Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

The position of our stove, sends a huge amount of the heat straight upstairs. While neglecting to heat kitchen/study areas
So I do actually purposely block the airflow straight up.
The upstairs is routinely 8 to 12f warmer than the stove room
My stove does not throw heat down towards the ground. I can prove this to you with pics of infrared temp gun if you would like.
And as a matter of fact I have a full block walk directly behind the stove.
You can believe me or not I don't care.
My house is consistently at least 5f warmer with the blocks.

 

-19/71 Another cold one tonight! Just loaded up the evening load of Oak.

 

Dunmyer mowing llc Quick question about the air flow. Are you using any fans to help circulate or fans to move it from one warm side to cooler side of the house. A house I used to live in, we had to experiment quite a bit with ceiling fans and box’s fans. We finally figured out the combo to make the rooms more consistent room to room. But never was able to cool down the upstairs during the winter, was always warm up there. Upstairs was 77-82 and downstairs was 72-74 in the living room (where the stove was) and 67-70 in the first floor bedrooms.

Good luck getting that figured out.