Hoping for some knowledge on the best option to get more airflow through my home. I just installed our new coal stove in the basement and its a heat monster down there. With the regulator on 2.5 its keeping the basement between 80-84. Ive got the basement door open but its an awkward setup for the heat to travel across the basement and round 2 corners to make it upstairs. We have forced hot air with duct work and im wondering if i should make a plenum of some sort and tie that into the existing duct work to get the heat throughout the whole house or just cut some large floor grates in the first floor and let it rise naturally. This weekend I did put in 1 of the 2 recommended cold air returns and that is definitely helping the cold air drop to the basement, but my first floor is still only at about 63 max. ( I will be doing the second return on the other side of the basement eventually)
House is 2400sq ft without the basement with 9ft, ceilings and an open concept. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks
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install vents above the stove into the second floor, heat goes up those vents and cold air comes down the vents on the other side of the house back into the basement... i have a 12 inch fan in the second floor wall in the stair well which pulls the hot air from the basement and blows it down the bedroom hallway. works great! whole house is 2200 sqft and my gibraltar mcc heats the whole house without trying on most days... we had 3 days of -15 and i had her humming around 600-650 face temp and the downstairs was 80 and the upstairs was 70. i hear she could have gotten hotter but i figured that was enough, and it was.
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Travis, enjoy your warm basement. You have discovered the age old problem of trying to heat a whole house with a device that does not connect to duct work or a hot water distribution system. I'm sure you may be able to get some improvement by adding returns, etc. but heat will never be evenly distributed throughout your home.
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Thanks for the info, its finally getting warm enough up here where the pellet stove is enough heat for now. Ill have to do some more cutting to get some of this heat upstairs. Im not so worried about all the rooms being even because we enjoy the bedroom cold anyways, so if i can get some of this 90degrees from the basement to the first floor ill be happy.
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yeah we keep the bedroom doors closed most of the time because we like the bedrooms around 58-60. we like the comfy living space of 68-70 and the downstairs around 78-82. its nice coming in the from cold through the downstairs doors into 80* tropics. lol even distribution is overrated. im pretty sure they have vents for the floor with fans in them, that would help alot too, suck the heat up above the stove, and blow the cold air down on the other side of the house.Travis603 wrote: ↑Wed. Mar. 27, 2019 3:34 pmThanks for the info, its finally getting warm enough up here where the pellet stove is enough heat for now. Ill have to do some more cutting to get some of this heat upstairs. Im not so worried about all the rooms being even because we enjoy the bedroom cold anyways, so if i can get some of this 90degrees from the basement to the first floor ill be happy.
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those are exactly the numbers were looking for, i just didnt want to cut a giant floor grate first without some insight but i think thats the route to go, thanks for the info.
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you definately dont need a huge one, a couple normal sized 8x5inch or what ever they are work great! especially the ones with the fans in them.