Success with moving heat!

[corey21]

I put a fan on the floor of the the stove room and wow i have created a convection loop it seems the back end of my home is warmer.

Do you keep that fan running when the stove is going seems like i should?

 

[loudog]

For sure! I keep my floor fan running all the time...it's placed at the threshold of the stove-room. Works like a charm.

ETA: Should have mentioned, the fan is blowing air toward the stove.

 

[PapaDave]

Vary it and see what works.
I have an air purifier pointing into the stove room that runs all the time, killing two birds with one stone...............
The other end of the house (M.bedroom) was always about 60-62 until we started doing that. It stays about 3-4 warmer now.

 

[rawlins02]

Yes, it is common to run a fan while the stove is going. Depending on your home floorplan layout, you may want to blow cold air INTO the stove room. This will force warmer air out. What is the layout like in the area near the stove room? Do a search and you will find many threads on implementing a convective air flow through your living space.

 

[Augie]

Once I get the convection loop going I can shut my fan down. Although I use a ceiling fan pushing air down in the room farthest from the fan to encourage the convection loop in my house. I would try running it for the first half hour to hour of your burn cycle then shutting it off and seeing how strong the loop is and if it is strong enough to
run on its own.

In my house without fans I have a 4-5 degree different in the house with the fans off all the time and running the fan keeps everything within 2 degrees. I have opened up the area above the doors to allow hot air to enter the rooms farthest from the stove

 

[corey21]

Yeah it works great i even noticed my stove room cooled off a bit the whole house got good and warm. I am so happy i finely figured this out now.

 

[etiger2007]

I went back to putting a fan on the mantle and blowing the warm air out, I did the other method and it worked too , I just got tired of a fan blowing cool air past us to get into the stove room. I also set a fan on the threshold of the stove room blowing cold air into the room and again got tired of of having the fan in the living room. I also have to think the blowing cool air into the stove room will help cool the stove faster and I dont want that right now. Im just playing around with things seeing what works for me.

 

[corey21]

For sure! I keep my floor fan running all the time...it's placed at the threshold of the stove-room. Works like a charm.

ETA: Should have mentioned, the fan is blowing air toward the stove.

I have it blowing toward the stove.

 

[corey21]

Vary it and see what works.
I have an air purifier pointing into the stove room that runs all the time, killing two birds with one stone...............
The other end of the house (M.bedroom) was always about 60-62 until we started doing that. It stays about 3-4 warmer now.

My room is the furthest room away in my house it was like your temps now it stays warmer.

 

[rideau]

Sometimes I put a standing fan on the far side of the stove, blowing past the stove and toward the rest of the house. Sometimes I put a table top fan on top of the microwave in the kitchen and aim it at an angle through a pass through window through the dining room toward the stove room, but more often I clip a really small fan onto the top shelf of the bookshelf at the top of the second floor stairs and point it down. I'll run the fan for a few hours. The first hour, the pushed air feels cool, but within half an hour I can start to see temps rise away from the stove. After an hour or so, distant areas will be anywhere up to 5 degrees warmer. Not wishful of supporting Hydroone, I usually shut the fan down after a few hours. If I notice a cooling in any area of the home, I'll turn a fan on again. Works well, and I have found that both pushing cold air toward the stove room, and warm air past the stove toward the house work for me. Either gets a air current moving in the house. and cold air displacing warm.

 

[NJmark]

I put a fan on the floor of the the stove room and wow i have created a convection loop it seems the back end of my home is warmer.

Do you keep that fan running when the stove is going seems like i should?

My first post...so bear with me. I have to keep my ceiling fan on (reverse) in my hearth room to move much warm air out of there. Otherwise that room stays hot (85 deg) yet the rest of the house will be 65 deg. Leaving the fan on constantly does a decent job of moving the warm air around the house.

 

[corey21]

My first post...so bear with me. I have to keep my ceiling fan on (reverse) in my hearth room to move much warm air out of there. Otherwise that room stays hot (85 deg) yet the rest of the house will be 65 deg. Leaving the fan on constantly does a decent job of moving the warm air around the house.

Welcome have you tried a table fan on the floor blowing cold into the stove room?

 

[begreen]

My first post...so bear with me. I have to keep my ceiling fan on (reverse) in my hearth room to move much warm air out of there. Otherwise that room stays hot (85 deg) yet the rest of the house will be 65 deg. Leaving the fan on constantly does a decent job of moving the warm air around the house.

Most every home is different. It's good to hear that this is working for you. Sounds like the ceiling fan is doing a good job establishing a nice convective flow. Is this an open floorplan?

 

[NJmark]

Most every home is different. It's good to hear that this is working for you. Sounds like the ceiling fan is doing a good job establishing a nice convective flow. Is this an open floorplan?

Unfortunately it's pretty much the opposite of an open floor plan, which I guess is why the fan is so crucial. Hearth room (which is our "family room") is separate from the rest of the house but connected. How do I explain this...main part of house is a square, hearth/family room is like a smaller rectangle that's attached to that square and connected by a 36" doorway opening. So getting the heat out of that room and into the main part of the house is challenging. I've tried different methods, but so far the ceiling fan in hearth/family room on reverse seems to do the best job of distributing warm air.

 

[NJmark]

Welcome have you tried a table fan on the floor blowing cold into the stove room?

I'd like to try it, but the layout makes that setup not too workable. To blow cold air in, the fan would have to be in the doorway where you enter the room, and then we'd be tripping over it.

 

[ColdNH]

Yeah, we put a freestanding floor fan in our bedroom which is like a 270 degree location of the wood stove. blowing the cold air out of the bedroom. without the fan the bedroom would be 58 degrees while the living room would be 75-80. With the fan the living room is about 70-75 and the bedroom is around 65 (perfect for sleeping)

you can feel the cold air rushing towards the stove even though the fan is very far away. i was shocked at how well it worked actually. We just installed one of those air-share through wall fans and now there is a complete loop of airmovement in the house. didnt really effect the temperature much but does help the air movement.

We leave the fans on 24/7