Tips On Moving Heat From The Wood Stove To The Hard To Reach Places -WHW -EP 14

[@BlazinRiver1]

I took your advice and turned the fan I had blowing away from the wood stove and put it in front of the room I wanted to heat blowing towards the direction of the stove, the room is around the corner from the stove. Well in less than an hour I could already feel the difference. Now the room is nice and toasty. THANK YOU!!

[@johnnysouth4982]

I turn my central air on so just the fan is on and it takes the heat through the whole house thanks for your tips and tricks

[@lightningxx]

Johnny South this

[@kftc1980]

Makes sense, but how much hear do you lose as the warm air leaves the heated space and travels through the ductwork before it returns to the heated space?

[@lightningxx]

Kevin R the same amount you would lose if you heated the air in the duct? Duct is insulated so should not be big losses or anything

[@lightningxx]

@White Devil Why would it defeat the purpose of burning the wood? The wood is creating the heat, you are using the fan to move the heat around the house....

[@lightningxx]

White Devil it does. The wood on my property is free (obviously). Running the ac fan uses little electricity

[@mcunard31]

A little clarification on ceiling fan direction. From my research, forward mode is counter-clockwise as you are looking up at the fan and is for summer time. Reverse mode is clockwise direction looking up and is for winter time. I believe you stated it correctly in your video but the fan was last shown circulating in the summertime mode or forward direction. Hope this clears up any confusion. Great series Eric!

[@tablighibayans]

I was confused from the video too. I think you are right. In Winter the fan needs ro spin clockwise, me thinks.

[@Chuck88keys]

I have been heating with wood since 1974, a year after the Ice Storm hit Connecticut. I bought my Avalon Rainier about 15 years ago with both front and rear blowers. Rear is the best because the design is different, so i can run that one slower and get more heat than running the front one.plus it's much quieter. I have a typical "door fan" such as the one shown in this video. Years ago i took a typical twin-bladed window fan, drilled a couple holes thru the top tabs and through a piece of 1 1/2" square wood and mounted that in the hall going toward the bedrooms Works great to this day. I had also purchased a few years ago a "Honeywell" Air Purifier, about 14" diameter and that sits on the floor, in front of the stove, about 2 feet away but to the left of the door opening . What i discovered was that unit works just as well as a ceiling-mounted fan when it comes to heating. That unit both keeps the air clean, there is NO smell whatsoever in the house. That Filter grabs the warm air from the stove area, sends it towards the ceiling, and bounces it right to the hall that goes to the bedrooms. It can be 10-below zero, and i can keep my house about just as warm as i want ( i do have great windows also ) 75 in the living room, 72 in the kitchen and at least 70 in the rest of the house.

[@brandonsettgast5177]

A little off topic but you can never have too much wood. People made fun of the amount of wood i had stacked, but then with a recent knee injury i wasn't able to cut for a season. We were really glad to have the stock pile. Great job on the videos!

[@YoungbloodFamilyFarm]

Brandon Settgast I totally agree, I had an arm injury early last summer, I’m glad that I had a few years stacked and seasoned.

[@18wheelerzdavid]

You could make your wife and kids do it

[@18wheelerzdavid]

While playing xbox

[@LB1280]

Couldn't agree more. I cut, split, and stacked a large maple that came down in our yard a couple years ago. We didn't even have a wood stove to burn it in, just an outdoor chiminea. People laughed at me for processing all that wood and asked "what are you going to do with all that wood?" Well we just got a wood stove installed in our home and now all that wood is perfectly seasoned and ready to burn, saving us on our oil bill. So to all those people that gave me a hard time, who's laughing now?!?! 😛

[@hubster4477]

Hello! Women and kids walk miles for water in other countries. And then have to evade crocs while getting the water!

[@mikebengyak199]

i lived in the tropics for 50 years, we did the same tricks with air conditioning

[@mandbhomestead]

Excellent video, like the tip about driving the air to the stove, did not know that. Thanks for sharing.

[@moyadonegan726]

Adding a vent in the ceiling above the wood fire with a duct to the furthest room. Add an eco fan in the duct blowing from the fire room to the furthest room.

[@UncleHoss]

For our house, we use an englander add on wood furnace that taps in to our duct work. It has a blower on it that pushes air through a jacket around the fire box and then in to the duct work. Keeps the house nice and toasty. Given our homes layout there was no other good way to distribute the heat from the wood stove. Great tips Eric. I am going to have to try out the fan on the floor idea in our big open basement.

