This is a cool idea. A long long time ago about 2 hour away I found my self living on an Aumsh farm in a modern house that had been striped of its furnace electric and any other modern things. It was going to be a place for the grandma a single story with a basement but she died before it was finished and so it was offered to me as i was working with them buying training and selling horses. To start with all i had was the wood coal cook stove but it did not take long to figure out being this was Ontario Canada with one of the furthest north family's i was going to need something more. I got a nice big wood stove put it in the centre of the basement right below what had been the main return air vent so the hot air could rise I then could use what would have been the hot air vents around the outside walls of the house to direct how much warm air would be drawn into each room by how much now cold air was falling down back to the basement. it worked so well i have repeated it in other places I have lived
We bought a house that came with a very nice wood stove in the baesement. We ran it last winter, a lot, and it helped but not nearly at the level I want it to be at. This video is great. I love the concept and plan to do something similar. Much thanks for putting this out there!
I did that same thing with my first woodstove in my basement. I used an old oven shroud to suck the heat upstairs. I've since done one better by completely enclosing my wood stove with sheet metal and a larger blower on the bottom and blow ALL the heat upstairs, and it heats very well (too well, we open the windows sometimes even with temps below zero!)
I love in the interior of Alaska in a 2,200 sq.ft. 8-inch log home. My primary source of heat is wood. I have two Blaze King stoves, the King and a Princess insert. My goal is to heat my entire house with only the King using prescribed methods including the woodstove hood. Thank you for your posting and website.
Im working on my wood stove hood. Its a little different then yours but the same principle. My grandfather had the entire stove in closed in a sheet metal shroud and piped off to every room on the first floor. The old house had a laundry shoot to the second floor. He had a pipe up that too. Boy did the house get warm fast. Im hoping to replicate that. You have a great video.
So in other words your grandad turned the stove into a homemade octopus furnace. It's amazing that the so called old, outdated, inefficient way of heating is actually the best.
I have a blower fan mounted to the ceiling above my blaze king pulling heat upstairs. I'm getting around 110-degrees and around 86-90 degrees out of the vent. I will try the hood method which seems to intake warmer air near the stove. I think having a basement wood stove is great but the homeowner needs a balanced HVAC system to efficiently move warm air evenly throughout the building envelope.
With your woodstove burning and your inline fan on, what is the temperature coming out of your vent upstairs and what is your temp as the the warm air is entering the hood?
I have forced hot air heat. If the system is not running, thereby drawing room air to send back to the furnace, what lets in the warm air from the stove shroud. With no air leaving the living area (without air handler running), how does more get into the living area? Passive convection will let some in, is it enough?
MrRickep1 the way several people in my family have done it is to route the cold air return to a shroud around the stove then to existing furnace... use that furnace fan and ducts to send warm air to living area and it works great
I have been thinking of doing something similar - but have read that if you have a fan pulling the air upstairs, it can create a backdraft downstairs with your stove? we have our mudroom door open at the top of the basement stairs, and then 7+ rooms in the house all have floor vents to "let the heat rise" but it's not rising like we are hoping. How do you address the backdraft issue, or is it even an issue?
One thing someone mentioned to me about shopping something similar, is the possibility of a spark or two being sucked into your venting and starting a fire in the house
How? Since the flue pipe is separate from this hood. He is not pulling the heat from the inside of his stove pipe. But rather from the top surface of his stove.
+Jacky Lord I had the same question.....i guess he hasnt been on in a while...A few minutes ago i finished hooking up a small computer fan to my living room vent in hopes of getting at least some heat up there. not very helpful.
Heat will always find its way upstairs but you are but I think the second law of thermodynamics, heat will always move to something colder than it. which in this case is like everything in your basement so your idea seems sound.
Thank you, Les. This video will help my family stay warm this winter. We appreciate you.
This is a cool idea. A long long time ago about 2 hour away I found my self living on an Aumsh farm in a modern house that had been striped of its furnace electric and any other modern things. It was going to be a place for the grandma a single story with a basement but she died before it was finished and so it was offered to me as i was working with them buying training and selling horses. To start with all i had was the wood coal cook stove but it did not take long to figure out being this was Ontario Canada with one of the furthest north family's i was going to need something more. I got a nice big wood stove put it in the centre of the basement right below what had been the main return air vent so the hot air could rise I then could use what would have been the hot air vents around the outside walls of the house to direct how much warm air would be drawn into each room by how much now cold air was falling down back to the basement. it worked so well i have repeated it in other places I have lived
Wow, this is great! I've got too much heat in the basement. Thank you for posting this. Cheers.
