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Post by ken » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 1:48 am

I was sitting buy the stove and was wondering if I hold the record here for the most fans. :rofl: Lets see , the stove has 3 , 1-16" pedastol fan behind it about , 2' higher than the stove. 1-20" box fan on left side to keep wall nice and cool , also wash heat off flue pipe and side of stove. 2-42" ceiling fans on low , to just keep the heat moving around. 2-double window fans in the floor , pushing heat into the basement. 1 in my room to help suck heat in there and heat the front of the basement , that one is on low. 1 in the kitchen , the farest point in the house , sucking warm air to the kitchen. that one is on med. 1-16" pedistol fan in the basement below the one in the kitchen floor to push the warmth through out the basement. Dam thats alot , 10 fans. the house is mosly 75 , the kitchen 72 , my room 72 ,and basement about 65. Pretty much stays that way all winter , till below zero stuff.

 
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Post by traderfjp » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 7:00 am

I tried all that and in my situation it made a minimal difference. Turn all the fans off but one to circulate air that is in the stove's room and see if the heat circulates to other parts of the house.

 
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Post by Devil505 » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 7:56 am

ken wrote:I was sitting buy the stove and was wondering if I hold the record here for the most fans.
Well you sure have me beat! I have:

1. Blower fan attached to the TLC
2. Small ceiling mounted fan 1/2 way across family room to blow warm air towards the stairs
3. One bathroom exhaust fan (ceiling mounted in the fam. room suspended ceiling & venting into the central furnace's warm air ducts....Provides a nice steady trickle of warm air out of the floor registers upstairs)
4. New powered vent above my computer blowing warm air up into lr/dr. (New Distribution Vent)

I rarely have them all on at the same time but they keep my split-entry ranch pretty uniform, temp wise. A few fans are on timers o turn on/off automatically when I want. (Stove blower is set to go on at 4:00AM to start heating the upstairs better & off at 11:30PM)

 
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 8:17 am

Zero. My stove is in the basement next to the stairwell, I tried using two fans to wash heat off the stove but all it did was spread the heat around the basement. It seems that no fans at all allows the heat to rise up off the stove and upstairs.


 
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Post by ken » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 11:16 am

My first floor is 1,200 sf. The 2 I have pushing heat into the basement help keep my water and boiler pipes from freezing. Also pull heat into those rooms. The pedistol in the basement has it dry as a bone down there. The pedistol fan and box fan are on a stove stat. They only come on when the stove gets to burning. Seams to be working out OK. Good thing electric is cheap here. I'm sure their adding about $15 a month to the bill. I keep track to get a better figure this year.

 
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Post by captcaper » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 12:04 pm

good point about electric fees. I have the blower going,and one fan to help push it up the stairway. Electric isn't cheap here. Truck Insurance is though. :D

 
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Post by JohnnyAsbury » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 12:17 pm

4-ceiling fans (on low, blowing upwards)
1-boxfan blowing up the stairwell to the 2nd floor

 
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Post by BIG BEAM » Sat. Nov. 15, 2008 4:28 pm

Sounds like you guys need a furnace,not a stove.They move the air to all the rooms evenly.And if you run the fans on the furnace 24/7 it's even better.I have a 1-1/2 story 1700 sq.ft. old drafty house.I hooked the feed from my coal furnace to the feed in my oil ducts and here is the kicker.My coal furnaces return is in the LR connected to a 10"duct.That's right 1-10" flex duct is where my coal furnace gets all it's air from.The house is more even with the coal furnace than with the oil furnace .BTW the oil furnace has 5 return ducts.

When I use my wood stove in the spring and fall I do put a pedestal fan behind it.They do help wash the heat off the stove much better.
DON

Oh so my answer is one at a time.Electric is pricey boys ! And I'm cheap.


 
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Post by sharkman8810 » Sat. Nov. 15, 2008 6:53 pm

I have 3 fans, 1 in the duct from my heat collector plenum to the register upstairs, 1 on a tap off of a cold air return to supply basement air, and 1 to help move the air in to the stove room in the basement. So far I've been heating my whole house this way, which I didnt expect too. This is the first year , and we havent had the coldest weather by far, so this is still a work in progress.

 
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Post by rockwood » Sat. Nov. 15, 2008 7:04 pm

I have a four level split home with the stove on the second level in a 13'x20' room and there is a ceiling fan at the opposite end from the stove. If I run this fan it interrupts the flows of heated air leaving and cool air returning to the room with the stove making the rest of the house too cool and the area by the stove hotter. If it gets too hot upstairs I can use this fan to help cool it down by keeping the heat by the stove.
Not saying you shouldn't use ceiling or other fans but it proved to me they can hinder instead of help distribute heat.

 
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Post by Devil505 » Sat. Nov. 15, 2008 8:07 pm

rockwood wrote:Not saying you shouldn't use ceiling or other fans but it proved to me they can hinder instead of help distribute heat.
My house has only 7' ceilings so using ceiling fans is a negative for us in the winter, comfort wise. (The moving air just makes it feel cooler & there's no hot air being wasted up in cathedral ceiling)

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