[@joshuajerome2124]

Thanks bud. Also add humidity into your air. You can purchase a small needle gauge sunbeam humidistat at WalMart for a few bucks. If you get your home humidity between 35-55% (the comfort zone), then the humidity will hold your heat in the air longer. I know it sounds crazy, but I tried it with my furnace here in Montana. With minimal humidity, my furnace would turn on about every 10 minutes on a 0° day with the heat set at 70. By raising my humidity to about 45-50%, my furnace would only turn on about every 30 minutes and feel warmer the whole time. I advise a tea pot on top of your wood stove... in front of your eco fan. That's what I do to have the eco fan help distribute the humidity. At the very least, it helps my wood stove heat up the house faster when we get home. Thanks for the video and stay warm this winter! All the best.

[@dantovey2785]

Great video, thanks. Main tip from me is the upside down fire. Large logs at the base of the stove (oriented as described in line with airflow). Smaller logs on top and kindling on the very top. Add a couple of natural wood starters and some newspapers to get out going. Burns from the top down and delivers a hotter, cleaner burning fire. Uses less kindling too. Came to this method late but would never go back now.

[@sillililli01]

Great tip, thanks for sharing. Our wood stove got us through a cold spell of ten days, where the temperature dipped to minus 31 (- 31). We were cozy warm in our 1,500 sq. ft. home, day and night. Nothing tastes better than the food cooked on top of it, either.

[@daveroberts6884]

A very informative 5 minute video. I have the stove fan and an ecofan and a very well insulated house your cold air fan is intuitive but still I never considered it before. Bravo. Old dog, new trick.

[@bgregg55]

Also check out in-wall room-to-room transfer fans that help circulate warm air to those cold bedrooms & bathrooms.

[@georgehower3594]

Your comments about the efficiency of standard fireplaces is true. We have a centrally located heat-a-lator fireplace to which we added ceramic glass doors a couple of years ago so now we can burn with the doors closed, acting more like a wood stove. Now it heats much more efficiently! Thanks for the video.

[@matthewpingor8040]

Dude those wood piles are incredible! Very awesome great tips. One criticism though with constructive intentions... here it is... Plug In Fans Instant gratification from farm living lifestyle? Such is the box fan behind the wood stove. The "behind the stove" large box fan is not made for moving air directly off of a stove and or slightly angled upward or if it tips 30° to 45° to heat a room when it can inadvertently cool the pipe and inhibit the pipe to clog from the smoke cooling down early. But yes you are scooping that air very quick. I have had customers who do this and if you are in total control hey go for it. But it uh makes me lose a little sleep worrying about a chimney fire.

[@darenb6317]

Depending on how well the duct work was ran in your house. If you have pressure and returns in all your rooms. Just run your furnace fan. It will use less energy then running a bunch of fans. Great video

[@throttle_therapy0025]

I was just wondering that would work. Thanks.

[@HillbillyHoosier]

Transom window. Brilliantly simple. Adding to our house design notes !

[@MitchOfCanada]

Cover all return air vents in house and only. Use one for room where stove is. Key to have a oak or outside air kit for wood stove. I have 2 large box fans that blow via a pathway to behind couches to the stove for passive air movement.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

A possible solution for folks heating a small workshop. I mounted a stripped out cooker extractor hood a couple of feet above the top of the stove to collect rising hot air and have a small exhaust fan and ducting to carry that air to the colder far end of the PortaCabin.

[@patrickmeyer9419]

I actually use ceiling fan (on low ) to move heat from ceiling outward and down hall to bedrooms. I can control the heat by turning fan off to cool down immediate area and let heat spread on its own or turn up ceiling fan higher to move heat to outlying areas faster (at the expense of a fairly warm living room). Excellent video again. I may try the fan blowing to the stove idea when that cold air hits this coming week!

[@patrickmeyer9419]

Now THAT it's gotten below zero, I tried using thenfan to blow the cooker air towards the fireplace and it has worked well! Better than blowing heat away!

[@Tat2Power]

I have 12x4 vent holes cut in the floor of my upper bedrooms. Heat rises. It’s 23F degrees and it’s 68 in the farthest upper bedroom. Fan behind the stove helps push heat up the stairs as well. Heat rises. Take advantage of it.

