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Hey, We're back and today.

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We're gonna talk about free air conditioning.

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Well,

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maybe not exactly free air conditioning, but maybe

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how to take advantage of that cold air

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in your basement. That's what we're gonna talk

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about. So

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about and

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maybe help you out with, your particular situation.

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So here we go. Alright. So

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gonna start with a share so we can

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share the screen here,

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and then...

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It's because the first thing we have to

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do is a bit of a review.

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Yes. So have we not beat this horse

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to depth enough thermal,

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more to less.

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Right?

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Yep. Wool dry air tends to fall

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and warm moist air rises.

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K Yes.

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So when we're talking about using free air

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conditioning the cooler air in your basement,

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you have an effect going on in your

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house called the stack effect. Any incoming air

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to your home,

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whether it's... It could be through crawl space

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fence, it could be, you know, hose bib,

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could be poorly sealed rim jo, that air

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in your basement is going to feel cooler,

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but as it warms, it will naturally

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rise, go up through your roof or any

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of your light fixtures that aren't sealed, things

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like that, creates a stack effect. But when

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you go from your set a floor down

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to your first floor down to your basement.

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You noticed that it feels cooler.

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So you wanna know, how do I get

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some of that cooler air?

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Right.

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But take advantage of that free air condition.

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That's right.

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So the first thing we're gonna wanna do

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is figure out where is that error coming

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from. Right?

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So if it is duct leak kit or

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if it's leakage from, like, rim joys or

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poorly insulated windows or weather stripping around doors

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in the in the basement.

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You may not wanna just draw that arrow

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up. Because if it's moisture laden, it could

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actually lead to more problems.

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Because as you bring that arrow up,

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you're just increasing the humidity upstairs, which could

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change your comfort. Right? Right.

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And that and that's not comfortable. They...

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The temperature is 1 thing, but the humidity

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level is another issue. So you could have

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70 degrees, but

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hundred percent humidity and it's gonna feel nasty.

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And you you could have 80 degree air

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and 30 percent humidity, and that's gonna feel

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comfortable. A... So what you just described, the

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first 1 is our summer, The second 1

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is our winter.

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It... Yeah. Down there in Florida.

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Yeah. It's exactly it. So So...

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But if your basement tight enough, You know,

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it depends on the age of your house

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and if it was built in the nineties

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or something it's probably. Semi tight, so not

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gonna say great, you know, because we didn't

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do a lot of ins insulating of the

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rim jo, things like this. You could have

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some air leakage there. But if the house

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was built in the twenties, then

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this may not be the best idea altogether.

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So you may wanna

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watch the whole thing here because I don't

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think we wanna just do step number 1,

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which might be to... Put a fan at

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the top of the stairs.

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Right. At yeah. Of the basement stairs.

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Yeah. And just suck clear out.

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Yeah. So that would actually cause it to

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draw air up. Right? From the basement, start

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pushing it around the house.

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But it could also create an issue.

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I having a problem going to next.

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There we go.

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Okay.

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I'll let this so don't worry about it.

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Okay. So if you have a fan at

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the top of the stairs, you're just gonna

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be trying to draw the air up from

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the basement and pass it through your your

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house or you might have a 2 story

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on on top of that basement, and you're

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gonna have another fan at the very top

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of those stairs doing insane,

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that's just moving error. Right? But it might

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help.

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So if you... If you were had that

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at the top of the stairs, gonna have

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all this negative air in the basement.

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That's gonna be pulling in that cooler air,

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but it's also gonna be drawn in outside

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air

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and blowing it into the... You're into the

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second first and second floor then. Right. And

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if your humid exterior outdoor humidity it's high.

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You're not just pulling it... Feels to be

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cooler air, you're gonna pull in moisture air

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and it's just, like I said, you could

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cause some issues with that. Right. Because then

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all of a sudden start to condensate and

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what You'll have... I mean, I just said,

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if you're using a box fan at the

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top of stairs, that's not gonna draw outside

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air so strong.

