I'm thinking, too, I could totally unblock the door overnight, since the oil burner has to take up the slack of the tiny stove's short burn time anyway to keep things downstairs just above intolerable first thing in the morning.Īnyway, I'll just need to see how it's working for a few days and then try some experimenting. If I'm burrowing down under the covers and going right to sleep, I don't even need or want that. If it's just a bit too cold when I go to bed to sit up and read, I put on a small space heater for about 5 minutes, and that's pretty much all it takes. If it only gets, say, 5 or 6 degrees colder up there, that's no problem at all and I'll keep the whole doorway blocked off. I'll have to see how the upstairs goes for a few days. So now with two front doors to the building, one of his apartments is. So you just blocked off the upper 18 inches and left the rest open? It may just be the vagaries of the "mixed hardwood" selection, but the stove also went right up to about 450, where it quits at 400 most of the time, so I'm thinking the colder air running down the stairs and almost directly into the stove might be worth continuing to block. He solved the problem by simply installing a second front door, adjacent to the first but on the other side of the border. My 2nd floor is unheated in any case, and my bedroom, which is directly over the stove, is actually less cold with the woodstove than it was using the boiler, so some heat is certainly coming up through the ceiling.Īnyway, I'm thinking it makes little sense to be wasting heat on the stairway and having that cold draft coming right at the stove. So I don't think the warm air that comes up the stairway reaches my bedroom much, so all I'm heating right now is the stairs and part of the hallway. It's a small house, and I keep the two small spare bedrooms closed in winter, so there's a single steep flight of stairs straight up, then a small hallway that immediately doubles back towards the front of the house, and my bedroom is off the far end of that. The doorway is 7 feet top to bottom, and the blanket won't cover the whole thing but will leave about a one-foot gap top or bottom.īefore I struggle to put this thing up, does it make more sense to leave the uncovered gap at the top to minimize cold air coming down, or at the bottom to minimize warm air going upstairs? There's no actual door on it now, though there clearly used to be, so I'm thinking of hanging one of the big tough movers' blankets left behind by my movers a few years ago. My old house has the doorway to the stairs to the 2nd floor smack in the middle of the interior wall of the front room that goes across the entire front of the house, and I want to try closing it off and see how that affects heat on both floors.
Do you lose more heat going up an open stairway from the stove room, or is the problem primarily the cold air coming down?
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