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How are you going to run the new ventilation shaft for balanced ventilation? In most houses I know that would mean tearing down/up a lot of walls and ceilings/f
by spockz 4y ago
How are you going to run the new ventilation shaft for balanced ventilation? In most houses I know that would mean tearing down/up a lot of walls and ceilings/floors. Or you have to run them on the existing ceiling and those pipes are quite large.
- ericd 4y agoUsually HVAC heat exchangers pretty close to an exterior wall, because the run to the exterior heat exchanger is ideally not too long, so you can tap into the return plenum there. But even if there’s not, there’s some flexibility in where you tap in (though some places might be more ideal than others). For us, it was just a couple 6”holes in the cinderblocks of a basement wall (at least 6 feet apart).
- HdS84 4y agoWe did this for our house built in 68. Obviously it depends on the architecture but we where able to place the central unit beneath the roof. All rooms on the first floor are connected through the roof space. A central column runs through the first floor and goes to the corridor on the ground floor. From there we where able to connect all rooms. The floor lost 15 cm height but it has 250 cm so it did not matter much. If you cannot do it you can run the pipes on the exterior walls and insulate them with ,20 cm Styropor.
- lnsru 4y agoUsing old obsolete way oversized chimney. Enough place for pipes and cables.
- drjasonharrison 4y agoLaundry chutes too
- brnt 4y agoI planned out ceiling suspended pipes in only corridors, where I figured the visual annoyance is least. 2 years in, I don't regret it at all.