[@The-Grateful-Hippie]

Use the fan to move the cold air towards the stove - genius! We now have our Timberline stove hotter than ever and we are not roasting. We have been fighting with getting warm air down the hall to to bedrooms, keeping the stove in the good heat range, and not overheating the living room where the stove is. Bless you! This simple hack has made all the difference.

[@farm_in_themiddleofthewood3339]

We heat only by wood and love it!!! You are so correct.... you need to design your house/cabin around your stove when you are NOT using any forced air movement! Thanks for sharing!!

[@fightingquads9198]

Clockwise rotation of the ceiling fan is for winter, counter-clockwise or reverse is for the summer

[@NM88310]

unless you live in china

[@fightingquads9198]

@@NM88310 LOL.......

[@StIsidoresFarm]

You describe our system exactly. We have a ceiling fan in the room with the wood stove insert, and then a fan on the floor in the next room pushing colder air up toward the ceiling fan. This set up heats our entire house.

[@shelleykienel2454]

I really enjoy firewood Wed. We have used alot of your tips. Thanks for taking the time to share your wisdom.

[@krisdellalawson5484]

great videos mate! I'm in rural Ontario Canada, just got a wood stove put in my basement this summer and it only just got cold here about 7 days ago and we are LOVING our warm and toasty basement and hardly using our furnace at all. thanks for the great vids, keep em coming!!!

[@Gunit0121]

City Slicker turning country. Thank you and learning a lot. Just turned my ceiling fan on. Big difference. Also, I know I will be cutting and splitting this spring. Thank you, again

[@stephenmahlstedt8533]

We have a cabin on the north side of a mountain with almost no insulation. Our wood stove is at the front of the house and our bedrooms and family room are in the rear corners. Until I watched this video, those back rooms were at least 10 degrees colder than the main room. We just started putting floor fans near the bedroom doors blowing outward, and now the temps in those rooms are almost the same as the main room. Thanks for the valuable lesson and inexpensive solution!!

[@timgiles9413]

This young man is the firewood King !

[@beglitchery]

I never knew about those doorway corner fans. Cool!

[@freedomisfromtruth]

And of course if you have forced air furnace, turn down that heat and run the fan only to distribute and filter the air. If you had 4 wire system with out C and need to run fan only, I just converted to 5 wire and have separate G to be able to run fan only, Im working on a video for that.

[@chriselson7413]

Great video 👍 I'm new to all things stove related, but have a look at Recoheat, looks a great idea to maximise efficiency and heat distribution.

[@EventheSparrowHomestead]

I really appreciate the tips in this video. We just moved onto our homestead this summer and are using a wood stove for the first time ever this winter.

[@tjinnes]

Good tips. Some wood stoves are capable of running radiators. These can be expensive to install but are a really nice way to heat a home. (Our plumber makes them himself from copper pipe off-cuts and then gets them powder coated. They work well and don't cost too much.)

[@davidgaylord2035]

i have a bathroom exhaust fan mounted in the ceiling above the wood stove sucking and blowing heat thru the attic and dumping into the far side of the house works great

[@robertrubino9741]

Some good tips here about moving heat around the house. A minor correction: whereas he's correct about running the ceiling fan to pull cold air up and push hot air down, the video showing the blade direction is running opposite to what he just said.

[@MrsBuddevil]

Haha.. thanks for this. I turned my fan on while watching this video.. even replayed the part to see which way his fan was moving... Then I saw this comment . Now gotta go change it.. lol

[@WandererOfWorlds]

Thank you! That was really well presented and concise, and gave me much to consider when I build my home/buy a wood stove. Nice and easy to understand too!

[@pauladavis7400]

Eric, need your tips more than ever...TY

[@craigholcomb]

More good tips, thank you! I know in a earlier video, you talked about someday upgrading your wood stove. I just recently purchased a Woodstock Ideal Steel Hybrid and wanted to let you know that I really like it. Super efficient and a beast of a stove. I know you mentioned maybe a Blaze King and just wanted to throw another option out there that you may not have checked out.

[@nickguthrie9309]

Yep,, any smoke coming up the chimney is heat lost. Cat stoves fix that problem

[@markrymer2908]

I have a fireplace but I added doors and a heat exchanger to it. It does a much better job at capturing the heat and dispersing it into the room compared to a traditional fireplace! Thanks for sharing these great tips.

