Looking for sage advise as we continue our first winter season with Ideal Steel #852 (Ideal Steel #0852... | Page 2 | Firewood Hoarders Club) and its doing a fantastic job so far. LOVE IT! The only issue is that given our high cathedral ceiling we are wondering just how much heat is being lost to the upstairs and what we might do to optimize the heat in our lower level (especially the areas underneath the loft where it feels significantly cooler than in the open room). Ideas? Let me have 'em!
I have cathedral ceilings as well. I bought a new one of these AireShare™ Room-to-Room Fan Model AS1 on eBay for $129, and it looks to be good quality and is quiet, but I haven't installed it yet. That and my 30-NC ... On the same website there are other fans for moving air between levels. Greg
I'll be captain obvious- what's your ceiling fan situation? I have a 15' cathedral ceiling in our living room, and the fan turning on low in the "winter" setting mixes the warm air down pretty well.
I've got no issues with captain obvious responses. I have 3 ceiling fans all operating as they should (low and in winter setting). Wanted all options, tweaks, ideas on the table. Its heating the great room fine. We are plenty than comfortable there. The upstairs bedrooms are doing great. Suspect the boys are getting more than their fair share of the heat (haha). What we aren't getting is overheated (run out of the room hot) which is not necessarily a bad thing but given the heat I think this stove can produce it tells me I'm sharing a lot in the top part of the house where I might like to keep more down low. We've played with higher fan speed but don't think the added "wind" makes a significant difference (feels cooler than just running them low).
I've been working on remodeling and been spending a lot of time on ladders-- it is so much hotter up there. I think I am going to put a thermometer probe on the ceiling and see what the real difference is. Anyway, thinking about building a platform about 5 foot tall to put the chairs and couch on. How is this not a good plan?
If you have a basement, I might try a 6" duct pipe, under the floor, that would let you pull cool air from the floor way back under the loft area, and move that cool air with a muffin fan inside the pipe, to come up behind the woodstove. That should create a draw of the heated air back under the loft.
