Wood fans cover two major categories – the fans to improve the air circulation around the fire and therefore heat flow in the room. It comes of wood stoves cover two main types. I don’t plan on speaking here, though I may address it in a future post, about those who feed combustion air to fireboxes.
The air circulation in your house may look like this under typical circumstances. Woodstove fans improve the amount of heat your stove can transmit to the air in your room, as well as how that heat circulates your home, increasing stove heating efficiency. Some houses have built-in ducting to transport air from one area of the house to another; I’m not familiar with these systems because they are not popular in the UK, but I’m told they are in the US.
You may perhaps check that air flows around your home from the heat most heated section of the house, where your wood stove, to its cooler if you are lucky enough to have one of such systems. This forced circulation contributes by extending the electricity from the stove to the farthest corners of your home – this keeps the space from overheating the stove and lowers the need for extra heat in other areas of the house.
If you do not have a system built into your house, you are unlikely to consider installing one; nevertheless, you may discover that assisting the natural circulation of warm air within your home will provide significant benefits. Check now for more information.
To begin, here are a few counterintuitive facts regarding air circulation:
- You don’t need a huge wood stove fan to make a big difference; remember, you’re attempting to improve circulation that already exists.
- When moving warm air from one room to another, the simplest solution is to move cold air into the warmer area. Cold air enters near the bottom, while warm air is forced out towards the top by circulation.
- Woodstove fans don’t have to be near your wood stove to be useful; for example, you might install one in the door between two distant rooms to increase air circulation to the building’s more remote areas.
I’ve spent a lot of time around my house trying with a basic smoke test to identify where convection currents transfer warmth. We have seen a significant change in air temps in rooms distant from the fire in cold weather by installing tiny, handmade fan units between doors.
We constructed the wood stove fans out of scrap wood, an old mobile phone charger, and a cooling fan rescued from a PC, and I have to give credit to my father for this masterpiece! What a low-cost heater!
