Room is too hot

[LISound]

The wife and her family must have come from Alaska---they are always cold.
How do I keep a good hot fire going without heating myself out of the room.
the insert is in the family room with only one doorway leading in...the room gets up to and over 80 degrees. That's just too much heat for me.
I open a window but even that doesn't make much of a difference...if i shut the fan off the room does cool within about 30 min or so.
We don't have the heat on anywhere else in the house...so in the kitchen, where it's 70--that feels cold to them.

what can i do here---I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.

I put a fan in the doorway from the family room to the kitchen...but it's not pushing that much hot air out of the family room.

Any thoughts?

 

[Todd]

Try a box fan on the floor pointed to the room the stove is in. Cold air is more dense and if you can push it back towards the stove room the lighter warm air will circulate back around to replace the cool air.

 

[raybonz]

The wife and her family must have come from Alaska---they are always cold.
How do I keep a good hot fire going without heating myself out of the room.
the insert is in the family room with only one doorway leading in...the room gets up to and over 80 degrees. That's just too much heat for me.
I open a window but even that doesn't make much of a difference...if i shut the fan off the room does cool within about 30 min or so.
We don't have the heat on anywhere else in the house...so in the kitchen, where it's 70--that feels cold to them.

what can i do here---I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.

I put a fan in the doorway from the family room to the kitchen...but it's not pushing that much hot air out of the family room.

Any thoughts?

Ceiling fans can help move the air combined with a box fan other than that not sure what you can do..

Ray

 

[glassmanjpf]

I have the same issue. Room with the stove could reach 80. When it hits that I'll usually open the front door for 15 minutes and cool the room down to a chillin 75 F. Gotta love it, especially since the wood is free over here.

 

[snydley]

The wife and her family must have come from Alaska---they are always cold.
How do I keep a good hot fire going without heating myself out of the room.
the insert is in the family room with only one doorway leading in...the room gets up to and over 80 degrees. That's just too much heat for me.
I open a window but even that doesn't make much of a difference...if i shut the fan off the room does cool within about 30 min or so.
We don't have the heat on anywhere else in the house...so in the kitchen, where it's 70--that feels cold to them.

what can i do here---I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.

I put a fan in the doorway from the family room to the kitchen...but it's not pushing that much hot air out of the family room.

Any thoughts?

I was having the same problem, I'm new to this, since Jan. My workaround for this is to I start the fire normally, once I have a good fire going I put 2 small to medium size logs in, and when they're burned about 3/4 of the way and I have a nice bed of embers I'll put one small log on, and not put any more on until that one is almost burnt up, and keep repeating this. The trick, I think, is to NOT put too much wood on the fire once you have a nice bed of embers. I have a small ranch house, 960 sq.ft.
and at first I just kept "throwing" the logs at the fire and the temp. was getting to 80 - 83 degrees. It was just too hot. It works much better this way for me.

 

[jadm]

I recently replaced my smaller insert for a larger insert. I now get plenty of heat. What I have found is that once I get my room up to temp. 72*-74* I can stop adding wood and let the coals maintain the temp.

My new insert really holds the heat in for hours at a time and the coals burn hot for a long time too. Lately it has taken about 2-3 hours to get insert and room heated up and then I haven't had to add wood for the rest of the day or night. It is 12:30A.M. now and temp. in this room is 70*. Last wood put on fire at 10:00 A.M.

If things cool down too much - I add fewer splits like ' Snydley' described above.

 

[Jags]

Don't gloss over Todd's answer. Move the cold air and the warm will take care if itself. Again, move the cold air TOO the stove.

 

[Ncountry]

If your house is set up with duct work for a hot air heating system . Maybe you could use the furnace fan to move heat from one room to another ?

 

[WarmGuy]

If your house is set up with duct work for a hot air heating system . Maybe you could use the furnace fan to move heat from one room to another ?

I've tried this, and it didn't seem to make much difference. Also, the whole-house fan consumes 500 watts.

 

[LISound]

we do have a ceiling fan in the room with the stove and that goes on low.
I have the fan blowing the hot air out---I'll turn it around and try that.
As well as not loading the stove as much---the wife will just have to settle for 75.

 

[Henz]

I hear you. this time of the year when the daytime temps are in the 50-60's its tough having a fire going, but come around 6-7pm, you need to have one started for the evening