We are buidling a house where the ceilings/floors between the ground and first floors are insulated. The ground floor dining/living area, which is direclty below the main bedroom, will have a gas heater. I would like an insulated open/close vent through the ceiling to take warm air into the bedroom before we go to bed on winter nights. DJust to take the chill off. Does anyone know of such a product?.
Ground floor to first floor heat transfer
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dymonite69
Memberhttp://www.westaflex.com.au/_pdfs/ventilation/Vent_Air_Transfer_Kits.pdf
or look at the rest of their website.
Posted Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 @ 8:18:57 am from IP # -
Frateco
MemberThis is a great system but a word of warning. Make sure you don't lose heating in the space you are occupying 'cause let's face it, you are now heating 2 rooms. If the main bedroom is large, you'll need to think carefully about your heat outlay in the living room to accommodate losing that heat.
Just a thought.
Posted Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 @ 8:57:35 am from IP # -
auk
MemberThanks for that dymonite69. It looks like you can get one for a transfer from room to room on the same floor. I will contact westaflex to see if they can do a vertical one. Am aware of that risk frateco. Ideally I would have a duct that could be shut off at either end.
Any more leads?Posted Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 @ 11:07:01 am from IP # -
Eco
MemberWhat about something like a electric fan sub-floor vent (eg http://www.envirofan.net.au/dual_fans.htm) in lower floor ceiling with a close-able AC register in the upper-floor floor. Haven't seen it done but might work. (Have to work out how to hold the sub-floor vent on bottom of horizontal surface and to seal between the fan and the register.) Wouldn't be insulated - so some uncontrolled heat leakage would occur. Flow rate might be a bit lower than the inline fan option.
Posted Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 @ 11:38:44 am from IP #
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