+ WitchDoctor +
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Has anyone ever tried this? Or does anyone have any kind of experience that would tell me this is not a good idea??
I've got a newer furnace, the auto pilot kind, and it won't start again this year. And the gas burners aren't in front for me to clean or anything, so I'll have to call the HVAC guy. However, it's going to take me most of the next week to have the basement "HVAC guy ready" lol...so after hours of troubleshooting it myself I remembered that in the winter I don't have to cool the grow room because the cold air coming in from outside to cool the hoods keeps the rooms cool enough...but then I blow that hot air from the hoods back outside. Even when it's below freezing the air coming from the 4th hood is warm.
Now, my house has about 12-15 registers throughout it, but only 2 returns. So I've always been under the impression that it wasn't getting enough return air anyways. So I'm thinking I can just cut a hole in the return in the furnace room and either attach the duct to a flange on the return, or just run the duct in it and tape it off really good. The only possible downside I can think of is that when the lights and fans go off at night, that the return might suck in cold air from outside, but there are filters attached to the fans so I'm pretty sure it wont pull any air through if the fans aren't pushing it.
Any thoughts before I try this out today?
I've got a newer furnace, the auto pilot kind, and it won't start again this year. And the gas burners aren't in front for me to clean or anything, so I'll have to call the HVAC guy. However, it's going to take me most of the next week to have the basement "HVAC guy ready" lol...so after hours of troubleshooting it myself I remembered that in the winter I don't have to cool the grow room because the cold air coming in from outside to cool the hoods keeps the rooms cool enough...but then I blow that hot air from the hoods back outside. Even when it's below freezing the air coming from the 4th hood is warm.
Now, my house has about 12-15 registers throughout it, but only 2 returns. So I've always been under the impression that it wasn't getting enough return air anyways. So I'm thinking I can just cut a hole in the return in the furnace room and either attach the duct to a flange on the return, or just run the duct in it and tape it off really good. The only possible downside I can think of is that when the lights and fans go off at night, that the return might suck in cold air from outside, but there are filters attached to the fans so I'm pretty sure it wont pull any air through if the fans aren't pushing it.
Any thoughts before I try this out today?