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But if we go to a whole house

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fan, which is pretty common in the in

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the Northern

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climate,

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All house fan is actually a a really

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nice thing. You know, you get those nice

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nights where it's half a decent outside, and

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you wanna crank that whole house fan. It's

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just gonna fully air up into the attic,

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which should be properly.

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And it's just gonna pull air in from

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your windows of that. But again, if your

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basement, lower level is not air sealed properly.

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That may not come through those windows and

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make pull it through other areas that maybe

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you don't want it to pull it from.

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And 1 of those key things might be

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your water heater.

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Right. Yeah. You might have a fireplace or

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something, course, if you're trying to get cool

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air, Probably I don't have a fireplace.

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No. But you could still draw all that

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soot, you know, that that air negative pressure

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is gonna come down through. If you have

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an old ashes there from an old fire,

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that's gonna get stirred up and get drawn

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into the house. So, yeah. You wanna make

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sure that the the fireplace is sealed up

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if you're gonna do that. And these were

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extremely popular in the fifties and sixties.

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You just gotta make sure that the volume

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of air you're pumping into your attic has

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the same amount of room to get out.

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Otherwise, you're just gonna press your attic and

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correct problems.

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Cc. Stops working so well. Correct. And a

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lot of times what you do then, you

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open all the windows on the first floor,

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close all the windows on the second floor,

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and now you're just sucking all that air,

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and you're just gonna clean out the whole

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house, and it'll change that air over pretty

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fast.

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And it it does really work quite well.

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If you have a whole house space.

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And good like, just gotta watch where the

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the make air or the incoming errors is

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coming from. It should be from Windows with

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screens. It should be, you know,

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otherwise, it's gonna suck through bath fans and,

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like we said bad fans water heaters, You

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know, any of your gas appliances or so.

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Right. And during the winter, you gotta ins

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seal then. Because now that's a huge heat

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heat loss there too.

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So you gotta think about that when you're

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when you're,

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putting 1 in.

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So another suggestion I've seen out there is

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to add a fan with some duct work,

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Like, maybe just drop an 8 inch duct

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into your basement,

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and

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just drop an 8 inch duct into your

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basement, and it maybe connected to 1 of

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these babies, which is just a cent fan.

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And that you could run the duct work

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up to say the first floor or the

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second floor. So that way you're just sucking

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that cool air out of the basement up

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into the second floor or of the the

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floor above. Right. But I don't recommend that

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there's a few issues that really go along

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this. 1 is obviously negatively pressure in the

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basement again. Right? You're gonna dry her from

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the wrong spot. The other thing I don't

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like is there's no good way to control

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this fan.

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You know, you... It's not gonna work on

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an.

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You could possibly do a thermostat, but I

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don't know how it's gonna shut off as

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your basement not like a chiller. You're now

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gonna do low seth point.

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It and it's just kinda, you know, that

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home it just drive you crazy. Just might

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happen

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Right. How it depends on how quiet that

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fan is. Although, I get... It's probably quieter

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than a than a box fan.

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So... I would think so So you do

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have that going for you. But and the

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other issue that I actually think about is

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we actually, when we frame a house, we

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have to put it fire stops between all

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the floors. And then I'm not gonna sit

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here and tell you to just cut 8

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inch holes in your floor from the second

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floor down to the basement, run a duct

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work in there to suck air because you've

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just made it an easy path for fire

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to go through your house. Right.

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Success That's my big reason for saying. Don't

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do that.

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Yep. It can be done, but probably you

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don't want to. Right here, you you would

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put a box fan right up here,

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and and then that would blow that air,

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suck it out of the basement and blow

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up into the first floor.

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Yeah. And that's what you're talking about there.

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Right.

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So this 1 is is proper duct.

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So in this model, we're talking about possibly...

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If your if your air handler happens to

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be in your basement.

