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I just installed a Heat Pump this past winter and am enjoying using it for air conditioning but my basement is freezing. A 10 degree difference.
The basement stairway is open to the upstairs and I realize that the cold air will fall down here.
I have closed the two dampers and two vents to the basement although air is still pushing through a bit. The third just the vent is closed, the damper is buried in the ceiling.
My cold air return downstairs near the floor doesn't really feel cold (it's steel). I put a tissue up to it and it doesn't pull it in. I am not sure if it's working. There is nothing blocking it though.
I put the fan on circulate.
One one cold air return duct from the upstairs there was a piece cut out to clean the ducts a couple of years ago. It was taped up. I just pulled that out thinking the exposed hole would at least pull some cold air with it. I don't know if that is bad or not???
I am not sure what else I can do.
The basement stairway is open to the upstairs and I realize that the cold air will fall down here.
I have closed the two dampers and two vents to the basement although air is still pushing through a bit. The third just the vent is closed, the damper is buried in the ceiling.
My cold air return downstairs near the floor doesn't really feel cold (it's steel). I put a tissue up to it and it doesn't pull it in. I am not sure if it's working. There is nothing blocking it though.
I put the fan on circulate.
One one cold air return duct from the upstairs there was a piece cut out to clean the ducts a couple of years ago. It was taped up. I just pulled that out thinking the exposed hole would at least pull some cold air with it. I don't know if that is bad or not???
I am not sure what else I can do.