[@gerardhaubert8210]

I like the idea of the above door vent

[@manonfireb4u2]

vents with a vant fant really helps put it up high and it will circulate threw your home

[@trustbuster23]

If you have central air, just turn on the fan without the heat to circulate the air. If you don't, my HVAC guy turned me on to these things called air shares, they are relatively cheap, but you could probably make one yourself even cheaper, assuming you have access to your attic. Basically, imagine a very simple duct system with an intake you put in the ceiling of the room that's hot, and some insulated duct work in the attic running from that warm room to the cold room. In the middle of the duct run, you put a booster fan to basically suck the warm air out of the hot room and shoot it into the cold room. You run a simple switch down into the house to turn the little booster fan on and off whenever you need it. You'd be amazed how much air something like that can move in an hour. That plus a few ceiling fans on low and the whole house evens right out.

[@danemieze1136]

Thanks for the tips, i have small fans in the back hallway blowing towards stove now and going to see how this works. All bedroom doors open.. Will putting bedroom cieling fans clockwise help too? The main cieling fan in the living room is always on clockwise while running stove I live in a 3 bed ranch with a stove in the living room. Thanks

[@travis2511]

Great tips as always! I use a small Vornado fan in my hallway. Going on year four and it's still kicking along. I'd highly recommend this brand for anyone heating with wood.

[@fiveacrehaven]

Great tips! They all work and are used while our stove is in use. Except the eco fan. I think winter finally decided to show up in MN! Stay warm!

[@timkneiski9919]

I have two eco fans they are great at moving air but people expect a big wind they gently circulate and that's all you need in open space .

[@Braxis111]

thank you guys so much for this video I just had a wood burning insert installed in my house in September and I have been struggling to get the heat to move throughout the house I can't wait to give these a try !

[@donniedale3522]

we bought a vogelzang that heats 3200 square feet. It has firebrick lining and draft controls. It holds 40 pounds of wood. We turn our 6 foot ceiling fan on lowest setting and it heats the entire house. Our winter monthly electric bill is about 68.00 per month. The stove also came with a variable speed blower. Makes winter so much nicer. You can set the draft controls and forget about it for about 8-9 hours.

[@ArmsFamilyHomestead]

Great tips Eric! I've looked at the eco fans but I just wasn't sure if they really made much of a difference. Thanks.

[@Chuck88keys]

That's all i did, was "look at Eco fans" at a stove shop NOT impressed whatsoever unless you will be using it maybe in a bathroom ( small bathroom or closet ) lol

[@markhoffman3288]

I have a great stove, but in a very large room - a small eco fan raises the temperature 10 degrees on the far side than without & costs no electricity. Keep looking guys, I'll be basking in comfort with very little cost.

[@exiledwest8114]

Fans won't blow out a lit match. Worthless!

[@vanrayandy]

great ideas going to put some vents above the door to get some heat in the rooms faster

[@YoungbloodFamilyFarm]

Eric, I heat with a Lopi Republic 1750 on the groundish floor with a block chimney going through the center of the home. When we “redid” the home we opened the floor plan as much as possible, put a ceiling fan above the stove, moved the “pass through” to line up with the upstairs hallway, and lined the block chimney with drywall on 2 sides, which act as a radiator. (mind you there is a stainless liner). Now if You can help figure out how to heat the basement, I’m all ears.

[@bobgunner3086]

I like the suggestion about the vents through the door header. I have seen open headers before too but I wonder if just the smaller vent might be a better option for traditional door/header construction. Also, I have heard of people installing a through the wall fan too. I don't care for the fans that go in the corners of the doors but a through the wall fan might be nice if its low profile and can be covered up during the summer.

[@WhatsUpWithSheila]

These were great ideas, Thank you so much !❤️ I often wondered why some doors had that little trap door / vent on top of door ...now I know💡❤️

[@cliptag825]

Wood stove on UPPER storey of well-insulated house in New Zealand. Creates high temperature above stove, but skillion roof with no "attic" space. We have a duct installed in a cupboard directly behind the stove and can assist air flow with a fan. Other than a ceiling fan to blow COLD air down the stairwell to the lower floor, any tips on fans and ducting systems to get WARMTH DOWNWARDS? Yes, we will move cold air rather than moving hot air - but tips on best arrangements?? Much appreciate your videos! Thanks

[@buzzsah]

sounds about right blowing the cold air into the heat, cold air is heavy, warm/hot air is lighter, but blowing the cold heavy air into the heat it will become warm and travel back.

[@Jimisuec]

You always give really Good tips. Thanks

[@NM88310]

A lot of common sense here but look at the world today. Thank you for setting the standards for... you know!

