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Friday, August 19, 2011

Starving for Air

You might be surprised of the newer and older homes that have been built with heating and cooling systems not designed correctly to allow for the proper amount of return air to the homes heating and cooling system.

Many homes heating and cooling systems are starving for return air which travels back into the furnace fan area and feeds air to be either cooled or heated and sent on its way to the supply registers and into the various rooms of the home.

Consider having a local heating and air conditioning company calculate the cubic feet per minute (CFM) of return air needed to properly supply your home with the cooling or heating for the square footage of the home.

Starving your home of return air makes your furnace fan work harder to deliver the desired amount of cooled or heated air to the rooms in your home and takes longer for the thermostat to realize the desired set temperature you wanted the home to have. 

Starving your furnace of proper return air will make it hard to obtain good air circulation in the home and will also cost you more money to achieve the homes desired heating or cooling temperatures.

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