Indulge me for a moment here regarding a wood stove and venting that heat throughout a house....
I have a Pleasant Hearth wood stove rated at 1800 sq feet - works great. With a few (common) problems.
The living room will be 82 degrees, the kitchen 70, and our bedroom damn cold.
So, I was considering punching some holes in the walls for venting throughout the house and ran into the arguments about which way air circulates best, the trouble with a bedroom becoming less soundproof with vent installation, etc....
I came across a thread advocating using the centralized heating fan instead. We have a heat pump that's fairly new. We prefer to use the woodstove, but I can run the system on "fan only" to circulate air throughout the house.
So, in theory, the input vent for the heat pump, which is conveniently located in the living room near the stove, should pull the hot air throughout the rest of the house, right?
But then I got to thinking, if the hot air is being pulled out of the living room, taken clear outside to the heat pump and then being pushed back into the house, am I not likely losing a large amount of heat in that process?
Sorry for the long question, but would vents/exhaust fans being installed in rooms be more efficient?
I have a Pleasant Hearth wood stove rated at 1800 sq feet - works great. With a few (common) problems.
The living room will be 82 degrees, the kitchen 70, and our bedroom damn cold.
So, I was considering punching some holes in the walls for venting throughout the house and ran into the arguments about which way air circulates best, the trouble with a bedroom becoming less soundproof with vent installation, etc....
I came across a thread advocating using the centralized heating fan instead. We have a heat pump that's fairly new. We prefer to use the woodstove, but I can run the system on "fan only" to circulate air throughout the house.
So, in theory, the input vent for the heat pump, which is conveniently located in the living room near the stove, should pull the hot air throughout the rest of the house, right?
But then I got to thinking, if the hot air is being pulled out of the living room, taken clear outside to the heat pump and then being pushed back into the house, am I not likely losing a large amount of heat in that process?
Sorry for the long question, but would vents/exhaust fans being installed in rooms be more efficient?