Circulate Air Between Floors

Very basic plan is to use some rigid ducting to reach from the ceiling of the 1st floor to the ceiling of the 2nd floor in the same room as the stove.

Circulate air between floors. There are 2 hvac systems both sitting in the basement. This doesn t surprise me as hot air obviously rises plus the 1st floor has the benefit of the slab heat sink. This tool promotes cool air circulation through duct work and other house passageways use weatherstripping and. Keep the forced air system thermostat fan on instead of auto position to help circulate the air during the hottest and coldest periods of time.

First if you also have forced air turn the fan on to help circulate heat. If you don t you ll simply feel the chill from the cool breeze they create. This is by using supplemental mechanical balanced heat recovery ventilation systems. I don t see a lot of air mixing between floors in my partly finished house.

What surprised me is that this morning the temperatures were the same. A ventilator fan can blow conditioned air up or down depending on the position of the blower unit. In the summer the cool air sinks to the basement and the heat must run to keep it at 69f. We had a hot day here yesterday 34c 93f and by sunset the first floor was 22c 72f while the upstairs was around 24 5c 76f.

By installing pass through air grilles in bedroom doors or jumper ducts in the ceiling between rooms to convey supply airflow back to the central return duct neutral air balance in each room is. An inline booster fan would push or pull air depending on the season. The larger 100kbtu system is zoned for the 1st and 2nd floor. And also keep them running at their lowest speed.

Make sure your ceiling fans rotate clockwise so they pull cool air up off the floor and push warm air down. The smaller 40kbtu system is zoned for a large south west facing 1st floor office with many widows and the basement.