We bought a house that came with a very nice wood stove in the baesement. We ran it last winter, a lot, and it helped but not nearly at the level I want it to be at. This video is great. I love the concept and plan to do something similar. Much thanks for putting this out there!
Very nice, thanks for taking the time to share with others.
I did that same thing with my first woodstove in my basement. I used an old oven shroud to suck the heat upstairs. I've since done one better by completely enclosing my wood stove with sheet metal and a larger blower on the bottom and blow ALL the heat upstairs, and it heats very well (too well, we open the windows sometimes even with temps below zero!)
Good deal, your a man after my heart when it comes to saving energy cost.
How did you enclose it with sheet metal? Build a box?
An excellent job.
Well thought out.
I love in the interior of Alaska in a 2,200 sq.ft. 8-inch log home. My primary source of heat is wood. I have two Blaze King stoves, the King and a Princess insert. My goal is to heat my entire house with only the King using prescribed methods including the woodstove hood. Thank you for your posting and website.
A peak, 120 to 125 degrees at the hood entrance. The outlet (seven feet away) 90 to 100 degrees.
Great idea!!
Im working on my wood stove hood. Its a little different then yours but the same principle. My grandfather had the entire stove in closed in a sheet metal shroud and piped off to every room on the first floor. The old house had a laundry shoot to the second floor. He had a pipe up that too. Boy did the house get warm fast. Im hoping to replicate that. You have a great video.
So in other words your grandad turned the stove into a homemade octopus furnace. It's amazing that the so called old, outdated, inefficient way of heating is actually the best.
@@thevintagerecipeblog with a modern wood stove the old ways of moving it are even more bette than ever.
Where do I find the instructions of how to build the hood with inline fan ? We would love to do this with our new pellet stove. Thanks
do you run single pipe or double in the basement?
I have a blower fan mounted to the ceiling above my blaze king pulling heat upstairs. I'm getting around 110-degrees and around 86-90 degrees out of the vent. I will try the hood method which seems to intake warmer air near the stove. I think having a basement wood stove is great but the homeowner needs a balanced HVAC system to efficiently move warm air evenly throughout the building envelope.
Could you use a hood to direct heat in a cold air return in existing HVAC system. Then use the furnace fan to circulate through the house?
My father did this in 1978 in his workshop :-)
With your woodstove burning and your inline fan on, what is the temperature coming out of your vent upstairs and what is your temp as the the warm air is entering the hood?
Good stuff. I got to do the same thing. I'm pretty much going to copy you so be flattered. Take care.
Genius!
I capped my 6" stove pipe with 10" and "T"ed off that and used a pipe fan and ran it to the floor upstairs.
I have forced hot air heat. If the system is not running, thereby drawing room air to send back to the furnace, what lets in the warm air from the stove shroud. With no air leaving the living area (without air handler running), how does more get into the living area? Passive convection will let some in, is it enough?
MrRickep1 the way several people in my family have done it is to route the cold air return to a shroud around the stove then to existing furnace... use that furnace fan and ducts to send warm air to living area and it works great
Would an old gutted out hood fan from a stove work the same I wonder?
Yes, although it may be a little noisy.
I have been thinking of doing something similar - but have read that if you have a fan pulling the air upstairs, it can create a backdraft downstairs with your stove? we have our mudroom door open at the top of the basement stairs, and then 7+ rooms in the house all have floor vents to "let the heat rise" but it's not rising like we are hoping. How do you address the backdraft issue, or is it even an issue?
Do you have a fresh air duct supplying your wood stove?
One thing someone mentioned to me about shopping something similar, is the possibility of a spark or two being sucked into your venting and starting a fire in the house
How? Since the flue pipe is separate from this hood. He is not pulling the heat from the inside of his stove pipe. But rather from the top surface of his stove.
Any problem getting fire insurance about the hood?
Where about is the fan located to suck and push the air up the pipe ?
+Jacky Lord I had the same question.....i guess he hasnt been on in a while...A few minutes ago i finished hooking up a small computer fan to my living room vent in hopes of getting at least some heat up there. not very helpful.
sweet.
Heat will always find its way upstairs but you are but I think the second law of thermodynamics, heat will always move to something colder than it. which in this case is like everything in your basement so your idea seems sound.
PLEASE TELL US YOU HAVE A CARBON MONOXIDE MONITOR IN YOUR HOME!!! : )
Amen
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Just leave the basement door open man!
I heard very good opinions about the Stodoys plans.
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I've found great handbook on woodprix website. Good solutions for everyone I think
That's bull my dad made a vent graitiy hot air rises don't need that