Timeline for Heating mystery following replacement windows
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 18:44 | comment | added | StackOverthrow | @Sneftel Some convection could occur in the stairway connecting the floors. More convection would occur if the warm air on the first floor were displaced by cold air entering through drafty first floor windows, and only needed to rise through the stairway (instead of traveling both directions) and escape through drafty second floor windows. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 13:11 | comment | added | Sneftel | How would a draft make the first-floor hot air want to rise more? There's already cool air upstairs, otherwise the OP wouldn't have the problem in the first place. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 12:33 | comment | added | JACK | @Sneftel Yes, but the intake drafts will accelerate it. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 9:52 | comment | added | Sneftel | Hot air rising does not require "drafts". The cooler air replacing it can be found upstairs, and those two masses switching place is the motion. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 0:05 | history | edited | JACK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2019 at 23:17 | history | answered | JACK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |