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Old 5/25/11, 9:34 PM
Andy T. Bishop Andy T. Bishop is offline
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Default Cold air return duct placement

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I just finished a new construction home. It had 2 air returns in the master bedroom CLOSET with one heat/ac run. One cold up high and one mid on different walls but one return duct the high one just above and a foot over from the heat run. The one in the bedroom had two heat/ac runs with one return one foot over and level to one of the runs. The upstairs large open area between bedrooms had one heat duct and 4 return ducts. 2 of the 4 bedrooms had their return ducts in the ceiling.......I am not a HVAC pro but is this ok?
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Old 5/25/11, 11:43 PM
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Hello All!
I just finished a new construction home. It had 2 air returns in the master bedroom CLOSET with one heat/ac run. One cold up high and one mid on different walls but one return duct the high one just above and a foot over from the heat run. The one in the bedroom had two heat/ac runs with one return one foot over and level to one of the runs. The upstairs large open area between bedrooms had one heat duct and 4 return ducts. 2 of the 4 bedrooms had their return ducts in the ceiling.......I am not a HVAC pro but is this ok?
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I would be glad to help you but your descriptions makes no sense to me sounds to me like your a little confused or at least I am??????



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Supply and return next to each other is wrong.

I can't make out anything else you said.



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Old 5/26/11, 3:09 PM
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sorry. long day yesterday. It was just wrong. So no worries. I will let the Furnace guy and code guy take another look and tell me why?
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