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Where's the fun in that? I don't think that they make them for return sizes anyways. I haven't seen that size anywhere.

Good thought. I will make the damper so that it is variable.

I hadn't gotten as far as using rails as a guide though. That's a good idea.

Thanks, Frodo. I was thinking something like that for the damper. The Do I need to turn up the AC fan speed because I am diverting the air?

Plus it's probably not strong enough to push air through the whole house.

Maybe. The wood furnace is probably 30-35 years old and the electric one is only 8.

He said he has his wood furnace system set up how I want to do it and it really cranks out the heat.

Thanks. I don't own the house. Electric bills last winter were only up to $350/mo. So I'm not looking at alternative energy yet. Although the chimney sweep was talking my ear off about his solar system at his home.

The thermostat measures the temp around the fire box, not the temp in the house.

Well, actually I'm wanting to run the 8" round duct on the right side of the wood furnace to the rectangular return duct at the right side of the photo and then install a damper between where the one round duct comes from the return up top and where I run the heat back into the return. What I'm...

I have a wood furnace that ties into the electric HVAC in my basement. I had the chimney sweep over today and he suggested rerouting the air supply for the wood furnace to make it more efficient. Right now the wood furnace draws air from the return and it gets sucked (hopefully) into the warm...