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Designing and Installing New Duct Systems
Efficient and well-designed duct systems distribute air properly throughout your home without leaking to keep all rooms at a comfortable temperature. The system should provide balanced supply and return flow to maintain a neutral pressure within the house.
Since even well-sealed and insulated ducts will leak and lose some heat, many new energy-efficient homes place the duct system within the conditioned space of the home. The simplest way to accomplish this is to hide the ducts in dropped ceilings and in corners of rooms. Ducts can also be located in a sealed and insulated chase extending into the attic or built into raised floors. In both of these latter cases, care must be taken during construction to prevent contractors from using the duct chases for wiring or other utilities.

Ducts located within the conditioned space avoid the energy losses associated with most duct systems.
In either case, actual ducts must be used: chases and floor cavities should not be used as ducts. Regardless of where they are installed, ducts should be well sealed. Although ducts can be configured in a number of ways, the "trunk and branch" and "radial" supply duct configurations are most suitable for ducts located in conditioned spaces.

"Trunk and branch" and "radial" configurations of supply ducts are most suitable for incorporating within the conditioned space of a home.
Air return duct systems can be configured in two ways: each room can have a return duct that sends air back to the heating and cooling equipment, or return grills can be located in central locations on each floor. For the latter case, either grills must be installed to allow air to pass out of closed rooms, or short "jumper ducts" can be installed to connect the vent in one room with the next, allowing air to flow back to the central return grilles. Door undercuts help but is usually not sufficient for return air flow.

A variety of approaches are available to allow supply air to flow back to a central return air grille.
Maintaining and Upgrading Existing Duct Systems
Aside from sealing your ducts, the simplest and most effective means of maintaining your air distribution system is to assure that furniture and other objects are not blocking the air flow through your registers, and to vacuum the registers to remove any dust buildup.
Existing duct systems often suffer from design deficiencies in the return air system, and modifications by the homeowner (or just a tendency to keep doors closed) may contribute to these problems. Any rooms with a lack of sufficient return air flow may benefit from relatively simple upgrades, such as the installation of new return-air grilles, undercutting doors for return air, or installing a jumper duct.
Some rooms may also be hard to heat and cool because of inadequate supply ducts or grilles. If this is the case, you should first examine whether the problem is the room itself: fix any problems with insulation, air in leakage, or inefficient windows first. If the problem persists, you may be able to increase the size of the supply duct or add an additional duct to provide the needed airflow to the room.

 

DUCTWORK INSTALLATION GUIDE

Description:

Introducing a completely current and innovative way to learn the basics of Ductwork and Furnace Installation! Featuring hundreds practical competencies, this “how to” guide has been carefully designed and thoroughly modernized to provide a complete learning system for the fundamentals and applications of core ductwork installation concepts. It combines straightforward theory lessons with useful “hands-on” opportunities for learning about the industries hottest topics, including installation in small and big houses and apartments, installation in basements and attics, rough-ins and finals, safety issues, and more. Enhancements to this edition include an updated tools and materials identification chart, new and improved pictures, revised installation techniques.

Benefits:

  • The flexible format affords users the unique opportunity to learn ductwork installation fundamentals and applications either on an individual basis or in an instructional setting
  • Practical competencies take readers step-by-step through specific installations, repair, and maintenance procedures and provide the hands-on training needed to work in ductwork installation field
  • Theory lessons and practical competencies can be fine-tuned to meet specific training needs of local contractors, associations, or individual technicians

"Ductwork Installation Guide" is written in the Microsoft Word and has 62 chapters in it. All chapters are available separately. 

If you will purchase the “Rough-in” part of the book for $35, you are going to have 301 photos, including tools, materials and installation on the 103 pages.

If you will purchase the “Basement” part of the book for $45, you are going to have 414 photos, representing all stages of installation on the 153 pages.

If you will purchase the “Ductwork Installation Guide” as a whole for $75, you are going to have 715 photos, including tools, materials and installation on the 256 pages.

