Can;t move heat North

[Deleted User]

Don't know who told you that, but I can move water, and connected heat in any direction I need to in a 360 degree by 360 degree direction. SOunds like an old wives tail if you aks me...

ME

Paul Reinbold

Rule of thumb

There is an Old Saying that you "Can't Move Heat North." Could someone tell me why -Using physics terms? I live in Maine. My chimney is on the north side of my house, there is only one window on the north side, and the furnace is directly under the chimney location in the cellar.

brucewo1b

Because up here in Maine the prevailing wind is from the Norh west and then again the sun shines from the south, so if you lived in a drafty house in the last centrury or two you would find it hard to move heat in your home to the north side of the building with a wood stove. So there for many houses were built with fewer windows on the north to help keep out the draft and more on the south for radiant heat of the sun.

Steamhead (in transit)

It was primarily a factor

with old gravity scorched-air systems. Sometimes the wind would actually stop the circulation to rooms facing the wind. This is one reason many of these systems were replaced by steam or hot-water. All you had to do was put a slightly bigger radiator in those rooms to compensate for the wind.

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