2006-12-02 03:52:05 · 13 answers · asked by Craig L 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
It doesn't really matter if you close them or not. Closing the vent in the floor doesn't do anything as far as redirecting the air to other vents in the house because you still have the length of pipe that the vent is connected to that the air continues to travel down. The floor vents are mostly for directing the way the air travels when it comes out and doesn't act like any sort of damper. If anything when you close it, it will whistle and sounds more like a jet plane. You can either A:) leave the vents open B:) close the vents and take the chance of increasing the noise level a few DB's and still not gain any air flow in other parts of the house or C:) put a magnetic strip over the vents (I don't recommend it because the heating/AC system is designed to move a certain amount of CFM's and blocking off the air flow might cause other problems with the furnace itself). Of course you could always have someone come out and install dampers in each the individual heat runs and then manually adjust the air flow. (This is the most effective way)
CFM stands for Cubic Feet per Minute. It's how they measure air flow.
2006-12-02 08:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by Doug H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a small 2 bedroom home and in the winter I shut off the large bedroom and put a magnetic strip the size of the vent over it, shut the door and roll a small rug and put it across the door. This will decrees my heat bill almost 1/3. Michigan is cold I don't know if it would work that well everywhere
2006-12-02 04:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by Nani 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want a smaller heating bill, you should close them off. Shut the doors and put something at the bottom of the door so you don't get a draft from it. Unless those rooms have a bath in it, it will not hurt anything and will cut down drastically on the heating bill.
2006-12-02 04:01:32 · answer #3 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we had electric heat, we had a heater and thermostat in every room. I always turned off the heat and shut the doors of the bedrooms we didn't use. I think it saved quite a bit of electricity.
2006-12-02 04:00:46 · answer #4 · answered by Papa John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not using them don't heat them and close the rooms off. I put a rug under the door so the cold air does not get out into the heated rooms.
2006-12-02 04:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can restrict some air flow to those rooms but closing them is not a good idea only because your system was designed to "move" a certain amount of air. You may generate more problems by closing them off. Dead air tends to be cooler and moist, a musty smell may occur. Closing may starve the system of unconditioned air it needs to operate efficiently.
2006-12-02 04:11:24 · answer #6 · answered by iroquiscave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're not going to be using the rooms, yes: It will save on your heating bill.
2006-12-02 04:16:15 · answer #7 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and if there is a gap between the floor & the bottom of the door, put a draft blocker there.
2006-12-02 04:00:53 · answer #8 · answered by eilishaa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Then your other rooms get warmer quicker when the furnace kicks on and so, it does not have to stay on as long.
2006-12-02 03:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i would, no point in heating rooms that arent being used
2006-12-02 04:00:08 · answer #10 · answered by gypsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