  • If you are a homeowner who is doing remodeling of his/her house, you will have more than enough information to get the gob done right!
  • If you are an apprentice or en experienced installer you are also going to get everything what you need to become the best in your company.
  • If you are a contractor and you will train your employees in these skills, you will provide them with the tools they need to perform to their best ability.

However, I understand that even to spend $35 is kind of scary thing if you are not completely sure what this money would buy!

Therefore, here is a deal:
You can purchase any chapter you want on the "Chapter-by-Chapter Description of the Contents" page and find out for yourself if you like it or not! The price of almost any chapter is only $1.34, and if you like it, you can purchase the whole book and I will refund your $1.34 back to your PayPal account!
If after you read that first chapter you are still not convinced you can buy as many chapters as you want, and after you eventually have purchased the “Rough-in” or the “Basement” parts of the book or both, I am going to refund all the money you spend before!

However, what if you do not like that chapter you just had purchased on my website, then what?
Then you can inform me what exactly you do not like and I will be more then happy to learn what is in your opinion should be done to improve it. After that, I will refund your money back into your PayPal account!

As you can see, I am trying to make your purchase as smooth and risk free as possible!

Instant Access:

After you have purchased a paid page; PayPal is going to bring you back to my website. In order to see the paid page you have to click on the “Register” button, fill out the form, choose your own Username and Password and click on the “Register” button at the bottom of the form – congratulation, you are on the page you are paid for! 

Important: After you have purchased any Paid page or Download page and PayPal brought you back to my website, the first thing that you should do is to save that page in your Favorites. Then if something went wrong you always can come back to reregister yourself on my website again.

This is on-line version of the book. No CD version is available at this time.

If you want to save any chapter on your computer, just highlight the text of the chapter, click “Copy” and “Paste” it in your Microsoft Word New Document.

Chapters available online:

          ROUGH-IN
1. INTRODUCTION
TOOLS
MATERIALS
2. ARCHITECTONIC FEATURES OF HOUSE
3. HOUSE MARK OUT
4. ROUGH-IN
5. HEAT RUNS
BATH BOX INSTALLATION IN INTERIOR WALL
6. BATH BOX INSTALLATION IN EXTERIOR WALL
7. HIGH WALL HEAT
8. BATH BOX WORKING FOR TWO ROOMS
9. OVAL STACKS INSTALLATION
OVAL STACK IN OUTSIDE WALL
10. BATH BOX SITUATED IN PARALLEL TO OVAL STACK
11. BATH BOX DISPOSE PERPENDICULAR TO OVAL STACK
12. BATH BOX SITUATED RIGHT ABOVE OVAL STACK
13. HOOKING UP TO FLOOR BOX
14. OVAL STACK SITUATED IN INTERIOR WALL
15. OVAL STACK IN WALL BETWEEN TWO JOISTS
16. OVAL STACK IN WALL SITUATED PERPENDICULAR TO JOISTS
17. HOOKING UP OVAL STACK TO TOE KICK 90*
18. UNCOMMON CASES OVAL STACK INSTALLATION
19. COLD AIR RETURN INSTALLATION
20. COLD AIR FRAMES INSTALLATION
21. BLOCKERS INSTALLATION
22. UNCOMMON CASES IN INSTALLATION OF COLD AIR RETURN
23. BATH FAN EXHAUSTS
24. BATH FANS INSTALLATION
25. UNCOMMON CASES OF BATH FAN EXHAUSTS
26. DRYER VENT
27. KITCHEN EXHAUST
28. FRESH AIR CAP INSTALLATION
29. VENTING OF FURNACE
30. THERMOSTAT WIRING
31. FIRESTOP INSULATION
32. TEMPORARY FURNACE SUSPENSION

