Hi All,
Firstly, thanks to all that contributed to my other thread, this is a great place to find information and build my understanding.
Our problem is how to heat the downstairs and stop the kitchen from getting so cold. Ramble to follow...
So to recap - we have a 210L thermal store (TS), sealed system gas boiler, woodburner (Stovax 8kw to back boiler, 4kw to room) & solar - all feeding into the thermal store. We want to minimise the gas we use. This is the first winter with this set up and are amazed at how much wood we get through. The wood is a mixed bag and probably nowhere near as good / dry as it could be. The house is 3 storey semi - couple of hundred years old, fully insulated roof, double glazed. Ground floor has the kitchen as the extension (back) and the living room with woodburner (front). Back door is the most commonly used door (with letting dogs out etc).
We have a couple of problems when we don't have the gas on:
- the woodburner can not keep the house warm and the TS charged with hot water - you get a cool house and luke warm water.
- The kitchen is still the coldest part of the house by far and being "relatively" colder than the rest of the house increases this feeling of cold.
-- this is compounded by the heat in the living room when the fire is going well (i.e. the fire is getting the room really warm).
- it would be great to keep the ground floor warm during the day when we are working from home, but not need to warm the rest of the house.
- when you sit in one chair in the lounge there is a cool draft through the door.
So I thought rather than introduce more plumbing to consider pushing air into the kitchen from the living room. So a pipe from kitchen to just by the fire to push air from kitchen direct to fire, which would generate a +'ve pressure in the lounge, pushing air out through the dining room and into the kitchen. I was going to experiment with just putting some flexible 4 inch pipe on between the rooms and an extractor type fan to begin with. Anyone got any thoughts, suggestions, experience?
Regards,
Jason
Firstly, thanks to all that contributed to my other thread, this is a great place to find information and build my understanding.
Our problem is how to heat the downstairs and stop the kitchen from getting so cold. Ramble to follow...
So to recap - we have a 210L thermal store (TS), sealed system gas boiler, woodburner (Stovax 8kw to back boiler, 4kw to room) & solar - all feeding into the thermal store. We want to minimise the gas we use. This is the first winter with this set up and are amazed at how much wood we get through. The wood is a mixed bag and probably nowhere near as good / dry as it could be. The house is 3 storey semi - couple of hundred years old, fully insulated roof, double glazed. Ground floor has the kitchen as the extension (back) and the living room with woodburner (front). Back door is the most commonly used door (with letting dogs out etc).
We have a couple of problems when we don't have the gas on:
- the woodburner can not keep the house warm and the TS charged with hot water - you get a cool house and luke warm water.
- The kitchen is still the coldest part of the house by far and being "relatively" colder than the rest of the house increases this feeling of cold.
-- this is compounded by the heat in the living room when the fire is going well (i.e. the fire is getting the room really warm).
- it would be great to keep the ground floor warm during the day when we are working from home, but not need to warm the rest of the house.
- when you sit in one chair in the lounge there is a cool draft through the door.
So I thought rather than introduce more plumbing to consider pushing air into the kitchen from the living room. So a pipe from kitchen to just by the fire to push air from kitchen direct to fire, which would generate a +'ve pressure in the lounge, pushing air out through the dining room and into the kitchen. I was going to experiment with just putting some flexible 4 inch pipe on between the rooms and an extractor type fan to begin with. Anyone got any thoughts, suggestions, experience?
Regards,
Jason
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