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11/28/13, 01:59 AM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: SW Missouri
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Wood stove heat flow
So the new england wood stove puts out a lot of heat and I'd like to get some of it into the master bed and bath. It sits in a corner at the ne section of the basic rectangle house. The next room over to the west is the laundry room, and the next room to the west of that is the master bath which is the coldest room, and then the master bed. The heat does good going down the hall and getting into the other bedrooms, even the master, as long as the doors are open of course. Master bath is the hardest to reach though. Bedrooms will be around 5-10 degrees cooler than kitchen/living room area where the stove is.
We can live fine as is, and electric heat is available in each room but I don't like to use it at all. I was thinking of cutting out a square in the laundry/living room wall near the stove and another square in the laundry/master bath wall in order to facilitate air flow. Thoughts on this? Thanks.
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11/28/13, 03:28 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: polk co ar
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i d try a slow moving fan before i cut walls actually i like b/r to be cooler than other rooms
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11/28/13, 06:36 AM
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A wood stove in the corner is no match for a properly designed central heating system with duct work. So, what ever you do, short of that, will be a compromise.
Heat rises, so if you could pull the cold air from the floor of the coldest room to the area closest to the wood stove, you can reduce the temperature differences.
Chopping out holes in the walls and fashioning fans over the holes would get the air moved around.
Placing the single heat source in a more central location would help, if that were possible.
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11/28/13, 07:05 AM
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Location: South Central Missouri
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Since I built the house in stages, there is a window between the room with the wood stove and the kitchen in which every winter I place a fan that moves air effectively and warms the room.
We have placed a fan (box or pedestal fan) behind the stove but aimed at the doorway of a room on the other side of the house,to push air from one room to another. That works fairly well but doesn't send enough heat to the other room. I would like to heat that room with the heat from the central wood-burner, though, and eventually I want to cut a small hole in the upper part of the wall and install a small exhaust fan fixture there to move air from one side of the wall to the other. Those sorts of fans, the sort used in bathrooms or over kitchen stoves, can be noisy but they do make quieter ones, it's just that the quieter they are the more expensive they become.
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11/28/13, 07:38 AM
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Location: W. Oregon
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Put a ceiling fan over the wood stove to push warm air down and out to the other parts of the house. If there is a window in the bathroom, crack it a little. If the wind blows directly in the window that does not work....James
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11/28/13, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: EastTN: Former State of Franklin
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10 degrees cooler sounds about right for sleeping.We use a down feather top cover and snuggle ! 
Central heating is highly overrated.
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11/28/13, 08:25 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: SW Missouri
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Ceiling fans do the job for us, unless it's unusually cold. Then we turn the fan on in the central heat to distribute air throughout the house. Put the ceiling fans on reverse to push the warm air off the ceilings.
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11/28/13, 09:32 PM
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if you have a attic............8 inch vent in ceiling of room with heater, 8 inch flex run to corner of room your trying to warm up keep it (vent) away from door across room ideal......put a 8 inch duct pusher fan in ductwork, a cheap 110 volt thermostat on wall of bedroom,,,,,,,,,,there you have heat moved.....easy and cheap but I would be wrong to not say outside wood heater is best......mess and fire is outside!
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11/29/13, 10:38 AM
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Location: ny
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Put a fan on the floor in your colder areas, blowing back towards the heat.
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11/29/13, 05:25 PM
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Here in New England our woodstove heats water. It sits in the center of our house, under a ceiling fan. The heated water heats a thermal-bank downstairs. The thermal-bank heats our radiant floors.
With the fan, all air in our home is evenly heated and it can not stratify [form into layers].
With heated floors, we need much less heat. We go through around 3 1/2 cords of firewood / year to heat our 2400 sq ft home.
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11/29/13, 11:36 PM
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I just installed a New England Stove. We have a 1900 sq. foot home and we are opening windows and the front door. Our old stove was an Arrow. When I took it out the tag in the back said it was manufactured in 1981. It ate wood like cows eat grass, that is to say continuously. When it was really cold, like 15 below zero it was borderline. The ceiling fan did a pretty good job after the stove blower died. Does yours have a blower? Home depot also sells inexpensive fans that attach to the door frame of the room you want to heat.
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11/30/13, 09:09 AM
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Is there any kind of air conditioning or heating ductwork in the house? If so you could turn on the circulating fan.
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11/30/13, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Maine, once land's paid off
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ET1 SS
Here in New England our woodstove heats water. It sits in the center of our house, under a ceiling fan. The heated water heats a thermal-bank downstairs. The thermal-bank heats our radiant floors.
With the fan, all air in our home is evenly heated and it can not stratify [form into layers].
With heated floors, we need much less heat. We go through around 3 1/2 cords of firewood / year to heat our 2400 sq ft home.
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ET1 SS, Could I know more about your system? I'm getting ready to build up in Maine, and am still in early design stage of the house. You have what I've been thinking through. I fancy this: http://www.edilkamin.com/en/termocam...rismatico.aspx but I don't know if it's enough. It's funny; your square footage is exactly what my wife wants, but I'm trying to get as small as is comfortable for a family of 4. Would you mind going further into your overall components?
Thanks!
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11/30/13, 02:58 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Maine, once land's paid off
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Wow, man! I've looked through those posts. Were you a 'Nuke'? You're a clever dude. AND you're right in Maine, too?? I'm building on the southern shore of Pleasant Lake, in Aroostook county. Where are you? I wanna be able to keep picking your brain, lol...
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11/30/13, 05:42 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokletu
Wow, man! I've looked through those posts. ... you're right in Maine, too?? I'm building on the southern shore of Pleasant Lake, in Aroostook county. Where are you? I wanna be able to keep picking your brain, lol...
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It sounds like you looking in the Island Falls to maybe 'T4-R3' area, off exit 276. I am off exit 199, so only 75+ miles South of your place.
We picked up 150 acres of forest with 1/4 mile of Penobscot River frontage, and we are fairly happy with it.
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11/30/13, 08:33 PM
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Location: SW Missouri
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Thanks for the replies. The vent in the ceiling is interesting. I may try the fan on the floor but we have a little one crawling around so it may not work well. I also might just do a cutout in the wall between the master bath and laundry since the laundry room gets pretty warm, and it could also serve to easily transfer dirty clothes.
No central heat/ac in the house btw.
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12/01/13, 04:21 PM
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We heat our 1200 square foot downstairs with a Century EPA wood stove. The house is on an open design with the livingroom dining area kitchen and family area all one big room. There are two bedrooms down stairs and a large unfinished room upstairs. That stove will roast us out of the main room without breaking a sweat. We open up the upstairs door and bleed off some of the heat to up there but usually have to open up the doors to the attached unheated shop in order to be comfortable.
The stove came with an attachable blower and this weekend DH came up with an idea to use the blower in order to vent the excess heat into the shop. He used a salvaged floor duct from our old house along with a section of duct work that he attached to the knockout on the back of the stove. The stove sits close enough to the wall that running the pipe through the wall and into the shop was no problem. He attached the squirrel cage fan to the pipe in the shop and wired it in. Now the excess heat is being vented into the shop. The house temp stays in the 70s and the shop is comfortable.
We don't know how it will work in super cold weather but it's working for now. I heartily agree. Get creative with fans.
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