Moving heat to the back room, this works.

[Fred Wright]

I finally got busy on a long-procrastinated project yesterday - building a stand mount for this old furnace blower. It's great for moving cool air out of the back bedroom so warm air comes in.

Took a couple hours, all made from stuff we had laying around here and there. The speed control is nice, can be adjusted to suit the prevailing conditions. Put rubber feet on the base so there's no vibration noise.

Nice thing about these blowers, they're directional. We can aim the airflow where we want it.

It ain't much to look at but it works sweet. We had a fire last night and I got to try it out. Keeps the bedroom nice and warm.

 

[Cluttermagnet]

Nice! The speed control is a good feature for such a powerful blower. You are taking the right approach- send cold air at floor level towards the stove, and the heated river of air automatically finds its way back there along the ceiling.

I do something similar here- use a blower to send cold room air from a bedroom directly towards the stove in our Living Room. Heated return air follows a different route down a hall and into the room, so I get a good loop going when that blower is on. Mine has adjustable speed as well.

 

[Soundchasm]

I wondered what happened to the volume knob on my 72 Fender Dual Showman!! For a while I believed my wife took it off the amp...

 

[BruceNorEast]

If you lived in these parts, they'd call that "Yankee ingenuity"

Might want to consider a screen on the intake, so your critters don't imitate the BassOMatic

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[Cluttermagnet]

Hmmm- very good idea! 1/4" or 1/2" wire cloth would be good...

I watched 'bass-o-matic' back in the day. I found it, uh- disturbing.

No need to review the old Akroyd ad spoof.

Wise advice- cover that intake!

 

[Randy Acton]

We have an 1800' ranch with the stove near one end and the bedrooms at the other. The bedrooms stay a bit cool which we like, but when the temps really drop we take a real smal 6" diameter fan and place it on the floor by the bedrooms, blowing down the hall toward the stove. After an hour or two of running the fan the bedrooms are almost too warm to sleep in.

 

[Fred Wright]

That's how this house was set up when we bought it... the chimney thimble is in the dining room at the opposite side of the house from the bedrooms. The place was previously owned by an Amish family, had no electric service. In winter, the dining room and kitchen must've been unbearably hot and the bedrooms and bath ice-cold.

We don't use that chimney, will be removing the top of it soon when the metal roof is completed.

We've always wondered why anyone would put a masonry chimney where this one is, at the far end of the house.

 

[Insomnivore]

Nice. I do something similar with great results. But you need to get a knob that goes to eleven.

Cause it's one faster.

 

[Cluttermagnet]

I was taking a class in- uh, logic- and one of our Prof's buddies poked his head in the door one day and pronounced

Remember, logic does not preclude insanity.

He grinned and wandered off. A good moment of comic relief. Also dead-on accurate...

'Truth is stranger than fiction'...

Edit:

OK, Insomnivore (above) went and changed his tag line, rendering my post nonsensical.
But anyway, at the time I posted, his tag line read something like

Reasoning is partly insane

or something to that effect.

On a positive note, I just learned that one can 'unlike' something online. Neato!

 

[Insomnivore]

Oops. It wasn't done on purpose. I've redone my sig back to the way it was.

 

[Cluttermagnet]

I like the emphasis on is. Heh!