Where To Add A Cold Air Return

*DISCLAIMER*

Consult an HVAC specialist and contractor prior to adjusting the location of an air return from the floor to the wall. Do NOT alter the location of your air return without speaking to an HVAC specialist outset. This type of adjustment requires expertise. Any mistakes can have a major impact on your HVAC system.

It is recommended that your home have several air return vents (also known as "air intakes," "cold air returns"). Ideally, you should have one in every room. The more than the meliorate! The presence of air returns will allow your air pressure to be consistent. If you only have one return vent in your habitation, your air pressure won't exist optimal. It is best practice to have further air returns installed in this case.

Irresolute the location of an air return from the floor to the wall can only exist done on an interior wall. This aligning cannot exist done on outside walls. This is because exterior walls have diverse framing elements behind them such as concrete and wall studs that cannot be adjusted.

Why Air Returns on Walls vs. the Floor?

Gravity is on your side! - Easier to Clean

An air render on the floor collects much more dirt and droppings such equally pilus and lint. For this reason wall air returns will require less frequent cleaning.

Space Saving

Floor air returns must be clear of obstructions and heavy furniture. Transferring your air return to the wall will permit you to utilize your flooring space more freely.

No Vent Traps

Floor air returns are large with many openings, making it the perfect identify for your kids to throw things down the vent, and for your furry friends to get stuck. Wall air returns don't get pes traffic, and things can't drop within of them (thank you gravity).

Where on the Wall Should I Place My Air Render Vent?

There are two ideal placements depending on the function of your air return.

Upwardly Loftier: having an air return higher up on a wall volition exist better at sucking in hot air that rises. Making information technology more than efficient at transferring this hot air back into your organization to repeat the cooling bike.

Downwardly Depression: if you accept your air return lower on your wall it will role amend as a common cold air return. This volition let your air render to draw in cold air equally it sinks to the bottom of the room. Making it more than efficient at recirculating this common cold air through your furnace to repeat the heating bicycle.

How to Modify an Air Return from the Floor to an Interior Wall

Beneath are photos outlining the installation of our Drywall Pro Air Return
10" ten 30¼" to an interior wall.

The 2 squares on the floor are the original air return ducts.The drywall was removed from the wall to make room for theDRYWALL PRO AIR Render. If you lot take a look at the first and middle stud you lot will detect they accept been notched in the middle. This is to accommodate the width of the 10"x xxx.25" Drywall Pro Air Return which runs across the wall studs.

New drywall was added. The DRYWALL PRO AIR RETURN at present fits perfectly after the studs were notched. The vent has been fastened through the beaded frame with drywall screws. The vent is ready for mudding!

The beaded frame has been mudded. You can at present push button all the dampers open up past xc degrees to optimize your air returns intake. A piece of forest has been added to the floor where the original air return vent was.

Now that the drywall mud has fully dried, information technology is prophylactic to put the tray back in identify. The floor has been marked to determine where the finished flooring textile will lay.

Finished floor textile has been added and is fix for staining.

The transfer of the DRYWALL PRO AIR Return from the floor to the wall is fully completed! Baseboards have been added and the vent has been painted to match the wall surface.

Our DRYWALL RECEPTACLE Mountain would be a peachy add-on to the outlet beside this vent. Our Drywall Receptacle Mount makes light switches and plugs become flush with walls, simply like our vents!