Transfer heat from one room to another

[yottie]

I have a down-stairs room which can get over-bearingly hot from a wood stove. There is a room directly above which is always fairly cold. Is it feasible to duct some of the hot air up-stairs (hole in ceiling with some ducting ?) If my physics are correct I shouldn't need a fan. One of my main concerns is that my wife thinks it's a wild idea that will destroy the look of the place, I think a discreet hole in a corner of the ceiling, covered by a suitable grill maybe would not look too bad and would do the job ??

 

[mointainwalker]

If you open up a duct you will of course enable a heated airflow into your upstairs -room as long as this room has sufficient ventilation that you can have air-circulation.

As well as heat you will of course get sound: not too good if upstairs is a bedroom.

As for aesthetics can you accommodate a grille to everyone's satisfaction upstairs ?

 

[big-all]

and when downstairs catches fire at 3.0clock in the morning!!

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Its Darwinism at work big-all, can only improve the gene pool!

 

[Nige F]

and when downstairs catches fire at 3.0clock in the morning!!

line duct with an intumescent bag or get an ex kitchen piece of duct with an auto fire stop louvre ...and half cwt of grease to clean out

 

[RedHerring]

I don't know if this is much help:
In France you can get stoves with a ducted hot air feed take-off for other rooms. I don't know if it's possible to get an after-market kit to apply to existing stoves.

 

[ColJack]

plus steam and smoke and smells from what i presume is the kitchen ( say's stove but doesn't describe it as kitchen )

you could always get a heat exchanger and duct the steam etc outside while recovering the heat for upstairs..

alternatively could you fit a backburner to the stove and fit a rad in the room above?

 

[yottie]

Just to clarify things. This is a non-boiler Little Wenlock 4KW stove in a fire-place in a 100 year old cottage. I don't really want to start changing the stove. There is oil C/H installed, this would be just to utilise surplus energy from the stove/room. Thanks for all the interest.

 

[yottie]

NB...there are no smells or steam emanating from the front room where the stove is, well maybe at Christmas and parties !

 

[mointainwalker]

If you have a stove in a fire-place, then the hot-air is probably being concentrated in the space above the stove and if the bedroom is located above, then I would have thought that a duct from this area would be particlarly effective given the very-hot rising air.

As other posters have said , you need to satisfy your self about fire and smoke risks with whatever you choose to do.

 

[yottie]

The problem is it would be difficult to have a duct there as the stove is directly under the existing chimney, the chimney was blanked off with a steel plate with a hole in it to take the flue from the stove. I know this would be the most effective place to draw off the heat but, failing that, I was opting for an outlet in the ceiling along-side the existing chimney breast in an unobtrusive corner of the room.

 

[mointainwalker]

Well, there you have defined your choices.

1) Easy but less effective in the corner
2) Much more effective, but bit more difficult, hole through and duct from blanking-plate.

No easy, ideal solution, so got to wrestle with reality