The theory is by redirecting the air to other areas of the house

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Jun 12, 2022
9:14:06am

cougarfann888 All-American

Helps kick the thermostat off sooner. Not sure how that works in practice

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Unused upstairs bonus room above garage...do you shut the door and close the registers to help cool the house more

doctorcoug All-American

6/12/22 8:53am

That’s what we do with our in-home bowling alley that now bores us to pieces

LosAlcoug

6/12/22 8:59am

Elon Musk has a Boring Company that bores rocks to pieces; suggest you avoid bowling wih Elon

ColoSpgs

6/12/22 9:18am

I do. My wife disagrees with me. So we probably get it that way about 25%

Socrates Johnson

6/12/22 9:04am

My understanding is that this can actually damage your HVAC

ebv

6/12/22 9:05am

Interesting. I did know about zoning, but not the extra pressure and cracks thing.

Dark Forest Green

6/12/22 9:16am

That article is basically an advertisement saying don’t try to do anything

kotacoug

6/12/22 9:17am

Sounds like the best thing you could do then is get a smart thermostat with sensors in all the rooms so the thermostat

KingDave

6/12/22 9:21am

If you don’t have a thermostat there it won’t matter.

crimedog

6/12/22 9:12am

The theory is by redirecting the air to other areas of the house

cougarfann888

6/12/22 9:14am

It doesn’t. The air needs to circulate through the returns etc..

crimedog

6/12/22 9:19am

As long as you aren’t cutting off any returns and you are re directing total

kotacoug

6/12/22 9:29am

Sell the house and down size to one where I will use all the rooms.

hydrocoug

6/12/22 9:15am

Get a mini split for the room and close the vent

BIG XII Coug

6/12/22 9:29am

We are in the process of remodeling ours, taking out the 3/4 enclosed deck and

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