Moving Warm Air To The Floor

Move air up or down.

Moving warm air to the floor. Warm air moving up is indeed what we see but warm air has no internal energy that makes it move up or down. In an effort to clear the air so to speak i would like to discuss better wording that may help to correct this long ignored science. Keep in mind i am heating with forced hot air perhaps if you heat with wood or force hot water. Make sure your ceiling fans rotate clockwise so they pull cool air up off the floor and push warm air down.

Then the smaller fan blows that warm air into the rest of the house. The big fan blows the warm air from the warm room into the intermediary room. And also keep them running at their lowest speed. Moving hot air from ceiling to floor i have been contacted by a lady kari that has a vertical pipe that she uses during the winter to move hot air from underneith the ceiling to the floor in her small house.

Floor grilles can be installed to encourage the heat to rise to the main floor but our experience is that such grilles have to be very large to make much difference. If you have a hot room in an otherwise comfortable house you can pump existing cool air into that hot room using a special fan installed in the wall or floor. A fan mounted high in a doorway or on the wall in the same room as the stove will blow hot air to where. Moving or circulating the trapped ceiling heat may be a viable option.

Floor grills are the traditional way to move heat from a lower floor to an upper floor. It is about 8 ft tall 4 inch wide and has a 7w fan inside the pipe. A ventilator fan can move existing cool air from one level or room to another through the wall or floor. And as i sit here and write it seems to be working.

First if you also have forced air turn the fan on to help circulate heat. The cost of moving the air would have outweighed any improvement to the overall results and or the air would have cooled down to negate any benefits. If you don t you ll simply feel the chill from the cool breeze they create. The issue of warm air rising has created much confusion among energy professionals and home owners.

Main advantages no extra cooling costs. Your results may differ. In her first year in the house she was often cold on her feet but.