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Hello. I have one room, my master bedroom, that is ridiculously cold compared to the rest of the house. My wife and I just purchased the home (first home) two months ago, and the weather was still warm in Southern California at the time. While it doesn't get too cold here, there were a couple occasions where we did not leave the heater on at night and our bedroom was on the 40s!!
So in my quest to figure out why my bedroom was so cold, we've stumbled across a few issues that will need addressing. There is no window, only one sliding patio door that had a huge crack in it. I sealed it up with caulking as a temp fix but we're replacing that door shortly. Another thing I stumbled across was that my forced air heating system might not be as efficient as possible. If it comes down to an issue of a little bit of ducting work and some elbow grease, I have no issue going a little extra mile to make it as efficient as possible.
The furnace is in a cabinet in the hallway, and there is only one cold air return and it is directly below the furnace cabinet in the hallway. I've read that my bedrooms might not be cooling properly because we leave the doors closed at night time and there is no cold air return inside the room, which causes the heat register to not be able to force air properly. Some solutions to this that I've found in my [brief] research were to place cold air returns in each room, or to install transfer ducts/grills in the attic - since that's where my current ducting is.
So my question is, within the scope of obvious/non obvious limitations, which would help make my system as efficient as possible? All of the heat registers are in the ceiling, and within a few feet of the openings of all the rooms. If I were to install cold air returns, they would have to be in the ceiling as well; is that going to help, or is that counter-intuitive? Please advise!
Rob
So in my quest to figure out why my bedroom was so cold, we've stumbled across a few issues that will need addressing. There is no window, only one sliding patio door that had a huge crack in it. I sealed it up with caulking as a temp fix but we're replacing that door shortly. Another thing I stumbled across was that my forced air heating system might not be as efficient as possible. If it comes down to an issue of a little bit of ducting work and some elbow grease, I have no issue going a little extra mile to make it as efficient as possible.
The furnace is in a cabinet in the hallway, and there is only one cold air return and it is directly below the furnace cabinet in the hallway. I've read that my bedrooms might not be cooling properly because we leave the doors closed at night time and there is no cold air return inside the room, which causes the heat register to not be able to force air properly. Some solutions to this that I've found in my [brief] research were to place cold air returns in each room, or to install transfer ducts/grills in the attic - since that's where my current ducting is.
So my question is, within the scope of obvious/non obvious limitations, which would help make my system as efficient as possible? All of the heat registers are in the ceiling, and within a few feet of the openings of all the rooms. If I were to install cold air returns, they would have to be in the ceiling as well; is that going to help, or is that counter-intuitive? Please advise!
Rob
