Placement of Thermostat

I would put it in your living room, but not on a outside wall.

Are you asking about placement of transfer grilles for return from those 2 rooms?

Is that why the drawing doesn't show a return duct?

beenthere said:

Are you asking about placement of transfer grilles for return from those 2 rooms?

Is that why the drawing doesn't show a return duct?

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That was my mistake to not mention how the return will work. The closet you see in photo and on drawing will have the air handler sitting on top of return air box and then connected to elbow for a up flow system. The door to the closet will be louvered to allow air into closet and the filtered return box. The other return feature I mentioned was for the two thru wall vents to have better return
From bedroom and what I am calling office room. I was thinking that maybe the thermostat would work good on the right side of air handler closet which would be very near the return air box/filter.

Thanks
JM

A straight thru transfer will cause you to lose privacy in the bedroom. Or noise to come into your office while working.

Will the range's exhaust hood be a min of 10' from the louvered doors. Code requires a min of 10' from the exhaust hood and a return.

Will here be any sunshine coming through the window/sliding door of the dining room that could shine on that wall.

Beenthere

Some good points and potential problems especially the range. It will be closer than ten feet (could possibly move) but the plan is to have a microwave above
And no actual hood. We have the same setup at our present house and no problem hood wise. The return is not a issue at our present house (20 feet away) Would the micro wave above and no hood only the filter on bottom of micro wave be a code issue? From a practical standpoint our Tennessee county
(Moore) has told the state that their code inspections are no longer needed and now no inspections are required except electrical.

Regarding the window and sunlight the window in this area is very high and would not shine on thermostat if on right side of airhandler closet.

Thanks
JM

If not exhausting to outside, should be okay.

I'm not sure I would get too tied up in thermostat placement. With today's higher tech thermostats you don't really need to anymore. Place it where ever is most convenient and use a thermostat with either hard wired or wireless remote sensor. Indeed the wireless sensors are great You can easily experiment with placement over time and move it if you find it an issue where it is.