Please help with woodstove question

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Hello! I would like to install a woodstove for home heating, but am not sure if it will work well considering the shape of my house. We have a large front room, ceilings approx. 25" off the ground, with two small lofts overlooking the main area. I am afraid that all the heat will settle way up high, and the downstairs will be freezing! Any suggestions?

-- Jennifer Franklin Ortiz (oortiz@tstar.net), February 24, 2001

Answers

whats your heat source now? hows the air flow,, if you can keep the air moving,, it should heat everything fine

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), February 24, 2001.

Put in ceiling fans.

-- R. (thor610@yahoo.com), February 24, 2001.

We heat with wood, and have ceiling fans. They make all the difference in the world.

-- Connie (Connie@lunehaven.com), February 24, 2001.

We have a 30 x 30 foot square foot house, main floor and upper loft, all an open type plan (don't know how else to explain it). I also thought the heat would settle in the upper loft area and it would be overheated as compared to the downstairs, but that's not the case. It may have to do with the airflow in our particular house, I'm not sure. We do not have any ceiling fans, don't believe in using the extra electricity. We have one large woodstove from Lehmans and it heats the whole house quite comfortably for the third winter now. E- mail me directly if you need any additional help with this.

-- Rose Marie Wild (wintersongfarm@yahoo.com), February 24, 2001.

Put in ceiling fans and run in reverse in the winter, (blowing up).

-- Henderson (redgate@echoweb.net), February 26, 2001.


Something you might consider instead of ceiling fans (which might not be able to push the air all the way down to the floor) is something called an "air destratifier".

Its a fan inside an enclosure that blows the air in a concentrated jet down towards the floor, it supposed to use less energy than a regular ceiling fan and be able to move air more efficiently too.

Another option is to install some ducting with a squirrel cage fan inside it, you could even hide the ducting behind some paneling if you're concerned with looks.

Hope it helps a bit.

Dave

-- Dave (Ak) (daveh@ecosse.net), February 26, 2001.


Our house was 30x40 with a 26 ft ceiling and upper loft. the heat went up to the ceiling through the large opening and as it cooled it fell down along the north wall and down the stairwell and then the warm air was going up the large opening, etc. etc. creating a circular flow of air, it worked great without any ceiling fan altho those might have helped we just couldn't aford any at the time. ....................................Artie Ann

-- Artie Ann Karns (rokarns@arkansas.net), March 01, 2001.

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