In the upper stories of the house the return air duct openings on each floor should be approximately equal to the sum of the hot air outlets.
Should beasement cold air return be on the floor.
Adding cold air return in basement adding heat air to a basement do i want returns.
Is there a way to get this cold air into the rest of the house and minimize use of the air conditioning.
Unlike supply vents return vents do not need to be cased in metal.
Best location of cold air return in finished basement can a cold air return in the basement be in the ceiling.
The single giant return air grill in the floor balances the load at the furnace motor but does nothing to promote cross ventilation in each room.
It s much better to put a return air duct in each room.
Here s an example of a giant return air grill near the floor.
We have run the.
The problem is that in the summer the basement is cold the main floor is comfortable and the upstairs is hot.
So turn the cold air return 90 degrees through the wall so that it actually draws the air from the room next to the furnace room or from the hallway of the basement.
We live in a cape cod style house that was built in the early 1960 s.
Q we have a two story house and in the summer the basement is cold.
They can be placed into staircase cavities stacked closets that run one on top of the other or in stud cavities in the wall.
A friend who used to install furnaces told me to cut a return in the cold air return to the furnace near the floor.
We have a 1 440 square foot basement under a full two storey home heated with a high efficiency gas furnace.
We have four warm air outlets in the basement with no cold air returns.
The return vent pulls cold air from the bottom of the room and returns it to the furnace to be reheated and returned as warm air.
All that the cold air return will be doing is it will be pulling the warm air out of the room and sending it back to the furnace.
The basement one should be on the floor not the ceiling of the basement.
In the basement to avoid chimney backdrafting the return air duct should be only half as large as the sum of the hot air ducts.
Q a cold air return heating design new construction text.
Basement cold air return placement basement return damper basements should not have air conditioning register vent no it should.