![]() For our application, I doubt if a convection stove would improve the heat distribution at all. ![]() We found out after we bought the house that the builder was a coal stove fanatic, so he obviously designed with heat distribution in mind. Even when we're cranking the stove, there's no more than a 10 degree difference between sitting in the family room with the stove and sitting in the dining room at the opposite end of the first floor. So, the heat just naturally rises and runs down the upstairs hall to all the bedrooms. The ceiling rises to a peak at the opposite wall, where there's an opening (a balcony of sorts) to the second floor hallway. The stove hearth is in a room with a vaulted ceiling so the heat has plenty of room to rise away from the stove. We are fortunate that the house we bought has a great heat moving design, even though we were not thinking about that when we bought it. In fact, there are disadvantages, as the off-season dust does tend to collect in the convection space and is hard to clean out, and the fans that folks tend to use with convection designs do make at least some noise and require electricity to work. If you can deal with the clearance requirements, and have a good house layout to allow the air to move around, I don't see any advantage of a convection stove. The second is when the stove is going to be installed at the far end of a room that just isn't designed to help the movement of hot air out and cooler air in, but is not so bad in this regard that the convection feature would be ineffective anyway. First is when you require very tight clearances for installation, as the convection air gaps between the stove's "layers" can greatly reduce clearance requiremetns. To me, the only real advantages of a "convection" stove would come in two cases only. That warmer air rises and goes wherever it can, depending on your layout. "Radiant" stoves also heat all the air that's in the line of sight directly, too. (Touch the stove and you will get some conduction in there too )Ĭlick to expand.Indeed. So there really isn't a purely radiant or convection stove - you will end up having the heat move about in more than one way. ![]() Certainly the amount of this will be a function of your particular install and configuration. So during 24/7 heating season I have to vacuum this area on a regular basis or they become noticeable. Down side of course is that cold air is moving along the floor (hardwood in my case) toward the stove - this brings the dust bunnies. I have actually hung bits of paper from the ceiling and seen them flutter as well as measured the temperature of said surfaces (350* stove gets these surfaces up to around 90* enough for good air movement). In particular the walls and ceiling around the stove warm up and get a good solid convection loop running. Once all these things warm up, they warm up the air touching them and the air begins to rise and move on. This means the walls, floor (less so) and ceiling get warmed up as well as furniture, people (lucky ones who get to nap in front of the stove). Why? Well - as Franks points out, the stove heats objects in their line of sight. What I have found with both of my stoves (considered radiant models) is that I get significant convective heating along with the radiant.
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