I have a similar situation in that my den was blazing 92-99 degrees with the Lopi cod running...to the point that we moved tv & stuff into formal living room . I have a center hall colonial. The only way into the den was from the kitchen, that had a standard door opening, that the previous owner modified to a open butcher blocked pass thru..... I ran a small tornado fan on the butcher block blowing into the room to get the warmer air out to the rest of the house...this worked ok, but the 2nd floor and formal living room was still lagging in getting warm fast enough.....so be it that I am a remodeling contractor & we had plans to open up some walls .... Christmas Day & New Year's Day I took out the wall to the dining room adjacent to the den, removed the parallel wall from dining room to the center hallway & staircase to upstairs, took out butcher block wall pass thru & opened load bearing wall between dining room & kitchen... The end result is that I have much better hot air flow.... I average high 70's to mid 80's in all areas of my house now!!! My plumbers were here yesterday relocating some plumbing that was in the walls I took out & they were complaining how hot it was in the house.......no complaints though when I made them pizza on my pizza brick ...... This am when got down stairs the blower to the cod had shut off already.... Had a nice bed of coals in the cod, I added 1 24" split of oak, had it roaring in about 3-5 minutes & the blower was back on in another 10-15 mins. The temperature in all three heat zones was 67.. Last night at 10 pm they were reading 89 in room with stove, 77 in formal living room & 82 at top of stairs hallway....
Note: I know all the discussions about moisture content. My oak that was CSS last Oct -Dec I'm burning now is between 16-20% moisture!!!! I made all my splits roughly dura flame log size around in 16-24" lengths..( I did this fir 2 reasons to help dry it out faster & so it would be more manageable for my wife) . Travis industries supplied a nice moisture meter with the purchase of the stove! Wood I had to buy week prior to Sandy I burned last Dec thru the spring was wetter then what I have now..... My 1st SS chimney sweeping only was done in late march / early April I collected only 1-2 cups of creosote ash/ dust on a newspaper lining the stove bottom, did that so I could accurately collect it and measure it out..
I lost 6 trees from Sandy ..... Took down 13 more last Dec 5th... All but 2 were all oak !!!! I've got another 10-12 oaks to come down still .... I CSS all the oak in the spring,,, I have 2 rows 4 x 20' x 5-6' high stacks and 3 holze hausezens that are between 9 & 11' in diameter and are 6-8' high . I live on a ridge that gets windy ..... I top cover only and everything is drying out wonderfully...sorry for the lengthy off thread post ...