Has anyone diy'd a method of sending the log burners heat upstairs? My burner heats downstairs fast and some heat does make its way up the stairs. I was thinking of fitted a floor regulator somewhere anyone done similar ?
I have a very effective gas fire which uses two cetrifugal fans to draw ambient air from the lounge over the fire box and then through one 150 mm pipe pumps it back into the lounge and the other into the dressing room and bedroom above. You could do somethig similar - have an inlet near te fire and outlet on te landing with an approriate fan - and CO alarms.
Have to be really careful with this because if you install a fan or fans to pump the air the fans will create a vacuum however small in the room with the woodburner and there is a real risk of smoke/fumes being drawn back into the room from the burner chimney. I've thought about this for our woodburner and as hot air rises naturally think I'll install a discreet vent in the ceiling and effectively pipe the air through the joist void to the room above. Downsides are dust and noise in both directions but it will be interesting to see how much warm air reaches the room above.
True, and why I mentioned CO alarms. It works well in MY sitiution and though it would give the OP something to think around.
Air conditioning installed in house would put the heat throughout. Ideally we would need a house designed around a wood burner, with it centred in the home and no ceiling above that open area.
In our last house, a 3 bed detached built in 1939, we had a Little Wenlock in the dining room. With the dining room door open the heat found its own way upstairs.
Heat recovery units can move heat around, however in the houses I have lived in, more down to taking heat from upper floors and moving it back down.
What about the old fashioned, but proven method of passing the stove pipe through to the upstairs and splitting it into two or three vertical runs before joining it again for it's final exit. My mate has that set up, it's a very old way to get greater heat output from a stove.