Log fire fan

dane-katie

Ive got a log fire and find that there is a lot of heat "stuck" above my doors. I was thinking if i put a fan in our ceiling and used insulated piping could i suck the hot hair out and blow it in to another room?

Do you think this could work? also what kind of fan would i need to use?

Thanks

zeupater

dane-katie wrote: »

Ive got a log fire and find that there is a lot of heat "stuck" above my doors. I was thinking if i put a fan in our ceiling and used insulated piping could i suck the hot hair out and blow it in to another room?

Do you think this could work? also what kind of fan would i need to use?

Thanks

Hi

It went down to around -4C here last night, thick frost this morning, frozen birdbath etc, so with that and the weatherman saying that the sun wont provide any solar gain for a couple of days I decided that it was probably best to light up for the first time this year, so at 2pm we had 3,2,1,ignition .... thermal mass warming slowly but surely at the moment

As anyone with a log burning stove will testify, the first time you light up you get a lovely (:D) aroma as the dust burns off .... yes, I did the usual dust and wipe with clean water first to clear as much as possible, but it was still a little strong ..... anyway, the usual remedy to this and the odd whaft of smoke when we open the stove door is a great air filter/purifier which filters the air in the room and blows it vertically, thus also helping by mixing the air in the room and spreading the heat around a lot quicker, which it also gets used for when to speed things up a little on a particulatly cold morning ..... Perhaps something along these lines would be more useful than a standard fan ?

HTH
Z

Ken68

Hi D-K, would a conventional fan do the job. Placed high.... or the pedestal type.

Equaliser123

Wonder if these sort of fans are any use: http://www.rodtech.co.uk/wood-burner-stove-fan-p-52.html?zenid=65cb143d8bb576957ff46e5b180b40b9

Ken68

Or a de-humidifier.

zeupater

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Wonder if these sort of fans are any use: http://www.rodtech.co.uk/wood-burner-stove-fan-p-52.html?zenid=65cb143d8bb576957ff46e5b180b40b9

Hi

I looked at that type of fan a few years back .... our problem is that the stove has a shaped canopy and the base of the fan wouldn't sit/fit properly on the top .... the other issues were the price and the fact that they maybe a great talking point gadget for blokes, but SWMBO thinks they're so big & ugly .... .... you have to compromise some times

HTH
Z

energysavingexp

i know someone who in a large house open plan uses a large tube that goes from floor to ceiling with a small fan 5" inside it that sucks all the warm air from the ceiling back on to the ground keeping the floor area warm.
they also use a bigger version of this in big factories with very high ceilings to reuse the heat

happybiker

Be VERY carefull fitting an electric fan in any room with a conventional chimney in use. If too powerful, it will suck down the flue and pull deadly fumes into the room. DO NOT attempt it without expert advice. Recirculating systems as in post 7 are usually ok but taking air out of the room poses all sorts of safety and legal problems. Please be carefull, money saving is not a good idea if you don't live to enjoy it.

GET EXPERT ADVICE

whasup

Happybiker is 100% correct. Extracting air from a room containing an open flue is extremely dangerous. You will not know there is a problem until you (or somebody else) wakes up dead.

Equaliser123

whasup wrote: »

Happybiker is 100% correct. Extracting air from a room containing an open flue is extremely dangerous. You will not know there is a problem until you (or somebody else) wakes up dead.

Come on - you exaggerate. Nobody has EVER woken up dead....

happybiker

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Come on - you exaggerate. Nobody has EVER woken up dead....

Correct , but for every fatality that occurs, about 4 times that number of people wake up with serious brain damage. Carbon Monoxide is a very insidious and deadly poisonous gas that is heavier than air and builds up in a room from the floor level upwards. I actually know of a case where a family were sat in a room watching TV and their pet dog died of CO poisoning whilst lying on the floor in the same room in front of an old coke boiler.

I can tell you've never been involved in an incident, otherwise you wouldn't joke about it.

I did smile a little though!!!!!!!!!!