How can I spread the warm air from master bedroom throughout house?
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Patti
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I just bought a new home. The master bedroom runs 5 degrees warmer than the main part of the house. It is the first room to receive the heat (baseboard hot water). Is there any way to "blow" the warmer air down 12 foot hallway to the main living space? There is a small office and a bathroom off the hallway. I would like some type of "fan" mounted from the ceiling. There is no attic or crawl space above for any kind of ducts.
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Go back to your builder and see what they can do for you. Is it a flat roof?
Hi Patti! Have you considered a ceiling fan?
Ceiling fan should do the job.
From a post on others with same problem:
Chances are there's either a manifold near the boiler to tune the circuits, or valves on each baseboard unit. Did you look things over at all? –
No it is one continuous pipe / loop. This house was built in 1950 –
Do the relative sizes of the baseboard units seem to match the room sizes (taking windows into consideration)? –
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Also, are you sure they're radiant units? Some are actually convection units and have air dampers for tuning. A photo would be fantastic. –
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thank you for your help. My husband finally called our furnace guy. He worked on it recently, apparently he left one of the values partially close. Now we are getting heat again.
We have had three different maintenance people. Two from the oil company. They both said it was a continuous loop. No valves to adjust. The burner is running perfectly and I replaced the chimney so the draft was at the correct differential. The main living space has fairly new windows, they are shrink wrapped. The north side windows have custom double cellular blinds.
The ceiling fan in the bedroom is handling that room only. Can you put one in the hallway? That would push the air out of the hall, pull the air out of the rooms, possibly down the hall.
Rereading your question and the added information you provided. Is this a single level home or a two level home? Pondering on your situation and thinking about more. With hot water/steam heat, whether baseboard or radiators, usually the main living area gets heat first and bedrooms last. That is the way my crew and I have always installed hot water/steam systems. Since it's a closed loop system have you talked to a heating contractor about reversing the piping so the main living quarters get heat first and bedrooms last.
maybe install a ceiling fan.. I would also go back to the builder, sine its a new home, they can rebalance the vents/fournace.
I'm in Illinois so don't any in NY. You can check Homeadvisor, Angie's List. Get references, check BBB.
Call the area heat provider. Oftentimes they provide a FREE service to homeowners regarding heat loss and other issues.
Does each room vent have adjustments on it? You may need to have each readjusted to balance the heat to each room. I suspect the prior owners put on vent to "off" so as to raise the heat into the MBR.