Circulate Air Between Floors

Keep the forced air system thermostat fan on instead of auto position to help circulate the air during the hottest and coldest periods of time.

Circulate air between floors.

Within a few minutes the temperature should equalize between the floors there s another more advanced and much more expansive way of improving air ventilation and air circulation in homes especially multi story buildings. There are 2 hvac systems both sitting in the basement. This is by using supplemental mechanical balanced heat recovery ventilation systems. I don t see a lot of air mixing between floors in my partly finished house.

And also keep them running at their lowest speed. The larger 100kbtu system is zoned for the 1st and 2nd floor. A ventilator fan can blow conditioned air up or down depending on the position of the blower unit. In the summer the cool air sinks to the basement and the heat must run to keep it at 69f.

The level to level ventilator fan shown moves existing cool air from one level from the basement or a mini split system for example to another level of the house through an adjustable sleeve installed through the floor ceiling. By installing pass through air grilles in bedroom doors or jumper ducts in the ceiling between rooms to convey supply airflow back to the central return duct neutral air balance in each room is. The smaller 40kbtu system is zoned for a large south west facing 1st floor office with many widows and the basement. If you don t you ll simply feel the chill from the cool breeze they create.

We had a hot day here yesterday 34c 93f and by sunset the first floor was 22c 72f while the upstairs was around 24 5c 76f. Very basic plan is to use some rigid ducting to reach from the ceiling of the 1st floor to the ceiling of the 2nd floor in the same room as the stove. First if you also have forced air turn the fan on to help circulate heat. Make sure your ceiling fans rotate clockwise so they pull cool air up off the floor and push warm air down.

An inline booster fan would push or pull air depending on the season. Have a professional contractor install a cold air return gadget in your basement.