Not big on that subject, but what i found in my case was that If I turned on the central A/C fan to move air, it cool's it down which is not what i want to do. So think of the longer you move the air, or faster so move it, it will cool. How about a slow running stand fan from the edge of the room? Good luck, your on the right site though.

Assuming you don't have a cathedral ceiling it shouldn't be difficult to move some air around. Lots of people leave their HVAC fans on to circulate the air through the house but there's also a school of thought that people should move the cold air on the floor out of the room so that the warm air will come down off of the ceiling or install a ceiling fan that will suck the cold air off of the floor to be replaced with warm air from the ceiling.

Experiment some. Put a thermometer in the room with the stove and one in the adjacent room. Run a fire and record the change in temperature over the next few hours. Now put the fan on the ground and see what happens. Next day, do the same with the HVAC fan on. It's not instant gratification, but you should get a really good insight into how air flows in your house.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to poke holes in the ceiling to run ducts to other rooms since this may give too much heat away. The other thing that might happen is that the blower may take away some much needed combustion air. Does your insert utilize outside combustion air?

quad, The insert uses room air. Temp readings in room are 90 at ceiling 65 at floor after two hours of a hot fire The room is center of house, the outter most rooms get as warm as 70 on some days. The problem is going from 90 degree room to 65-70, it seems cool. I was trying to make house more even temp. I have temp propes all over house. Wife thinks I am nuts.

thanks

I was thinking of doing the temperature probes too... I'm sure my wife gave me the same look as yours did. What equipment did you end up using?

I would be careful about sucking air out of the room and possibly having it leave the house somewhere else. The other problem with taking heat from the ceiling and depositing it into another rooms ceiling is that I don't think it would be very efficient. If you could figure out a way to get the heat from the ceiling in that room to the floor in the other rooms... now that would be a good trick. Honestly, I would just try to use the HVAC to return some of that hot air to the rest of the house. Maybe get another return air duct setup close to the ceiling of the room your stove is in. It may cool that room some, but isn't that what you want? At some point the house would reach a temp equilibrium. (professional air movers.. speak up here)

Prior to doing anything to force evacuate air from the room with the stove I would do something like a passive vent to allow makeup air back into the room, or you could crack a window. If you like how well your stove burns though, make sure you don't starve it.

I use a door way fan similar to this ,,,
http://www.americanchimneysweeps.com/super_quiet_doorway_fan.htm
I have a 85' ranch and with the room temps being near 90* at one end where the stove is located the other end is 75*. I think a larger fan , say 10" would even out those temps more