How to get warm air to radiate to first floor from basement?
i have a pellet stove in my basement and the warm air
is trapped in the basement and can not get it to travel to first floor. I have opened the door which goes from basement to the first floor and also added a fan to push the air up, but still no luck.
The stove takes the air intake from outside so
there is no back draft. Any ideas? Thanks
Leo
Thanks for all the replies. I am just confused on one thing. The stove already gets the air from outside so i am not sure why it needs the air from upstairs. Also, what is the diff between adding a vent and opening a window in my basement, would that be the same ? Does the cold air is used to push the warm air up?
Thanks so much,
Leo
2 Responses
GPEMT
01 Mar 2010
jahoo
01 Mar 2010
Floor vents. You need a way for cold air from the first floor to get to the basement to replace the warm air that is rising up.
You have to install some type of cold air return as suggested above. if you put in a simple floor vent your problem will be solved. you should place one vent in each room you want heated although not completely necessary this will be the best way to get the heat around. The vents will work one of two ways either the heat will come up the stair case and go into the rooms you want to heat while the cold are returns to the basement through the vent or (and more likely) the heat will rise up through the vents and the cold air will return to the basement through the stair way. If you only put one vent in and get one room heated you can buy small supper quiet fans then mount in the upper corner of a doorway. they use next to no electricity and are very quiet but then get the air moving and make a big difference.