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This gets to be a lot easier because

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you add that return. If you notice in

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this drawing, they don't show a return in

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the base. They show the duct work from

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the first and second floor going into the

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from the rooms. That's all the blue arrows

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pointing in.

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But there's nothing in the the lower level

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in that basement area trying air in.

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So you could open up,

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on the back of that return Trunk, you

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could put in a return,

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and that would draw the air from there.

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Again, we've worn

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about your gas fired appliances and say, well,

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heater in there. Right? I don't know looks

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like gas by the piping?

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Yes. Right here. You know, look in the

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picture in the corner. So it looks like

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all gas.

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So you don't wanna suck

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back

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anything because if try to cool, I can

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probably on the furnace on, just under conditioning.

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Right.

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Right. And if you have an electric water

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heater, we don't need to worry about this.

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Right Yep. If you have a gas fired

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water heater

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that's not a sealed combustion unit, then

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this this becomes something to think about.

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So The other thing I would do is

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like, put a hole in the return on

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that. Right there in the bay. Yep. Yep.

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Use that. I would go on the first

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floor and close those returns. Yep. Right here

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here...

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The air that you're cutting off on those,

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you're gonna pick up on the lower level.

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Right. I would leave the returns open.

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On the second floor so that I could

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draw that cold air out for that hot

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air, excuse me.

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You can see the red arrow on the

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second floor drawing in that hot air.

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So that... Your cycles so you're drawing the

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hot air off the highest floor, and you're

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gonna suck in the coolest air at the

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lowest, and if not... It should lower the

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temperature 4 or 5 degrees. We're not talking.

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And about really, you know, chilling the house.

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But by doing that, you're gonna stabilize the

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temperature throughout.

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Yeah. And you you can do something as

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simple saran wrap over the over these things

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to close a lot. And then that way,

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you know, when the seasons changes go by

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you just rip that back off, and you

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can change it around. And now this also

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is for Intern.

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Okay. Our buddy's is open not. Yeah. Yeah.

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I find I I find that whoever does

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their drawings this thing on the same page

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as me.

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Yeah. That's good. So this is this is

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actually... It it might be confused. You're not

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looking straight down. It's not a floor plan.

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It is actually...

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Where it says Intern that is the floor,

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the ceiling is there where this typical room.

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You have a return, which is usually a...

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Most returns are using the 2... The stud

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space,

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Yep. Right going down to the pan off

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floor box, and enable a window there. So

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they're talking about doing here is to depending

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on the season. Now, this is showing winter.

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Heating.

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So in the in the winter, you had

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block off the top and open the bottom.

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Right. But we're talking about using basement air

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to help cooling.

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So if that's the case, we wanna open.

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This net top 1.

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Yep. And close the bottom 1. So we're

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drawing the warm air from the top. So

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So during the summer, you wanna suck the

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hot air off the ceiling and have it

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go down.

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And then during the winter, you wanna suck

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the cold air off the floor and keep

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the heat in the room.

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So that's that's that's why they're doing it.

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Right.

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Yeah. I just... I find a little saran

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rep just works wonders.

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So... Right

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So... But bottom line is the, their best

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way of doing this or, I think the

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ultimate best way is actually by visiting your

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duct work and, you know, having somebody balance

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the system with the return in the lower

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level

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in the basement,

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but there are products out there. If we're

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worried about makeup pair. Remember we're talking, We

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don't wanna suck it out of the basement.

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So you're looking for either an E or

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an Hr via, e and cover ventilator or

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an energy recovery in ventilator.

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So again, depending on the season, what these

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do, these are basically mixing boxes,

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come So they're gonna draw air from outside.

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It could be hot warm humid air

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coming in as fresh air. It's gonna mix

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in this box. And it's gonna kinda cool

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it down. It's gonna d dehumidifier it, which

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right. There's gonna make it feel cooler. And

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then it's gonna also take that stale air

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from your house, pushing shit it out. In

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this site you get air changes in your

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house in a controlled manner.

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Right.

