Hi,
I am new to this forum. We live very rural, and totally off grid. We have an older stone home with minimal insulation on our property. We generate all of our electricity with a hydro electric plant. For the last 27 years we have had an abundance of electricity from our hydro plant. We have heated this stone home with electric heaters. This has been quite satisfactory. Climate change is affecting the flow in our river and thus our electricity production. We need an alternative to the electric heaters. There is no basement and no attic, thus no place for ducting. I have uploaded the basic floor plan for the house. There are 2 very old, totally inefficient woodstoves in the house. We are planning to replace the stoves with high efficiency double burn stoves. There is a 5” gap at the top of the Adobe Brick walls between the top of the wall and ceiling that I hope will serve to move heat into Rooms C and F (on the floor plan). All the doors between the rooms can pretty much stay open all the time. I am hoping this will be sufficient to “spread” the heat throughout the house. Any suggestions and/or comments about this plan?
The exception and what I mostly need help with is Room A. There is an older man with health issues that lives in this room. For a number of reasons, the door between Rooms A and D must stay closed most of the time. It is important that Room A stay consistently warm. The wall between the rooms is a standard framed sheetrock wall. I was thinking of cutting some small vent openings between the rooms and using small circulation fans to move warm air into Room A. I have read that using fans can create negative pressure issues in Room D (in our case) that could cause back drafting in the woodstove.
Any help with how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Will fans be an issue? Where to place them? What else might work? Is there any other approach that is better? Does it seem like the overall plan for the house will work?
Thank You.
I am new to this forum. We live very rural, and totally off grid. We have an older stone home with minimal insulation on our property. We generate all of our electricity with a hydro electric plant. For the last 27 years we have had an abundance of electricity from our hydro plant. We have heated this stone home with electric heaters. This has been quite satisfactory. Climate change is affecting the flow in our river and thus our electricity production. We need an alternative to the electric heaters. There is no basement and no attic, thus no place for ducting. I have uploaded the basic floor plan for the house. There are 2 very old, totally inefficient woodstoves in the house. We are planning to replace the stoves with high efficiency double burn stoves. There is a 5” gap at the top of the Adobe Brick walls between the top of the wall and ceiling that I hope will serve to move heat into Rooms C and F (on the floor plan). All the doors between the rooms can pretty much stay open all the time. I am hoping this will be sufficient to “spread” the heat throughout the house. Any suggestions and/or comments about this plan?
The exception and what I mostly need help with is Room A. There is an older man with health issues that lives in this room. For a number of reasons, the door between Rooms A and D must stay closed most of the time. It is important that Room A stay consistently warm. The wall between the rooms is a standard framed sheetrock wall. I was thinking of cutting some small vent openings between the rooms and using small circulation fans to move warm air into Room A. I have read that using fans can create negative pressure issues in Room D (in our case) that could cause back drafting in the woodstove.
Any help with how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Will fans be an issue? Where to place them? What else might work? Is there any other approach that is better? Does it seem like the overall plan for the house will work?
Thank You.