Ok Im new at this and I've only had my stove on for about a week, I'm still tweaking (does it ever end) I have forced air heat as well and the thermostat is in the next room from my stove, so when I get to the hallway back its about 15 degrees cooler. Just need some advice to circulate heat to the bedrooms, since the furnace will not run when the the stove is burning. I have tried cycling my blower fan on my furnace but my ducts are in the attic so it doesn't get warm enough to heat the ducts up and move warm air. Any advice would be greatly appreciated my wifes feet are cold, and so are her comments about the stove. Thanks in advance.

Ever try a few box fans?

I have the same problem. The thermostat is in the same room as the corn stove. Furnace never runs with stove going unless it is really cold. A few fans does help push air into the other rooms.

Ive got soom fans running, raised the temp a couple points, but they are noisy and one has to be right next to the TV bummer...

Wheezer wrote:

I have ceiling fans in each room and it helps greatly but I kinda have an semi open configuratin in my home. It is hard to force air in or out of a doorway

When we need a heat boost, I just turn the thermostat up until the furnace kicks on. Can you shut down registers in rooms you do not need heat and turn the t-stat up. Just a suggestion.

Moving hot air is like herding birds.
If you don't make direct route for the hot air (the birds) to follow, it will go wherever it (they) can.

If you can move cool air directly from the too cold area to your stove, the warm air from your stove will wander back to where you pumped the cool air out.
Do I use this method? No. 2 fans get the job done for me.
Drafts?
Your appliance will make a dandy draft on your wifey's feet.
Do you have outside combustion air supplying your burner?
All that heat that you are paying for is blown outside.
Works against your quest to move heat too.
HF

Ok the first way I tried the fans is blowing the cold air into the room with the burner that made the most sense to me, because the cold air would be closer to the floor where the fans are, then the warmer air would move along the ceilng and back to where the negative pressure is created. BUT after little or no change I did some investigating to find that all my outside wall power outlets where pouring in cold air as well as some places along my baseboard. So I guess its too drafty, plus there is a header in the main opening where the heat leaves that room which may interrupt the flow along the ceiling. Right now Im within 10 degrees with the fans blowing the heat back, but its is 38 out so pretty warm right now, low tonight is 15 so we'll see how it works. BTW I'm not using an OAK if that makes a difference.

what type of appliance do you have? free standing? add on furnace type?

If you are using inside air for combustion it is sucking air in your baseboards and outlets