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Moving Warm Air To Basement?

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#1 ·
Ok, here's my issue i'm trying to cure. We just installed a wood stove in our living room on one end of the house. Well it gets real hot in there and about 68-70 on the opposite end of the house and none of the wood stove heat gets in the basement. I was wondering if I could put a duct in the floor at the opposite end of the house as the wood stove and duct it to the finished side of the basement via some round duct and one of those inline booster duct fan. Will this work or am I crazy? I'd think it would pull the warm air to the normally cooler end of the house and then into the basement. It could return up the stairwell or I could cut in another return duct in the room with the stove. Any tips or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
#2 · (Edited)
Do you have a hot air furnace where you can turn the fan on for circulation. If you have adequate returns in the basement and the rest of the house, this will be a big help in making tempreatures more uniform.

You have to get the cold air out of the basement or the warm air will not replace it.

When it gets real cold (below 0F), I always run my furnace fan 24x7 because I have an open stairway to the lower level and less insulation plus a couple of bi sliding doors. It is much more comfortable and it eliminates the need to crank up the heat. - With a wood stove you have to be part forcaster and part someone with a crytal ball to just make a guess.
 
#3 ·
I wish I had a hot air furnace, it would make this problem much easier to fix. But i've got hot water baseboard heat. Right now my furnace is running a little here and there to keep the basement warm but it's not running at all for the upstairs.
 
#6 ·
Well we went into this thinking this stove would be working harder than it is to keep the house warm. Jotul claims the stove heats 1200 sq/ft and our main level is 1060 sq/ft. This house was built in the 70's and only has 2x4 walls and 2 good size single pane picture windows. We never thought this would be overkill. Thats really the reason the stove isn't in the basement. I didn't want to have to have the basement 80* to have the main level 70*, that just seemed like a waste of wood.

There is nothing above the stove other than an attic. And no, we don't have central air or forced hot air so we're really lacking ducts to move air around.
 
#7 ·
well all i could say is you need some type of way to move the air (i know you know that) and the most logical place to pull it from would be almost directly above the stove or close by i doubt an inline fan could do anything for you.
it would have to be more like an old airhandler that just had the fan left in it and some ducts to where you want them but if youre going to do all that might as well put central air in
 
#8 ·
Hi there. I am tackling the same issue: moving air in winter from the hot hot loft to the cool ground level half basement, far corner. how did your project workout and what did you do? I am looking at 50' of flexible urethane ducting, hidden along various corners, plus a solar powered silent fan designed to vent an attic reversed so it blows downward from attic to basement. I have open stairs that should remove the need to have a return to remove cold air.
 
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