[@yankey4]

One small thing we do at the cabin. We will put bricks on the top of the wood stove. So that when it cools down at night and we are sleeping the mass of the bricks let off that stored heat. Works well for us. God Bless brother,

[@ArmsFamilyHomestead]

That's s a good idea.

[@stevecrippen7472]

We have heated our home in Ohio for 40 yrs. with wood,so warm we bought a woodchuck stove in the early 80s,double blowers ,it is in our basement,I cut 2 registers in our kitchen floor above the stove,,leave the basement door open our house is always in high 70s,,last ,buy a stove with a ashpan,so much easier to remove ashes and for restarting fires,MERRY CHRISTMAS CRIP in OHIO

[@yankey4]

That is cool. The cabin is small and has no basement. We may move there one day full time. If we do I am going to get a out door wood boiler. Most the guys out there love there's. God Bless

[@danielholtxxl4936]

yankey4 I advise doing more research before you lay out the cash. I have friends with outdoor boilers and they go through TONS of wood. One says he needs 15 cords a year. You will need a very large supply of wood and lots of time processing it. They are very inefficient, imo.

[@mywoolmitten]

Good common sense tips as always! Love wood stove Wednesdays

[@sillililli01]

We have a tradition of Waffle Wednesdays.

[@digbyodell2924]

What, no more open window rooms and three blanket rooms in the same home!? Some of us are decidedly more functional when it's 60 degrees F instead of 80 so I appreciate it when not in a state of thermal equilibrium.

[@PatrickWagz]

I've heard (on the internet, so who knows the validity) that the "thermal" fans that move the air once they warm up..... that they will take like 40 years to break even on cost, compared to using a small electric fan of similar size and paying the minimal associated electric bill. What are your thoughts on this? But, like you said, they would make sense in an off-grid cabin sorta set-up.

[@treeclimbing7798]

Cold Air is almost like a liquid, heavy w/force. Why it penetrates thru small leaks into a room/house.

[@cdiana1]

Fantastic video. Fantastic channel.

[@treeclimbing7798]

Outside air supply to any heatsource is beneficial.

[@anniegaddis5240]

Have a very Merry Christmas!

[@rodneyhanbaum697]

Great video and informative! Loved the tip on moving the cold air towards the stove! I'll definitely be moving my fans in my pole barn! Thank you! Have a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year

[@thelearninghomestead3266]

+LifeInFarmland new subscriber, I am having this struggle now with my split foyer home. Our England fireplace insert is downstairs and generally heats our living area well. The two bedrooms furthest away from the fireplace upstairs are ALWAYS cold. It’s a struggle every winter. I may try the transom vent and floor placed fan idea. Great video!

[@mrgray1909]

Love the video! I'm going to try my ceiling fans on reverse and see what happens! Thanks

[@zack9912000]

Love these wood stove videos

[@grasscutter1963]

That was another great well thoughtful video Eric, thanks so much. P.S. I love the wall hanging or letter stencil on the wall behind you. We have many stencils like that in our home as well. It just simply shows people you may have over the Love in your home. Awesome !

[@ashleytyler8292]

I have a traditional fireplace with brick.around it, but it doesn't have an opening to add a blower fan. Can I buy a blower fan and just place it on the step of my fireplace, that's right under the fire?

[@50shadesofgreen]

cheers Alex, always fascinating to great great Tip and trecks which ca save money and time

[@williamspencer7067]

Any tips on installing an air return (or not) when we get a wood burning insert installed? Will a cold air return help by eliminating negative air pressure in house that then pulls in cold air from the outside. Or, with an insert, is that unnecessary because of how little air it draws?

[@danwesson1934]

Question for you, we are thinking about putting a wood stove in our sun room. It connects to the living room and has a large window between the two. If we opened that windows, would the heat from stove in the sun room warm up the living room. They are connecting. Thanks

[@justinfoley4954]

This is helpful advice. Thanks for sharing. God Bless

[@Subterraorganics]

We are building new construction ranch and reviewing air handler options with wood stove as primary heat source. HVAC guys want to grab the air from stove and push to outlying rooms. I have been hypothesizing returns in low corners of those rooms and ducting back to behind stove and let convection and ceiling fans draw warm air back to rooms...any thoughts? Seems to go hand in hand on your video discussion. Thanks for the great info!

