Save Energy by Closing Supply Registers
Recently I’ve noticed that more and more people coming on this and on the “Closing Cold Air Return” pages! I don’t know why, because most of the visitors of my website are very shy people – most of them don’t ask any questions and trying to escape as soon as possible!
But come-on guys I won’t chase you with a knife and strip you of your money!
Feel free to ask a question!
So, I can only guess that real reason why people started to flock on those pages it’s because they feel very uncomfortable in their dwellings during this hot summer and trying find the way how to survive the next night!
I can’t promise that I able to resolve all related to this problem issues, but we can try look into it together!
Most common problems why it’s too hot upstairs are:
• Unbalanced system
• Aren’t enough heat runs and/or cold air returns
• Insufficient insulation system of ductwork
and so on.
If you stop running around of the internet and ask your questions maybe I can help you and don’t forget once you will see that it’s become very possible that I may ask to pay the money you can escape this danger by saying: I’ve got enough information and pull the plug off!
Heat Runs
The basic idea behind this is: you have to close supply vents in rooms which you don’t use and it will save you energy and, of course, the money. I tried it in my house and I discovered the fact that if you close all vents which you thinking unnecessary at this time you will spend even more energy then before. So, what you have to do and how?
My idea, and after you read this you can try it in your house, is – you have to create an environment around your thermostat such so it faster shuts down the furnace. In order to do this in my house (my house is a colonial with the furnace in the basement and the thermostat is located on the first floor) I’m closing almost all floor vent on the second floor during day time and open them up at night. Also I keep all doors on the second floor open so the cold air returns can easily bring the air back to the furnace and rooms on the second floor didn’t freeze up. As a result more air is blowing through the vents on the first floor and thermostat earlier reacting on faster rising temperature around it!
But as you probably already figured it out it’s kind of a big job: every day walk around the house and fool around with the floor vents! No, not at all, I just made covers from an old carpet 13” x 6” for the registers 10” x 4” and pulling them over the vents by my foot, day in and day out 1 ½ minutes job!
But here is one thing you have to take into consideration I built HVAC system for my house by myself and I put some extra heats on the first and second floors, so if you’ll try this energy saving tip in your house and its not gives you reduction in the furnace cycle you have to add one or two heat runs on the first and on the second floors. If you don’t know how to do that, contact me and I will explain. Furthermore, for the first one of you I will do it for free, because with your help I will make a special page dedicated to this issue!