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Post by Soccer918843 » Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 6:11 pm

Hello what is the best and fire safe way to put a register in my finished basement with drywall ceiling to bring some of the heat upstairs ? Thanks


 
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Post by 2001Sierra » Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 7:24 pm

Be careful and ask many questions. The heat does not rise as much as the cold air falls. It is not as simple as it sounds. Lessons learned on my part.

 
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Post by Soccer918843 » Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 7:25 pm

I do have a large stairway too in an adjacent room I feel it would help circulate the air with a register and stop it from getting trapped in the stairway

 
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Post by bigstick6017555 » Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 7:44 pm

I have a basic 75 x 30 ft rancher upstairs and finished basement with drop ceiling. One open stair well in middle and a closed stair well at garage end. In winter I keep closed stairwell door open and remove a few tiles from the drop ceiling right above the stove maybe a 6 x 6 ft opening, helps keep upstairs floors warm, I have no problem with natural air circulation. running a Harman Magnum

 
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Post by Holdencoal » Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 8:06 pm

I have the same style house but only one stair well in the middle and the basement is kinda too warm. I have a fan at base of the stairs pushing heat upstairs. The stove is between 300-350. It keeps the upstairs about 68-70

 
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Post by lincolnmania » Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 8:16 pm

my stove is in the basement.
i run the heat exchanger on the oil furnace 24 hours a day. it's not the best setup. it will be 75 in the basement, 70 on the first floor and 65 on the second floor. it uses a lot of coal.
currently working on a boiler install.


 
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Post by stokerstove » Sun. Dec. 20, 2020 10:48 am

Soccer918843 wrote:
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Hello what is the best and fire safe way to put a register in my finished basement with drywall ceiling to bring some of the heat upstairs ? Thanks
I assume you have a coal stove in your basement. I've have my old Alaska Kodiak in the basement for many years. One of my biggest problems is getting heat from the basement upstairs. I have tried many different fixes for this and my latest is working the best so far.
The Alaska has a jacket on top with a fan behind it to blow air across the top of the stove into the room. I don't want that hot air in the basement. I cut an 8" hole into the jacket and plumbed 8" pipe to a register in the living room floor. I blocked the jacket outlet with a piece of 1 1/2" square stock steel that I had laying around.
This has been working very well just as it is. I tried a variable speed inline fan which ended up melting the plastic blades! I have also tested using the original fan on the stove to blow more heat through the duct. To my surprise, this didn't increase the heat output into the living room. I installed a homemade damper to create more volume of hot air into the duct - this didn't help either.
My basement is more tolerable than before but still too hot. I think a complete jacket around the stove, plumbed up to the 1st floor is the best answer, probably supplying 2 ducts, one to reach a cooler section of the house. Of course this plan has much more involved.
My basement steps serve as a cold air return. I remove the basement door when the temps are consistently cold out and you can feel the cool rushing down.
I cannot advise you on the safety or code adherence, only what has worked for me.
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Post by StanT » Sun. Jan. 03, 2021 4:01 pm

I tried everything I could think of, Finally I got it to work. My house is a 2 story with a loft. No basement The upstairs was always much hotter than the downstairs, I put ductwork into both corners with fans and tried to blow the heat down into the 2 rooms downstairs. after a week nothing changed. I reversed the fans and blew the cold air from the downstairs up to the loft. The closer to the floor the better it worked. Sucked the cold air lose to the floor, warmed the 2 rooms and cooled the loft. Now I have warmer rooms downstairs and a cooler loft.
Good luck, Stant

 
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Post by StanT » Sun. Jan. 03, 2021 4:03 pm

I tried everything I could think of, Finally I got it to work. My house is a 2 story with a loft. No basement The upstairs was always much hotter than the downstairs, I put ductwork into both corners with fans and tried to blow the heat down into the 2 rooms downstairs. after a week nothing changed. I reversed the fans and blew the cold air from the downstairs up to the loft. The closer to the floor the better it worked. Sucked the cold air lose to the floor, warmed the 2 rooms and cooled the loft. Now I have warmer rooms downstairs and a cooler loft.
Good luck, Stant

 
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Post by Holdencoal » Sun. Jan. 03, 2021 4:44 pm

2001Sierra wrote:
Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 7:24 pm
Be careful and ask many questions. The heat does not rise as much as the cold air falls. It is not as simple as it sounds. Lessons learned on my part.

I heard this on a YouTube video about moving heat my setup is a split with the stove in the finished basement I turned the my fan around and put it at the bottom step pushing the cold air down to the stove and it made a world of difference.

 
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Post by BlackBetty06 » Tue. Jan. 05, 2021 8:34 pm

push your cold air!! forget about moving the warm air! The warm air will naturally rise when the heavy cold air replaces it. I have a rancher with the stove in the basement. Took the door off the basement steps. Bought one of those little black round honeywell fans at the store. Have that blowing down through a grate in the floor on the opposite end of the basement to where the stove sits. Keeps the upstairs at 72-73 and the basement around 78. I could turn the stove down and keep it cooler but I like it warm and burning my stove a bit warmer keeps my chimney draft going.

 
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Post by Holdencoal » Wed. Jan. 06, 2021 12:58 pm

BlackBetty06 wrote:
Tue. Jan. 05, 2021 8:34 pm
push your cold air!! forget about moving the warm air! The warm air will naturally rise when the heavy cold air replaces it. I have a rancher with the stove in the basement. Took the door off the basement steps. Bought one of those little black round honeywell fans at the store. Have that blowing down through a grate in the floor on the opposite end of the basement to where the stove sits. Keeps the upstairs at 72-73 and the basement around 78. I could turn the stove down and keep it cooler but I like it warm and burning my stove a bit warmer keeps my chimney draft going.
BB
This is what I get for temps too and at 350/400. I had the stove at 250 the other day on a slow burn and the house was still hot. I’m wondering if add a mix of rice will help.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Wed. Jan. 06, 2021 2:08 pm

Nothin ventured, nothin gained H. :)

 
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Post by BlackBetty06 » Wed. Jan. 06, 2021 4:43 pm

Holdencoal wrote:
Wed. Jan. 06, 2021 12:58 pm
BB
This is what I get for temps too and at 350/400. I had the stove at 250 the other day on a slow burn and the house was still hot. I’m wondering if add a mix of rice will help.
My stove is at 300 but it’s not real cold outside as it’s in the mid 30s to low 40s. Buy a few bags of rice and give it a shot!


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