Floor Return Air Duct

Ideally it s a closed system with as little duct leakage as possible and the air that it s conditioning comes from inside the house.

Floor return air duct.

Imperial 6 in x 6 in galvanized steel round duct elbow. This pulls the air across your body. These can be found in a variety of finishes styles and materials. The return vent pulls cold air from the bottom of the room and returns it to the furnace to be reheated and returned as warm air.

Floor registers highlight your staircase and your flooring and provide the finishing touch to a well dressed home. They can be placed into staircase cavities stacked closets that run one on top of the other or in stud cavities in the wall. Imperial 4 in x 300 in insulated polyester flexible duct. Unlike supply vents return vents do not need to be cased in metal.

For pricing and availability. We are a distributor offering a wide variety of floor registers return air grilles and other air vents select from many materials designs and colors of floor registers return air grilles or air vents to best fit your space. The illustration above shows a floor joist cavity used as a return air duct by nailing material such as gypsum board sheet metal foil insulation or osb to the bottom of the floor joists. Floor mounted grilles are used as return air inlets to ducts.

Return air ducts usually use ceiling joist spaces as the actual duct. Without a return air duct the air would not properly circulate and your energy costs would rise. If the supply ducts are high or in the ceiling then the return air ducts or grills should be low on. However using panned floor joists as an hvac air.

The furnace or air handler ahu in the drawing below pulls air through the return ducts conditions that air and then sends it through the supply ducts back into the house. It differs from a register because it does not have a damper to control airflow. A return air duct is what carries air back to the furnace after it is dispensed throughout the home through the supply duct. Grilles the function of a grille is to pull air from a room to return it to the heating or cooling system.

Find floor registers in many different styles. The return air vent openings need to be on the opposite side of the room so the conditioned air is pulled across the room. Floor registers serve a decorative function as well as supplying heated or cooled air to the room. From basic designs to decorative victorian we have many styles to match your decor.

Air vent covers block air coming from registers. Welcome to floor register resources. Accord select charleston dark oil rubbed bronze floor register duct opening.