room to room fan

[Mroverkill]

im thinking of this one

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what do you guys think any better ones ?? how do these hold up



thanks

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I've not tried them but it seems they should work okay. However, you might find a much lower price on something similar like the little ones you can mount in a doorway.

Here's another tip if you haven't done so already. Setting a small fan in the doorway or hallway and blowing the cool air into the warmer stove room works wonders! Sure, it seems backwards but moving the cooler air warms the cool rooms quite fast and works much better than trying to move the warm air. You only need a small fan running on low speed. It might also work great moving the cool air while having one of those small fans mounted at the ceiling blowing back into the cool room. It seems it would just help with the natural movement of the air.

 

[SWNH]

I installed this one last year (same mfg just the variable speed model...although I only run it on high):

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I got it alot cheaper on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JGSMUK/ref=wms_ohs_product

It's reasonably quiet and helps warm an adjoining room (blowing OUT of the room into the room where the stove is). I've tried the corner fans and they are WAY to noisy for my liking and don't move much air.



I got one of these for a corner fan for another room (high/wide doorway) and it works great. Moves ALOT of air and is directional:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009RAVM/ref=wms_ohs_product

 

[Mroverkill]

peter the variable one is it loud at all on high ???

didnt get your statement but i take it you have it taking the air OUT of the cooler room ??? i would have figured you would have it blowing the warmer air into the cooler room



thanks

 

[vvvv]

peter the variable one is it loud at all on high ???

didnt get your statement but i take it you have it taking the air OUT of the cooler room ??? i would have figured you would have it blowing the warmer air into the cooler room



thanks

cold air is denser so the fan moves more air, a thermal loop develops anyway

 

[SWNH]

peter the variable one is it loud at all on high ???

didnt get your statement but i take it you have it taking the air OUT of the cooler room ??? i would have figured you would have it blowing the warmer air into the cooler room

thanks

No, it's not loud at all.

If you want to warm a room, you need to REMOVE the air. The vacuum created will draw air in...in my case from the warm hallway. You have to have an entrance AND exit for the air to get a flow going. Entrance is the doorway, exit is the thru-wall fan.

 

[Mroverkill]

ok what if i have it to blow the warm air into the cool room and then have the doorway open

 

[Mroverkill]

what i am trying to do is push warm air from the living room where i have the stove into a hallway where the bedrooms are there is a noticable difference so i figure i can blow warm air across the celing to help it along the way its not like im pushing into a closed off room does that help at all

 

[SWNH]

what i am trying to do is push warm air from the living room where i have the stove into a hallway where the bedrooms are there is a noticeable difference so i figure i can blow warm air across the ceiling to help it along the way its not like I'm pushing into a closed off room does that help at all

A floor plan diagram of your situation would help. However, as counter-intuitive as it sounds, blowing air AT the stove (or into the room with the stove) will displace the warm air to cooler parts of the house. I had trouble with this myself, but after trying it all I can say is that it works. It really works better than trying to push the warm air AWAY from the stove.

 

[branchburner]

what i am trying to do is push warm air from the living room where i have the stove into a hallway where the bedrooms are there is a noticeable difference so i figure i can blow warm air across the ceiling to help it along the way its not like I'm pushing into a closed off room does that help at all

A floor plan diagram of your situation would help. However, as counter-intuitive as it sounds, blowing air AT the stove (or into the room with the stove) will displace the warm air to cooler parts of the house. I had trouble with this myself, but after trying it all I can say is that it works. It really works better than trying to push the warm air AWAY from the stove.

It's one of the most useful things I've learned on this forum. Try it both ways and you'll see. My father has been trying to push warm air to the rest of the house since he got his Defiant over 30 years ago, with some success. I told him what I learned here, and he had better success and became a believer instantly.

When you push the upper warm air around, you are mostly just circulating what's already warm and hanging around at the ceiling. But when you push cool air towards the stove, you are doing more to encourage a stronger convection loop. The stove already wants to keep warming air and pushing it up, so if you feed more cool floor air to the stove the air will be more quickly forced up and out as it warms, spilling into the other rooms to replace the floor air.

 

[TresK3]

My stove is in the living room, with an adjacent entrance hall that leads to the rest of the house. I blow cool air into the room at ground level, which works wonders.

However, I'm thinking of one of these wall fans mounted near the ceiling to move warm air into my daughters bed room. This room is *behind* the fireplace and down two halls. I've tried blowing cool air out of that room, but there just isn't enough warm air at the ceiling level of that hall to move in and make much difference. Layout of the house and fan placement will make a huge difference.

My $0.02