The location of your heat ducts may look like a minor detail. However, you shouldn’t consider it as an afterthought because it can have a significant impact on your heating costs and comfort. So which is the better location for your duct openings between the ceiling and floor? Let’s compare and contrast them.
All You Need to Know About HVAC Ductwork
A brief overview of HVAC ductwork basics helps to understand how these vital components keep your home comfortable and efficient in all seasons. A typical residential HVAC system circulates over 1,000 cubic feet per minute of cooled or heated air. For optimum temperature control, ductwork is designed to distribute a balanced volume of conditioned air […]
Aiming and Redirecting Vents
To handle Dayton’s warm summers and cold, dry winters, an HVAC air duct system must be optimized for performance.
Learn What to Do About Noisy Air Vents
If your home has noisy ducts supplying conditioned air to its rooms, you shouldn’t have to accept that as a fact of life. Usually, there’s one or more reasons for noisy air vents and ducts, causes that can be addressed to quiet things down.
Learn About the Types of Ducts
If you’re like most homeowners, you take your home’s air distribution system for granted. As long as the ductwork is delivering conditioned air where it’s supposed to go, why worry? Yet, the type of ducts installed in your home, as well as the way the network is designed, can have an appreciable effect on energy […]
A Guide to Understanding Return Air Ducts
A person can be forgiven for not knowing much about their home’s air duct system. It plays a vital role in the home’s forced-air heating and cooling system, performing its job quietly and without much attention. The return air ducts in an HVAC system are especially liable to get taken for granted, even though their […]
What Makes Good HVAC Ductwork Design?
Regardless of how efficient and expensive your HVAC system is, it will only be as effective as your air ducts that form your home’s circulatory system. Poorly-designed ducts will downgrade comfort and indoor air quality and increase your energy bills. Here are the basic principles of good ductwork design.
How to Know if Your Ductwork Needs Replacing
High energy bills and comfort problems don’t necessarily mean your furnace or air conditioner are acting up. In fact, these problems are often the side effects of deficiencies in the ductwork system, such as leaks and poor design. Here are some signs that your ducts need attention and the steps to take to replace or […]
Can Ductwork Problems Lead to Poor Indoor Air Quality?
Take a deep breath. How confident are you that your indoor air is clean and safe to inhale? Unless you’re sure that your ductwork is sealed and intact, you and your family could be breathing air pollution on a daily basis. Leaky ducts have been known to lead to poor indoor air quality that can significantly […]
Control the Airflow in Your Attic Ducts with These Helpful Tips
Maintaining a consistent temperature around your home can be challenging. Sunny rooms located on your home’s upper level are often too warm, while north-facing rooms on the ground floor can remain chilly.