             BASEMENT
33. BASEMENT
PREPARATION OF WORKPLACE
34. SHEETING (PANNING)
35. VARIANTS INSTALLATION OF SHEETING
FROM COLD AIR RETURN DUCT
36. DOUBLE SHEETING
37. FURNACE NSTALLATION
38. PLENUM INSTALLATION
39. DUCTWORK INSTALLATION
40. COLD AIR RETURN DUCT INSTALLATION
41. SUPPLY DUCTWORK INSTALLATION
42. CALCULATION AND MANUFACTURING OFFSET
AND RISER
43. HEAT RUNS INSTALLATION
44. JUMPER INSTALLATION
45. APPLICATION 8” PIPES AND FITTINGS
46. BASEMENT HEATS
47. FRESH AIR, COMBUSTION AIR
48. MICROWAVE HOOD, JENN AIR, KITCHEN HOOD
49. VENTING
50. CONDENSATE LINE, VENTING AND CONDENSATE
LINE FOR COMFORTMAKER AND AIRE-FLO
51. HUMIDIFIER INSTALLATION
52. REGISTERS AND GRILLS INSTALLATION
53. THERMOSTAT INSTALLATION FINISHING BASEMENT
54. FINISHING BASEMENT
55. INSTALLATION OF HEATING SYSTEM IN BIG HOUSES
56. AIR HANDLER INSTALLATION
57. UNDERGROUND DUCTWORK
58. GARAGE HEATER
59. FURNACE CHANGE OUT
60. CORRECTION OF MISTAKES
61. SAFETY TECHNIQUES
62. UNCOMMON CASES
CONCLUSION
Currently on my website, I have quite a few very important books and pages where you can find out how things should be done right. So, let’s talk about why it is so important for you as a homeowner to have these books or to see these pages.
Recently one of my customers sent me these pictures below:
  

In these pictures, you can see a 120k BTU-s furnace with the 5-ton AC – looks good, right? However, this particular homeowner is having a lot of problems with his system of ductwork it is why he had purchased both noise elimination pages on my website!
So, what is wrong?
Look at the picture to your left. If this is a 120k BTU-s furnace with 5 ton AC a cold air drop is undersized, instead of 24 x 10 it should be 24 x 12 and it should be connected to the furnace the other way. There are actually two ways how such furnace should be connected to the cold air return duct, see both of them below:
 
Secondly, the hacks who had this system installed did not mount any canvases. It suppose to be two of them one for the return and another for the supply ducts!

In the picture to your right, you can see how these so-called pro-s connected the furnace
to the supply duct. By the way, instead of 24 x 12 supply duct they just used 22 x 8!
So, instead of using a plenum, starting transition and canvas (see the picture to your left) they tapped the plenum directly to the bottom of the supply duct! It is why a homeowner is having those bang and oil-canning noises!

 


So what is this all about? Well, it is about the notion that you cannot trust anyone who claims that he/she is a pro and can do any type of installation the right way! As a homeowner, you must do your homework, as a homeowner you must know if a contractor you are hired knows what he/she is doing. Moreover, it does not matter if you are decided to do it yourself or hire a contractor – you will spend thousands and thousands of dollars and you should be aware that these hard-earned dollars could be wasted and do not wait for another ten years and suddenly find out that the job was done wrong!

All the books and pages on my website are very cheap. If you compare the price of the Ductwork Installation Guide (it is the highest one on my website – $75.00) with the price of a new construction system installation (the cheapest one is about $10,000.00) it would be only 0.75% - does it worth of suffering? I do not think so, or you can pay as you go. While they are doing rough-in buy only “Rough-in” part of the book and if it is working out good for you come back and buy the “Basement” part of the book when they will start working in your basement!

Therefore:

Currently I almost do not have free pages on my website, but all the prices here are very low and many of my customers keep emailing me until their questions are answered, I think it make sense...

                                                       ROUGH-IN $35.00
                                                       BASEMENT $45.00
                                      DUCTWORK INSTALLATION GUIDE $75.00
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