Ok, Here goes....
I have a wood stove as a primary source of heat( affordable heat, that is) and it is in our basement (Single story home with finished daylight basement). The only route the warm air can take to get upstairs is, the stairway. Aside from opening windows, there is no way for the cooler air ustairs to move and so it seems that the warm air in the basement is fighting to get by the cooler air upstairs, and the cooler air is just resting on the warmer air below. An inversion of sorts. (i'm waiting for a tornado to form in my stairway)
Would putting a cold air return in a corner or two of the home solve this issue? If so, how many might i need? And am I correct in assuming that a cold air return has to go from the floor upstairs(like a vent in the floor)to the floor downstairs(ducted to a vent near the floor)? Will this get the air moving?
Am I crazy?
Hayduke