Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Diagnose a COLD Room

22 January 2015

Re: [DIY] Diagnose a COLD Room

Great idea to cut opening and add two registers back to back steve!!

I forgot I did that on old house we bought in 1977...and it worked

fabulously....and could control the temp easy with adjusting one

of the registers above the door!!

We just did blocking on the top and fitted the registers on top of the

door beam!

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From: "Steve Wilson virtualwilz@yahoo.com [DoIt_Yourself]" <DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com>
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DIY] Diagnose a COLD Room

I just had an idea that came to me on this subject, forgive me if someone already suggested it. I haven't been keeping up on the conversation very well.
It was mentioned the return register is in the master bedroom. So that means all the return air likely gets cut off by the door being closed, poor flow.
The idea was to find a spot on the wall by the door between 2 wall joists and cut an opening the size of a return register, block it off top and bottom with 2x4's and cover it with a register on each side. Then it wouldn't matter if the door was closed or not, air would flow whether the door was opened or closed.
Steve

On 1/13/2015 8:52 AM, ddj0195@yahoo.com [DoIt_Yourself] wrote:

We have just moved into a 9 year old house. It is a two story house and appears to be well built and in very good condition. However, now that the winter weather has arrived we are having problems with the master bedroom being too cold. All other rooms on the 1st and 2nd floors are warm and comfy. The master bedroom (with master bath and walk in closet) will be ok if the doors are left open, but gets dramatically colder if the bedroom doors are closed. There are several HVAC ducts in the room and also a return air register. So one would expect the room to remain warm when the doors are closed. Part of the master bedroom is above the garage which is insulated and stays much warmer than the outside temp, but is unheated so it is colder than the main house.

How can we figure out where the problem comes from? We would rather not bring in half a dozen contractors, all looking to make money off us. But if we could diagnose what the actual source of the problem might be, we can then fix it or manage the repair costs better.