Anyone have experience with these?
The "new" house has a pellet stove downstairs that could benefit from some assistance moving warm air upstairs in the winter.
Upstairs would also benefit from moving some more cool air from the AC up.
My primary concern I that there's no flue so I'm adding a pass through between floors in case of fire. Is that something to worry about or not so much?
Experiences would also be nice.
I put a muffin fan salvaged from a computer power supply downstairs next to the wood stove on the floor. It adds 3 degrees F to the upstairs. KISS.
in my old house, we cut floor vents through (the lower level was under the LR & kitchen. lined them with a roll of sticky foam-backed foil and put standard grates over, both in the upstairs floor & downstairs ceiling.
With the wood stove on, it was 80 degrees downstairs - toasty! 70 degrees upstairs, and low 60's in the bedrooms, which worked great for us.
Nobody asked any questions about the setup when we sold. And 15 years later, the house is still standing...
Do you have a furnace system installed currently? We would leave the fan set to On when we turn the fireplace on or the pellet stove.
And here I was wondering if Level to Level was a band, TV show, or video game.
In reply to RossD:
We do. It's oil, old and in need of replacement.
I was thinking we'd remove it (I hate oil), add a heat pump, and anytime it's below freezing we'd turn on the wood and pellet stoves.
It helped a little tuning the fan on but it's an energy hog. Just curious if I could do it with something smaller and more energy efficient without the risk of burning the house down.
I also need to force some cool air up to the second floor since the bedrooms get pretty warm during the day. I suppose a better/newer air handler would help with that though.
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