low.

What if we were to make the intake side low and the output side high?