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I did not learn a bit of good from this..I would of walked out in the end and went home to tell the wife what I seen

When I saw that case and the guy in the Elmer-Fudd-costume and the mysterious setup with pipes and the probably gas-filled chain saw in the background I thought it is a joke. You just can't beat the efficiency of a woodstove fueled with dynamite. But obviously the guy means it seriously.

that's what I do - I just have a fan on low on the floor angled at the stove and the pipe - seems to work well enough.

Anyone remember Floyd R Turbo character played by Johnny Carson? This guy is him.

I put a dryer flex hose directly on top of my stove with an in-line fan in the hose to pump heat to a vent in the floor above.

I've wondered if anyone has built a house that had a wood stove on the first floor with a large open floor vent above it to the second floor.

I've seen old houses here with big floor vents for that very reason. The old stone house grew up in had no heat in my bedroom above the kitchen other than a vent.

Like the stairway?......

In my past house we initially had our stove completely encased in sheet metal with a tapering duct that ran to a 12X12 floor vent[from basement to 1st floor]. The only part of the stove you saw was the door.
It worked well.

Later we diverted the duct to the air handler on the HP, added a washable filter, put a thermostat in about 2' above the stove[inside duct] that turned the fan to HP on when the set temp was reached.

Worked like a champ and distributed hot air fairly evenly to both floors above. During power outages I could pull a panel and revert back to the 12X12 floor vent

I am slowly coming to the opinion that a good many You tube vids are produced to make a few bucks rather than to inform or educate. This vid has done nothing to change my opinion, such as it is.

no I meant directly over the stove so heat rises straight into the second floor


I've also wondered if anyone ever coiled copper tubing around a stove or built a radiator type setup above a stove to warm water.

I watched a video this weekend of a guy that built a soaking tub out of cedar and had a portable propane water heater circulating to keep it warm.

I'm a big fan of homespun engineering that doesn't turn into a rube goldberg setup.

Mine was basement to 1st floor at a exterior wall, the 1st floor room had a vaulted ceiling to two loft type bedrooms.[saltbox home].
Our basement temp rarely rose above 70

If I need anything more efficient than our QuadraFire...................which right now has the house up to 74F and the last log is on for the day.....................






I'll build a Russian Stove

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=russian+stove&ia=web

The best setup I have seen is the fellow that had about a 6ft tin funnel shaped heat catcher directly above his woodstove in the basement. He had ducts coming off this "device" heading off to the different rooms of the house, similar to any modern furnace. I have never seen another setup like it.

The old gravity furnaces use a system like that.

I’ve seen a couple 2-story cabins when I lived in Fbx where the ceiling above the wood stove had a framed hole about 3’ x 3’ to allow heated air to rise easily.
A fan at the stairwell helped force the convection.

There also were outdoor hot tubs with a wood stove in it to heat it.

The “Snorkle stove” was invented by a UAF. physics student.
https://snorkel.com/hot-tub-info/snorkel-and-scuba-stoves.php

My father was in high school in the 1930s when he had a job installing electric hot water tanks to replace wood stove water pipe coils.
It was part of the New Deal rural electrification money.

His high school history teacher threw him out of his house, as he could not trust a student working on his home.

When we built a super insulated solar home in 1982, my father designed the boiler.

I was always if taught if you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all. Well I cannot say anything good about Quadrafire. Their product, their customer service or their dealers.

I have an adjustable louver grate over the wood stove.