Moving Heat From Radiant Stoves

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Post by mplynn64 » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 11:42 am

Can anyone give me some ideas on how to move the hot air from the stove around the house?
I have a Fronco Belge 144.08.2.. Stove is awesome generates alot of heat I have a Tri level home and the room where the stove is gets to be over 80.. second level gets to be between 74- 78 and then the third level gets to be around 70... and as you can imagine the lower the temp in the stove room the lower it is going upward.. how can I get the hot air to the third level?

 
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Post by WNY » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 11:50 am

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Post by grizzly2 » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 7:28 pm

In addition to mechanical means of moving air, there are passive ways of helping hot air to rise. Of course you will need to provide a relatively unobstructed path from your stove room to the stairway leading to the second floor, and from the second floor to the third. If your floor plan does not accomodate this, you are probably stuck with looking at the mechanicl ways to move air.

If you do have what appears to be relatively direct and unobstructed passages to the upper floors, you may need to provide a path for cool air to settle back down to the first floor without making that cool air try to flow down against the upflowing warm air. In other words you would need to provide floor vents in each upstairs room to allow the cool air to return to the second and first floor.

Before you start cutting holes in the floor of your home, you realy need to consult a heating systems expert to determine placement and size of such vents. You may also need to run duct work for the cold air returns due to having to deal with three floors.

With all that said, I realy don't think your temperature drops per floor are too bad. If you must have equal temperatures throughout all floors, you probably are looking at some form of forced air system. Good luck. :)

 
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Post by smokeyCityTeacher » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 12:13 am

I placed my wood stove in the basement - in the corner where the stack chase goes up to the 3rd floor. There is a rectangular opening that goes up the corner of my house all the way from basement to 3rd floor. This is where all the pipes run.

This has stopped my water pipe freeze problem with 100% effectiveness. Even in extended bitter cold spells - just the passive rise of heat thru this vertical cavity has been surprisingly effective.

Im still frustrated that my 100K BTU stove is way overkill for keeping water pipes warm and I cannot overcome the architecture to find a simple way to get all that extra heat to my living space on 2nd floor.

I can't just cut big holes in the floor and run ducts. I have a Hitzer 30-95 just sitting around waiting for me to come up with an idea to get its heat from basement to 2nd floor :(

I've contemplated a lot of dangerous stuff that people in this forum have fortunately talked me out of (thanks!).

good luck with your project!


 
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Post by Body Hammer » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 3:17 pm

You mentioned a chase from the basement to the 3rd floor. Could you put a wall register into that chase on each floor? Then use an oppropriate fan to push the heat from the basement up the chase and out the registers into each floor.You could adjust the flow at each register. You would have to leave doors open for the cold air to return to the basement. Kinda going blind here, but just by what you described, sounds like a good idea.

 
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Post by grizzly2 » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 5:06 pm

[quote="smokeyCityTeacher"]I placed my wood stove in the basement - in the corner where the stack chase goes up to the 3rd floor. There is a rectangular opening that goes up the corner of my house all the way from basement to 3rd floor. This is where all the pipes run.

Hi Smokey Teach.,
Be aware that a chase of any kind that goes up through floors needs to have a fire stop at each floor level. This would be a metal shield that fits tightly arround the pipe and seals to the floor joist at each level. In the event of a fire (from the stove or otherwise) the fire will very rapidly follow the flow of air up the chase and spread the fire to other floors very quickly. That is why balloon construction (stud walls going continuously for more than one floor) have been outlawed in most if not all localities.
grizz :)

 
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Post by Body Hammer » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 7:00 pm

Very good point grizzly. I wonder if metal duct would be permissible? That would make for cleaner air also.
Charlie

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