Painting inside a fireplace

james · 19 March 2018 16:52

Ours works a treat

Stove top fans, why you need one! Property & Home

[image] We have a wood burning stove in our house and it provides the only source of heat for the 200 square meter space. It’s a good one, it’s heavy and burns well and it can stay in overnight. We do not, however, have any means of circulating the heat it generates; it simply rises and disperses mainly to the upper floors meaning that the bedrooms up there are generally warmer than the living spaces below, i.e. the wrong way around. I did temporarily install a fan within the chimney enclosure which enabled me to transfer some of the heat to another room. This is the basis of a popular method of heat transference. It worked well although it was a bit noisy. So when I heard about stove fans (via an earlier post on SFN) I was intrigued. Stove fans sit on top of your wood burner and are powered by a small thermoelectric generator, this requires no mains power or battery; they are completely autonomous and even vary their speed according to the the heat produced by your stove. …