Baking in the hearth room while freezing everywhere else

[Socal 610]

Hi All,

The issue I'm having, is my fireplace roasting me out of the living room while the rest of the house is cold.

I have tried turning the fan on the HVAC systems to circulate the air which works but uses more electricity than I’d like.

Have any of you installed a small inline fan ducting heat to other parts of your homes? Or come up with a solution to move the heat around.

 

[daveroy]

put small fans in the doorway of the Hot room blowing the lower cold air in.,... the hot will migrate to fill the vacume

 

[larry_g]

In my old house I put a heat vent above the woodstove and a duct pipe through the attic to the back bedroom to another vent in the ceiling. The pipe in the attic was wrapped with insulation and had a duct booster fan in it to a toggle switch in the wall. It removed ~10 degrees of heat from the front room and warmed the back of the house quite a bit. Worked for me.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[BUDD]

do you have a Fireplce or woodstove? anything you use in your home that burns has to have air to burn, if it's a fireplace all the CFM's of air going up the flue has to be replaced with cold outside air being drawn in through cracks around windows and doors, most modern woodstoves have a way attaching an outside air vent to avoid this happening.

 

[Socal 610]

do you have a Fireplce or woodstove? anything you use in your home that burns has to have air to burn, if it's a fireplace all the CFM's of air going up the flue has to be replaced with cold outside air being drawn in through cracks around windows and doors, most modern woodstoves have a way attaching an outside air vent to avoid this happening.

Budd,

The unit is a Lennox Montecito, they call it a wood burning fireplace. It does have a outside air vent

 

[bczygan]

do you have a Fireplce or woodstove? anything you use in your home that burns has to have air to burn, if it's a fireplace all the CFM's of air going up the flue has to be replaced with cold outside air being drawn in through cracks around windows and doors, most modern woodstoves have a way attaching an outside air vent to avoid this happening.

Yes, THIS!
Your fireplace is using the air from inside your house as combustion air. The negative pressure is then sucking makeup air through a million small passages from outside the house to make up for this with the result that the rest of the house is colder. You can have the fireplace retrofitted and remodeled so combustion air comes from outside and the firebox is sealed. Or you can have an insert installed that, in addition to getting combustion air from outside, also has a method of providing heat to the living space.

 

[EdT]

Most HVAC fan motors are less than 1/2 hp so running the fan may not be using as much power as you think. Turn off 3 or four lights and you'll probably break even.

 

[tdkkart]

There's a reason that old houses heated with only a fireplace had only a couple rooms, if they had more than that they had another fireplace or a large cookstove.

 

[CARS]

Are you trying to heat the whole house with a fireplace? Aren't they just for heating one room??

Is your furnace thermostat in the same room as the fireplace? If so, move it away and you furnace will keep the rest of the house heated.

 

[Jackfre]

look at the Enforcer from Tjernlund. www.tjernlund.com I have been involved in projects where we used hundreds of them and they did very well.