OK, I was trying out idea of pushing air from room toward the stove and for me it was a disaster. Here is what happened. I got the stove up to 600 degrees and then closed my damper, left the 'thermostat" open wide and pointed a small fan toward the stove, the stove went from 600 to 250 in a few minutes, I shut off the fan and within 2 minutes the stove was back up to 600 after I opened up the damper again, now closed damper and NO FAN on toward stove and it is holding at 550 or so. Did I miss something or maybe on the older Vermont Castings non catalytic stoves pointing air toward the stove does not work and in fact just acts to cool the stove. NOT hot stove, NOT warm room. I feel I am not getting all the heat out of this stove to begin with. Room is 12x20 ft room and using a Vermont Castings Resolute lll and the room gets warm slowly by one degree at a time and it can take hours to go from 62 to 68. Not sure if stove or me.