Move heat with fans??
I’ve seen on here in the past about people using fans to move heat around their house.
We have a multi fuel burner (built into chimney so no ‘top’ to put a fan on). It gets hotter than we need of an evening and would like to move this heat to other areas of our home. Like our bedroom upstairs - burner is in downstairs lounge.
we open the lounge door to the hall when it gets too warm and have an external door curtain in there which I’ve pinned a huge blanket to prevent drafts.
we open the lounge door to the hall when it gets too warm and have an external door curtain in there which I’ve pinned a huge blanket to prevent drafts.
The stairs in the hall are open to the landing and short hallway leading to our bedroom. We keep the bedroom door open and all blinds etc shut in the room but the heat never seems to reach all that far.
any thoughts what type of low energy fan we could use to encourage the heat to go upstairs? Or another method if possible?
grateful for any ideas, thank you
any thoughts what type of low energy fan we could use to encourage the heat to go upstairs? Or another method if possible?
grateful for any ideas, thank you
NW UK
PV 5.04kWp South/West inst March 2023
6.5KWh Battery & 3.6K hybrid inverter.
12 x 420w panels
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12 x 420w panels
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our upstairs bedroom is typically around 13-14 degrees of an evening. With log burner on + hall & bedroom doors open we can usually get the bedroom up to 15-15.5 degrees but no higher.
there is no supplemental heating in the bedroom from 1pm onward each day.
we have a heated under blanket so don’t mind sleeping in a cooler bedroom, but I was just hoping we might be able to make use of the surplus heat from the log burner
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will let you know how I get on
PV 5.04kWp South/West inst March 2023
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gonna experiment tonite - will update
PV 5.04kWp South/West inst March 2023
6.5KWh Battery & 3.6K hybrid inverter.
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Mortgage freedom February 2024 🤞🏻
We are a bit like you but with CH
We have a part open plan house, ie massive lounge, fllor to ceiling windowns south facing, and a sperate kitchen but the lound open on to the bick area before the staris - the half of the hall is then seprated from this to the from door an area of about 10 x10 feet and have a rad on their to balance heat loow setting
We have rad on full, almost full blast ground floor by the stairs, hot near where we sit, lower setting others and as heat rises, we had the landing heats full but rooms and bathroom low and it works for us, ie heat moves upwards.
Thans
The old system had a huge cast-iron boiler in the kitchen which, while inefficient, heated the kitchen itself.
The new system had one radiator at one end of the kitchen with the result that the other end of the kitchen never really heated up and was always freezing.
I bought a set of 12V car dashboard fans + a thermostat off Amazon and rigged them up to an old laptop power supply I had laying around. The fans are at ceiling level above the radiator and blow towards the far end of the room.
The difference is astounding, the far end of the kitchen, once freezing, is now the first place in the house to warm up.