Floor Ducts Vs Ceiling Ducts

I ve certainly written about a lot of them as well as how to do it properly.

Floor ducts vs ceiling ducts.

If you want to keep your high ceilings or there s just no room for ducts then ductless air conditioning is the answer. If theyre in the floor youll want your return in the ceiling. Ceiling ducts are more visible than floor ducts and harder to camouflage. Hot air rises and cold air drops.

Overhead ducts are a lot more convenient as they don t collect dust pennies and whatever else falls onto the floor. The only advantage to floor registers is for heating efficiency. Additionally it is easier to vacuum and eventually replace carpet as you don t have to work around the floor registers. Either type of register ceiling or floor can be used for this as long as the need for the area or room is matched.

The placement of your return is. In this situation it may be costly or difficult to add ducts to the new space and connect to your existing system. Ceiling ducts are conspicuous and difficult to camouflage. Floor heat ducts are not as visible as ceiling ducts.

Ah so many choices. 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. If you want to design and install a duct system to create problems the possibilities are endless. In fact i think it s the third worst place to put one.

This disperses warmth evenly throughout the room from floor to ceiling. Ceiling ducts cannot be used with radiant heating systems which generate heat from the floors. For cooling ceiling would be better. In the process of getting gas ducted heating quotes and have a choice of ducting to make.

Supply registers are the vents that deliver warm or cool air from your central heating cooling system to each room. This isnt the main concern however. They can be camouflaged with decorative vent covers that match carpeting tile or hardwood flooring. Today though let s focus on one particularly bad place to put a duct.

Floor ducts are less visible. 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. Floor ducts for heating according to the natural laws of convection heated air entering through floor ducts rises. For heating vents in the floor would be better.

One quote is all ceiling one is all floor and one is a combination. 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. If the registers are in the ceiling you will want your return low. 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.