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- coaledsweat
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The pic with the infrared thermometer has the damper in the closed position, up/down. Correct?
- oliver power
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.........and all I had to do is go back to the beginning, and look at the picture coaledsweat mentioned. I would have seen that you have no vertical pipe.
- keegs
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Morning LM,lobsterman wrote: ↑Thu. Jan. 04, 2018 2:02 pmWhen I first bought this house I got an antique wood stove and fired it very hot (over fired actually) and was trying to save $2000 per year in heat (had free wood). One side of the house was cold and the other hot. We taped paper strips in every doorway to see which way the air was moving. We found the path of greatest air flow and put a fan on the floor to increase that. Made a 10 degree difference for equalizing the temperatures. Now I don't run the coal stove nearly as hot. I am happy with 68 degrees. My belief is it is always more effective to push cold air to the stove then to try to push warm air away from the stove because the warm air wants to rise.
I have an 800 sq/ft, ,2 story building that I'm heating with the Chubby. Full basement, one room downstairs, 2 bedrooms and a bath upstairs. The Chubby is in the middle of the first floor against an exterior wall (there's a wood stove in the basement) Most of the warm air going up the stairway to the second floor dumps into the bathroom at the top of the stairs. Eventually it (the warm air) does makes its way to the bedrooms but it takes a while. I put two small registers in the ceiling above the hearth to dump warm air to each of the bedrooms above. They're small registers, maybe 6" x 12" and don't do much. I was thinking of installing a small fan in each register duct.
So here's my question: Would a fan make a difference in this case and which direction would you have the fan blow?
Cheers... Chris K.
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Move the cold air to the warm air. If all of you heat is ending up in the bathroom, try closing the door. There is probably a reason the heat is seeking the bathroom. Perhaps the fan does not have a damper?
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Morning QT,
Closing the bathroom door helps direct the air flow to the other rooms upstairs but it makes the bathroom cold. Partially closing the bathroom seems to work best. I'm not sure that the heat is seeking the bathroom. It may be that the stairway is acting like a chase, channeling warm air into the bathroom which is at the top of the stairs. It (warm air) will eventually circulate through the other rooms upstairs which can be just as cold before I stoke up the Chubby.
Closing the bathroom door helps direct the air flow to the other rooms upstairs but it makes the bathroom cold. Partially closing the bathroom seems to work best. I'm not sure that the heat is seeking the bathroom. It may be that the stairway is acting like a chase, channeling warm air into the bathroom which is at the top of the stairs. It (warm air) will eventually circulate through the other rooms upstairs which can be just as cold before I stoke up the Chubby.