How Do You Distribute Heat From Your Stove?

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12* outside & warm as toast in the house....with no central heat on!!

It was 10 above for 24 hours and we maintained 77 on opposite wall from stove, continueing across the dining room it read 74, at the end of the hallway was 71.
Which translates to the whole living quarters being comfortable or a little hot in the Living room.
Downstairs in the Family room was 80 at the other stove end and at the far wall was 75 near the entrance and laundry room doors and the stairway up. We have 2 stoves, one upstairs and one downstairs at opposite ends of the house.
In conclusion the floor register at the hallway end makes or assists air to rise and fall via the stairs.
That air goes both ways depending on how hot downstairs verses upstairs and whether the laundry or outside doors are open or closed.
Clear as mud?

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I'm quite happy with these type wall "Room to Room" air fans.

For dragging Up-Air into the house I slapped a Broan (from Lowes) bathroom fan in the floor joist....works quite well.
The Blue suff is Filter media.

A pic of the floor vent....just above the Broan power vent.

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Good Morning,

I have been reading about how you have solved problems regarding heat transfer. I have a Hitzer 53-90 radiant heat, in basement, with a box built around it 40 X 30 X 60 with three 8" dia. runs off of the box to floor registers in a 2 story house. Two on the main floor and one to the upstairs. The house is approx. 1700 sq. ft over all. I cannot seem to get enough heat from the stove to the main floor to reach an average of 65*, with an outside temperature of 30*. I have also opened the cold air return to the basement to hope to circulate air. Thinking of an older cavity fed unit. Any suggestions???

Hi Bil, you need to create a circulation loop. The box around your stove, where is the air getting into the box from?? is the box setting over the stove, and is open at the bottom, picking up cold air off the floor??

I'd put in a small squirel cage fan feeding air into the 'hot box', and hook a duct to the inlet of the fan. Run the duct to an upstairs room or hallway. With the fan pulling air from the upstairs, the hot air in the hot box will flow quickly to replace the removed cold air.. This creates the all-important circulation loop.

Whenever we try to add ductwork to stoves, we are trying to make our own coal burning furnace... but furnaces have cold air intake boxes with the circulation fan in the return box. The furnace never picks up room air, it recirculates the return air and reheats it. This is the circulation loop.

So if you can create some form of return air from upstairs to the hot box you have on your Hitzer it will work much better..

It sounds like you are handy with sheet metal,, could you post a photo of your stove and 'hot box' ??

hope this helps... Greg L

My Dad did the same thing with an "Ashley" wood heater in the late 70's utilizing a duct over the top into the main furnace duct which used the warm air rising concept. True it kept the house from freezing but the main source of Living room heat was the "Kero-Sun" heater.
His next/furnace was that US Stove company one (coal version) that had the twin 8 inch pipes out of the top and dual 500cfm (?) blowers on it. By having an open cold air return into the basement helped but it still wasn't a true circulation loop. It worked well keeping the living room comfortable till they got too old to keep a fire going.
Now furnace oil prices in the East are hurting them.

Thank you for the info. I am going to try a 4* duct (and duct fan)from my cold air return on my forced air furnace. I read about this in another posting. Or should I use larger? What should the operating temperature of the stove be?