[@Chuck88keys]

I highly doubt the convection idea will be of any value. I don't believe the ceiling fan would be much value either when you have low-cornered vents. Be sure the air vents are a proper size, definitely not too small nor too large. Before i had any of that done, i would want to see if there are any tests that could be applied . Ceiling fan enough?? I doubt it Good luck

[@joyroc885]

So is it better to put a wood stove in the basement or on the main floor?

[@thevictoryreport1]

Great information. Awesome intro. Thank you for all you do.

[@biddydibdab9180]

Good tips. Thanks.

[@LowOutput]

Great video, I’ve been binge watching your wood burning series and you’ve earned a subscriber. I have a question rooted in my family’s desire to eventually move out of the city and into the country, so I’m thinking about design very early on. 1) I like the look of a wood burning stove as much as the usefulness of heating with wood vs gas or electricity, but understand it can be challenging to heat the whole house from one stove. Are there safe and reliable ways to use the nice looking stove that’s centrally located, yet also use that stove to heat a circulated water system that is in the floors of the more distant rooms? Or would I have to have to have a separate wood fired furnace elsewhere to serve that purpose?

[@michaelcarey1040]

That's what I'm planning on doing, taking heat from the smokestack by wrapping a copper coil around ( it's better to take it from the smoke stack bc that's waste heat too. Also incorporating a magic heat blower (they go in the smokestack and blow out heat that would otherwise go up chimney (boosting 30% heat). I plan on plumbing a hot water tank with the copper coil to heat it (thermosiphon), and also do a radiant loop (under wood floors) or into radiators

[@laconjo]

As a builing designer I would recommend focusing on site orientation to get solar assistance and northern protection relative to window placement and sizing and a carefully detailed and robust air barrier and insulation program which will lessen the demand on the stove and give you more freedom with regard to placement. Enjoy new digs.

[@jasonjohnson3424]

Is there any way to vent heat with a blower to other rooms, like a ductwork system?

[@jeffatcaliconstructiongene8830]

I am not using my furnace bc it eats propane however I'm using my wood stove that's in master bedroom. I am trying to get the heat from the room to the hallway and other places of the house. I have very tall ceilings which makes it difficult. I have living ceiling fan on counter clockwise and the bedroom ceiling fan counter clockwise. I do have a floor fan as you suggested blowing at the wood stove. I opened all the furnace vents in the house but left floor vents closed. Anything else you suggest?

[@ML-lg4ky]

Great advice

[@theweekendhomestead]

Great stuff as always

[@valdezfam8694]

My father used to close the vents of unused rooms. However, when I purchased my home and had an HVAC guy come, he practically scolded me and said he was not a good idea to ever close the vents. To me, it makes sense to close them. does anyone else have any experience of being told to keep all the vents open or is it more practical to close them?

[@devilinsidezozowwg1wga..702]

Hey I just moved in to a home with a fire place I had it checked it's ready to go. But I never burned in a house before. Do you have any tips on how and what to do

[@deshawncruz]

When you start looking up videos like this you know your now “unc”

[@karencatalano4349]

Is this the only way you heat your house. And how many cords do wood do you go through?

[@ShayWoodruff]

I tried using fams to move heat from one room to another isnt working. Ideas please

[@dscribner10]

Great tips!

[@oldrudedog]

I bought an eco fan years ago and I'll be honest I can fart and move more air than they do.

[@kevinlawson6188]

Thank you for your honesty.

[@ripposte]

Thanks for the info , I was going to buy one but as for now I will skip it and do more research.

[@micheleharo4228]

Half my house is cozy, other half is always COLD.

[@FarmFreshIB]

I love the wall decal! Where did you get it?

[@dkadwoa4114]

Can't hardly find ANYONE in Texas to put in an insert....😢😢

[@bridgettewood1713]

I would love too have a wood stove for extra haet however looks like I'm going to call my insurance comany too find out if we would be coverd incase of a fire.

[@terriefriday2462]

Thanks for sharing

[@gerrylundergaard60]

Great tips. When using wood or coal appliances, one must be mindful of combustion air and it’s source. In tight envelope homes, the stove will seek air from easiest sources like cracks, bath fans, dryer vents, or drafts. When purchasing stoves, seek non cat with remote outside air supply. Avoid the urge to purchase used cat model stoves.

[@UtwoBed]

All you need to do is remember the basic physics of convention, (hot air rises and cold air falls). Just place your fans to enhance this natural convection rather than oppose it.

[@greentom9189]

Hot air does not always raise. You have to consider pressure and your control volume.