Ventilation Between Floors

There are many ways but this is the way i do it efficiently with quality and time.

Ventilation between floors.

You cut a small hole in the ceiling to check that there. Locating the vent 1. This size fits just between most floor joists. The most common size duct used is 14 in.

The recommended minimum area of ventilation required for under a suspended timber floor is 1500mm 2 for every metre of perimeter of the structure. Add a false return grille cut an access hole in the ceiling of the first floor in a central area to gain access to the ducts. Cross flow ventilation was traditionally achieved by placing sleeper walls see figure 2 at intervals throughout the sub floor. Here are several ways to access ducts.

Locate cross beams between the first and second floors by running the stud finder across the ceiling. During the summer the glycol ground loop will lower the temperature of your ventilation system s supply air. Occasionally we need to access the ducts between the floors to improve the airflow. I don t recommend adding an additional heat exchanger to try to get more coolth out of your glycol ground loop.

Sub floor ventilation many traditional properties are built with a suspended wooden floor which sits above a void air space between the perimeter walls and ground. Mark each corner of the 4 x 4 square with a nail. The sleeper walls would be honeycombed in nature to facilitate airflow. In this video i share with you how i install a hvac air duct floor vent.