
LukeLewis
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I set my wood stove up in a small room that's on the side of my house. It measures probably around twenty by twenty feet square. The room sort of looks like a lean-to. It's right off my kitchen and there's one downstairs door into the room. I set the wood stove up so it's right next to that doorway on the bottom floor. There is also a loft in this side room and together, the room height is around 15 feet. There's another door upstairs in the loft that leads back into the upstairs portion of my house.
The floor boards of the loft area have spaces between them, so the heat from the wood stove flows upstairs very nicely. Before we go to sleep for the night, I go downstairs and shut the downstairs kitchen door and open the upstairs loft door. The wood stove heats everything really good upstairs. The challenge I find myself facing is one where all the heat from the stove seems to want to go upstairs and not downstairs. Even if I keep the upstairs door shut and the downstairs one open, the heat still remains in that room. As you can imagine, the loft area gets pretty hot while the kitchen stays pretty cool.
I'm trying to figure out how to solve this problem. I think there is too much heat at the top of this room for a door fan to work. Those fans are too small. Plus, since all the heat is at the top of the room, a door fan wouldn't even be reaching it. Maybe a ceiling fan in the loft area to push the heat back down? Does anyone have any good ideas for me? The area in which I live doesn't get exceedingly cold - maybe 5° to 10° in the middle of winter. Another problem is that my house doesn't have good insulation. It's an older farmhouse and it leaks cold air a lot. If you can think of anything that might help me, please let me know. I'd like to get the heat from that room into the kitchen so I can heat downstairs somewhat. Thank you.
The floor boards of the loft area have spaces between them, so the heat from the wood stove flows upstairs very nicely. Before we go to sleep for the night, I go downstairs and shut the downstairs kitchen door and open the upstairs loft door. The wood stove heats everything really good upstairs. The challenge I find myself facing is one where all the heat from the stove seems to want to go upstairs and not downstairs. Even if I keep the upstairs door shut and the downstairs one open, the heat still remains in that room. As you can imagine, the loft area gets pretty hot while the kitchen stays pretty cool.
I'm trying to figure out how to solve this problem. I think there is too much heat at the top of this room for a door fan to work. Those fans are too small. Plus, since all the heat is at the top of the room, a door fan wouldn't even be reaching it. Maybe a ceiling fan in the loft area to push the heat back down? Does anyone have any good ideas for me? The area in which I live doesn't get exceedingly cold - maybe 5° to 10° in the middle of winter. Another problem is that my house doesn't have good insulation. It's an older farmhouse and it leaks cold air a lot. If you can think of anything that might help me, please let me know. I'd like to get the heat from that room into the kitchen so I can heat downstairs somewhat. Thank you.