Furnace is dead

[jfkbengals]

(01-09-2016, 04:51 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: The fireplace also doesn't circulate heat through the house, just through the main room it's in. I fixed the furnace, unfortunately, lol.

It can if you have a good blower and ceiling fans.

If you don't know what it is, it is basically a log cradle made of hollow metal pipes that are tied to a fan system that sits outside the fireplace.  The fan will pull cold air from ground level into the system and through the pipes of the cradle, which are now hot from the fire.  The cradle heats that cold air and then the fan blows it out into the room.

Ceiling fans set to the winter setting (low speed and clockwise) will push the hot air at the ceiling out to and down the walls, and thus through entryways into adjoining rooms.  Ceiling fans in those rooms will do the same to the next room.

My dad was a cheapskate who hated to use the heat in the house, so the whole house was heated that way.  I've gotta admit, it worked pretty well.