Floor Ducts Vs Ceiling Ducts

Today though let s focus on one particularly bad place to put a duct.

Floor ducts vs ceiling ducts.

For heating vents in the floor would be better. If the registers are in the ceiling you will want your return low. This disperses warmth evenly throughout the room from floor to ceiling. You can camouflage them with vent covers that blend seamlessly with carpeting hardwood or tile flooring.

Floor ducts affect furniture arrangement especially in small rooms. Overhead ducts are a lot more convenient as they don t collect dust pennies and whatever else falls onto the floor. Ceiling ducts don t hog existing or potential closet wall or ceiling space making an interesting or worse unsightly decoration and ceiling vents don t present the decorative dilemma floor vents often due forcing furniture to strange locations to prevent blockages in airflow. I ve certainly written about a lot of them as well as how to do it properly.

Supply registers are the vents that deliver warm or cool air from your central heating cooling system to each room. They can be camouflaged with decorative vent covers that match carpeting tile or hardwood flooring. Either type of register ceiling or floor can be used for this as long as the need for the area or room is matched. Additionally it is easier to vacuum and eventually replace carpet as you don t have to work around the floor registers.

If theyre in the floor youll want your return in the ceiling. Floor ducts for heating according to the natural laws of convection heated air entering through floor ducts rises. Ceiling ducts are conspicuous and difficult to camouflage. Heat entering through ceiling ducts however naturally tends to accumulate at the ceiling warming the room from top to bottom more slowly than floor ducts.

Ah so many choices. The combination has floor ducts in the bedrooms and bathroom under the towel rail they think of everything and the living areas have ceiling ducts. In this situation it may be costly or difficult to add ducts to the new space and connect to your existing system. Floor ducts are less visible.

If you want to keep your high ceilings or there s just no room for ducts then ductless air conditioning is the answer. In fact i think it s the third worst place to put one. Floor heat ducts are not as visible as ceiling ducts. You re adding a room to an existing space or adding cooling to a space like a garage or work room.

One quote is all ceiling one is all floor and one is a combination. What is the difference between supply registers and return registers. The only advantage to floor registers is for heating efficiency. This isnt the main concern however.

Ceiling ducts cannot be used with radiant heating systems which generate heat from the floors. The placement of your return is. As for pros and cons of either. If you want to design and install a duct system to create problems the possibilities are endless.

For cooling ceiling would be better.