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Now the downside to these is cost, they

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tend to run, you know, 3000 dollars or

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so, but very effective, if you have space

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in your lower level.

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This is not just for cooling. You can

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do a heating or pool in 3 you

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put 1 of these in to break in

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your... A fresh air in your home. It

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connects to your return air side, and it

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just pumps household of fresh air.

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That the key is it's d

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prior to putting in your system.

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Right.

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Your air conditioner basically is a d file.

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Right? I mean, you that boils in narrowing

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it collects moisture the water goes into the

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drip and off the drain. So it's dehumidifier.

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But if we're taking...

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Outside air where a high humidity,

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you're gonna over work that, and you could

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end up with the mold or the sludge

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in the you know, in the unit, it

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can actually have frees up because of too

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much moisture.

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Yeah an repair movement. So

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it's really important to kind of balance this

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out

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So

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hopefully Could you some idea how to get

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the air out of your basement and use

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it, but...

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Right. So... And I think if if you

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don't have that return in the basement, and

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you go around on the first floor and

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you close all those returns.

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And then you go to the second floor,

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make sure all those returns are open.

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You're also choking off half the air,

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that should be going through that that Air

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exchange. So you could fe

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freeze up your a coil

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if you don't have enough volume of air

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going through it. So whatever you're closing off

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on the first floor, you wanna make sure

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you're making up that amount of air,

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coming in if you're gonna drop from the

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basement or somewhere else. You just don't wanna

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start closing things off because that can actually

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choke off the whole Ac unit, make it

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even worse.

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So,

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balancing that error is fairly important.

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So... Yeah. I mean, you can measure the

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openings that you're closing off.

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So do the math. You know what I

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mean? If if it's 4, and they're 4

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by 12.

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Right? That's 16 by 12. Right. That's what

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size return you need on the bottom on

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the the air handler or you know, on

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the return side. Yep. You put a 16

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by 12 on there and you've now done

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the math. It's... It

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that might be overs, but it still actually

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works. No. That... You know, that's that's down

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and dirty.

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You don't have to worry about freezing up

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your a coil. And having a service call

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and the guy's going where you're an idiot,

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Why'd did you do that? Well, I saw

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these guys on Youtube, say, told me to

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do it. So let's talk real quick. Let's

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talk about these people that maybe live in

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a in a an a condo or, you

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know, a smaller home where they just throw

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1 main return in.

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Now what... You know, they don't have this

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this option here.

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So now when you have central return, it's

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it's very difficult to do anything. I mean,

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that's when you start using the box fan

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at the top of the stairs,

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it's just no good way to get the

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you know, in this particular drawing we have

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up here is if you notice the duct

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works not connected to the basement all the

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way on the second floor because they're you're

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talking about 2 different climates.

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Yeah. So this 1 here is a

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so... That's what we do. We put our

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air handlers in our attic. U. But at

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least this attic is insulated like mine so

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that that is now inside conditioned space. Right.

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But now we're... And I mean, a cooling

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environment.

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So we dropped the cold air out, and

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then we suck the hot air up.

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Yep.

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But the 1 at the bottom is actually

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talking about... Heating climate, and that's why you

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noticed the arrows are reversed and all that.

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So... Right.

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And,

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this is the right way to do it,

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But there are a lot of production homes

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where they just... They throw in

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the air handler 1 big return.

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And they they run some,

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you know, not even duct work. They just

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run the the flexible tubing

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around the house and and blow it in

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there and call it done. So Yep.

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You know, depending on how the... This is

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constructed in your home, we'll determine whether or

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not you can even do such a thing.

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So

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Just... If you look into your system real

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quick, you'll be able to tell.

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Yeah. We'll just give you a few ideas,

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hopefully some something or a modified system some

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of this will work. We're just trying to

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fill you in on what to watch for

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and what not to do as well as

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what might you might be able to do.

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Right.

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Some Exactly.

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I'm gonna say at this point,

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keep it square level.

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Until next time. You go. Until next time.

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Start rolling that music right now.