Solving Air Flow Problems in Your Home

Basic things that the homeowner can check to help air flow:

First and foremost, check your air conditioning filter to see if it is dirty and if so, remove the dirty filter and install a new filter. Plugged filters restrict air flow by creating a pressure drop.

Next, walk around your house to see if any cold air returns have anything such as couches, rugs or cabinets obstructing the vent. If anything is obstructing the vent, then remove these obstructions so that the cold air return, which is an air intake, can draw in enough air.

Last, but not least, walk around your home to check to see if all supply registers (heat vents that blows out air) are open. All supply registers should be open.

A popular homeowner misnomer is that by shutting off certain vents throughout the house will cause other vents to blow harder. This simply is not true, because CFM (a measurement of air flow, cubic feet per minute) is determined by the pipes diameter and only so much CFM can ever blow out due to the size of the round, regardless if other registers are shut off or not. Shutting down too many supply registers usually causes more harm than good by creating pressurization problems with the overall duct system that, in an extreme case, can actually cause your system to short cycle on a high limit whereby, increasing the cost on your utility bill while working key HVAC components and parts to reduce their life expectancy.

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