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CAMPBELL — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you want to maintain air flow in vacant parts of your home, you&#8217;ll first need to know your options and the pros and cons of each. Today we&#8217;re with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Kent Penning of Cold Craft to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Kent Penning: Everyone wants to save money during heating season. And as a professional contractor and instructor at a vocational school, I get asked the following question quite a bit. People will ask me, say, Kent, I’ve got some rooms in my house that aren’t being used. Can I turn off my air outlet? Well, the answer is: That depends. That depends on a number of things.
One of the big things is: How many air outlets are in your home? First off, let’s talk about your air outlets. If you have an air outlet on the floor, it will generally be brown. And you can go ahead and open or close the air outlet by moving the thumb wheel on the side. And you’re not going to be able to see the dampers in the back, but the thumb wheel will go ahead and open or close the dampers.
Other homes will have a ceiling diffuser, and they’re typically white. And again, you’ve got a lever on the side that can be moved and will go ahead and move the blades in the back. By moving the blades in the back, you’ll either open or close said register or diffuser.
Well, how many can I close? Well, the rule of thumb is that you want to keep 60 to 70 percent of them open. So, if you’ve got 10 air outlets in your home, you want to keep six or seven of them for sure open.
Well, you know, I’m a tightwad, Kent, and I want to close down more than that. Well, be aware that you’re running a risk of overheating that furnace and having the furnace trip off and what we call a limit switch or a high temperature switch. If the furnace gets too hot, be it old or new, it will shut off because it’s too hot. And this is to protect you and your family.
So, my recommendation is not to turn off any more than six or 60 percent of the air outlets in your home, unless you like &#8211; want to spend a cold night. The furnaces do protect themselves, and these safeties, you know, are meant to protect you and your family.
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