Cold Air Return?

Question

What is involved in relocating a cold air return? I wish to place it in the ceiling above my pellet stove so I can circulate the warm air.

Answer 1

The idea of a "Cold air return" is to deliver the cold air to the heat source. Do this and your heat will circulate via natural convection. If your stove is close to your forced air furnace you can run a duct to the return along with the present return air. This will cause the furnace blower fan to circulate the hot air thru the heating vents and still pull cold air to mix with it at the return.

Answer 2

Your 1st issue is safety. How efficient is a pellet stove? What combustion by-products will I suck into my return air system. You may be better served at a height closer to the floor, if at all. Please be diligent in the research and be vewy vewy careful.

Should you decide to accept this mission, your next project will be gaining access to a spot where you can effectively tie into the system. Then its basically a matter of cutting a hole to accept your extension. Seal it tight with heat tape, like you would use on a dryer vent. Then you simply put it all together, and finish it to look just the same, with a new vent.

This is obviously a simplification of the task, if you are a beginner, it may be a little rough.

But seriously, don't screw around with the safety aspect.

Answer 3

It's simply a matter of running ductwork from a point in your existing return to the point above your P.S. I can't tell you how large the ductwork should be because you failed to give square footage and whether or not you have central A/C. Generally speaking, the return should be as large as the largest duct in the return system. So if the largest duct dimension on your return was 20" X 8" you would want to install a duct of that size or its equivalency (20x8=160 sq. in., so 10x16, 12x14, or 13x13 would work. If you wanted to use round duct one with a 14" diameter would be the approximate equivalent for a 20x8 rectangular duct.) Good luck.

Answer 4

The chilly air returns are offering air pass on your furnace and ac unit. with out this you're putting the completed equipment in a starvation for air mode which will ultimately cave in the ductwork or dissipate the fan motor. they are there for a reason. Your equipment will cycle on and stale greater with those return air grilles blocked off. tell her to be arranged for the warmth and ac to be completely ineffiecient which ability your application costs will boost, and additionally tell her to anticipate to ought to replace the motor, and different relays that dissipate because of the fact of no intake air for the blower motor. this is not a stupid situation to do in case you do not comprehend any better, yet now which you comprehend better in case you preserve doing it - this is totally stupid.