At Home In The Woods

[RadarTech]

Our house is just the opposite. The master bedroom is the farthest room from the furnace, but if you close the bedroom door it will be 10 degrees hotter than any other room in the house. The one vent in that room blows hard enough that if the bedroom door is open 4-6" it will close the door. Really plays havoc on sleeping at night without making the rest of the house ice cold.

Hmmmmm...
That its weird!

 

[Coyote machine]

Our house is just the opposite. The master bedroom is the farthest room from the furnace, but if you close the bedroom door it will be 10 degrees hotter than any other room in the house. The one vent in that room blows hard enough that if the bedroom door is open 4-6" it will close the door. Really plays havoc on sleeping at night without making the rest of the house ice cold.

Don't know what exact type of heating system you have but let's assume it is a forced hot air system that delivers hot air by using a blower near the combustion chamber. Are there dampers built into the duct work that would allow you to reduce the amount of air that reaches the far bedroom, thus allowing some of the hot air currently delivered to the far end of the house to be delivered more evenly through the remaining duct runs? (If not you could install one or have someone do it for you).
If so this is what I would explore first and foremost.
Sometimes it's about thermostat placement, especially for houses where an addition is added and changes the layout of the system and the demands on it.
I happen to have an older home which uses hydronic baseboard; and then I went from oil to gas, and put in a high efficiency gas boiler with radiant heat throughout much of the existing house on the first floor and throughout the addition. The far bedroom and my office on the first floor got radiant heat installed, so the entire 1st floor would be one zone. But the back rooms continued to be cold- so after a while I discussed with the installers my thoughts on moving the t-stat closer to the bedrooms to get it away from the apex of various doors from the basement, L.Rm, and new hallway created by the addition, as well as the gas fireplace insert we often run in the evening to further supplement the heat in the living room. They agreed to move it and since then we have had far fewer issues with heat in the bedroom and office.

Sometimes it's just a simple solution like in Obed's case with the small 6" duct where there should have been an 8" instead. My experience is that most contractors do not like to admit or acknowledge their mistakes, and that causes a LOT of headaches for the homeowner(s). Right EEpete?!

 

[Obed]

Put that camper and trailer on EBAY. I have had great luck selling stuff on there. Usually get more than I think its worth. Its the right time of the year to move them items. Tax checks and spring weather get people thinking.

Chris

We just posted the camper for sale on Craigslist. Click the link if you want to see the listing. We are asking a dirt cheap price for it as we just want it off the property and want to sell it quickly.

The trim carpenter has mentioned interest in the camper. However, he is real busy with work right now and may not be available anytime soon to work at a swap the camper for labor deal.

This past weekend we washed the camper. Sitting under the trees made the outside pretty dirty and required some scrubbing. This week we've removed the rest of our contents from the camper. My wife has been cleaning the inside this week.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I use a pellet stove to heat my downstairs, and only use the oil furnace for the upstairs. Heat goes up the stairs, and keeps the upstairs thermostat (in the hall) warm enough that the upstairs heat doesn't run as much, and the upstairs rooms stay cooler. Course I know this and like it cooler when I sleep, so It's ok with me, but I really should move the thermostat.

 

[Obed]

Obed, I'm assuming the new HVAC guys agreed that the original size of the duct work going to the babies room was too small since the new larger size apparently corrected the issue.

Stanley,
I don't know that the new guys gave an opinion regarding the size requirement of the duct. We just told them we wanted an 8" duct instead of the existing 6" duct so that's what they did.
Obed

 

[Obed]

I use a pellet stove to heat my downstairs, and only use the oil furnace for the upstairs. Heat goes up the stairs, and keeps the upstairs thermostat (in the hall) warm enough that the upstairs heat doesn't run as much, and the upstairs rooms stay cooler. Course I know this and like it cooler when I sleep, so It's ok with me, but I really should move the thermostat.

Our thermostat is at the end of the hallway near the LR. The thermostat is near the main HVAC return which seems to help keep the temp at the thermostat similar to the temps in the other rooms. We also have a smaller HVAC return grill at the other end of the hallway near the bedrooms and an HVAC return grill in the master BR ceiling.

I was somewhat surprised at how well the heat from our fireplace circulated around the house. The FP is somewhat centered in the house. There is also a heat zone from the fireplace to the other end of the hallway. Something else we've done that helps is we started running the ceiling fan in the LV in reverse mode. We had noticed the temps near the ceiling in the LV and kitchen were noticeably warm while burning the FP. Running the ceiling fan helped to move that warm air around the room. Running the ceiling fan to blow air upward prevented feeling a "draft" and helped the house feel warmer.

If we can just get the fireplace to burn hot with the glass doors shut, I'll be very happy. I haven't yet heard from the FP store 90 minutes away to see if I can go look at their customer's fireplace.

Obed

 

[scoutcub]

I'm no expert on camper prices, but that seems VERY reasonably priced, and should sell quickly!

 

[Obed]

We sold the camper today! Several people were very interested. Today was kind of a mad house.The price was cheap and the pictures looked good compared to other campers of the same age. I had people calling from out of state wanting to travel to see it. We've gotten our use out of it and didn't want to take forever to sell it so we priced it low. The new owners are going to have to come back to get the camper. I asked them to move it off the property within a week and they agreed. I hope that happens. The buyers are building a house and want to live on their property while they finish the house. Sounds familiar, huh.

Now we just need to sell the storage trailer. We'll be glad to get the two trailers out of our way.

 

[dcyrilc]

The buyers are building a house and want to live on their property while they finish the house. Sounds familiar, huh.

Now who do we know that's done that recently? I just can't seem to put my finger on who it might be.:laughing:

 

[dcyrilc]

Speaking of things...

How's it going with furnishing the house? We had a small fire on the 23rd of last month and have to replace our leather sectional (replacement value insurance). Man, I forgot how much I hate furniture shopping.