Here's my quandry.
Natural gas furnace. Just don't like paying the utility bill, so I installed an insert in the fireplace a few years ago that is rated for a house 500 sq. ft. larger than this one.
Fireplace is on the East side of the house in the living room. To get to the bedroom and the bathrooms, you have to walk though the kitchen, and a short hallway to the West side of the house. The ceiling isn't flat thru the house, the house is 100+ years old and it's been added onto many times. Each time, it seems they cut thru a wall, but didn't cut thru all the way to the ceiling, so there is a 12" drop down stub wall from the ceiling.
Today with a 20-25 mph wind from the West, and -14°F ambient temps, while the living/dining room was in the low 80's, the bathroom and bedroom was 47°F. Since the central furnace duct work runs thru an unheated crawlspace, and the duct work is uninsulated single wall galvanized, running the furnace on "fan only" just increased the temp in the other rooms by a couple degrees. (the floor of the whole house is not insulated either.) This year I'm having a whole house energy effeciency test done, and the crew will spray foam insulation and insulate any other areas to minimize air infiltration. Windows are 4 years old double pane, I blew 22" of insulation in the attic, drilled in the outside walls and blew in what I could before I re-sheathed the outisde of the house with 1/2" OSB, caulked the seams, then Tyvek wrapped the house before I re-sided it.
Anybody have any ideas how to distribute the warm air more equally in the house? What I ended up doing was setting the natural gas central forced air furnace 2 degrees warmer than the living room and turned it on. The T-stat is in the living room opposite the insert.
Natural gas furnace. Just don't like paying the utility bill, so I installed an insert in the fireplace a few years ago that is rated for a house 500 sq. ft. larger than this one.
Fireplace is on the East side of the house in the living room. To get to the bedroom and the bathrooms, you have to walk though the kitchen, and a short hallway to the West side of the house. The ceiling isn't flat thru the house, the house is 100+ years old and it's been added onto many times. Each time, it seems they cut thru a wall, but didn't cut thru all the way to the ceiling, so there is a 12" drop down stub wall from the ceiling.
Today with a 20-25 mph wind from the West, and -14°F ambient temps, while the living/dining room was in the low 80's, the bathroom and bedroom was 47°F. Since the central furnace duct work runs thru an unheated crawlspace, and the duct work is uninsulated single wall galvanized, running the furnace on "fan only" just increased the temp in the other rooms by a couple degrees. (the floor of the whole house is not insulated either.) This year I'm having a whole house energy effeciency test done, and the crew will spray foam insulation and insulate any other areas to minimize air infiltration. Windows are 4 years old double pane, I blew 22" of insulation in the attic, drilled in the outside walls and blew in what I could before I re-sheathed the outisde of the house with 1/2" OSB, caulked the seams, then Tyvek wrapped the house before I re-sided it.
Anybody have any ideas how to distribute the warm air more equally in the house? What I ended up doing was setting the natural gas central forced air furnace 2 degrees warmer than the living room and turned it on. The T-stat is in the living room opposite the insert.