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Originally Posted by dmm
You need to balance your heating system ...
This means closing the opening (making smaller) the vents that are closer to the furnace, and fully opening the vents at the end of the runs (your kitchen).
Some places will have dampers to control (kinda like a valve for an air duct, but they will be under the floor). Also, hope that you don't have any ducts that may have seperated or leak air to the remote ends.
Is it a finished basement? Can you see the ducts if any of them are leaking, have gaps that may prevent the flow to the far ends?
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It's in Richmond, so, no basement
I've tried to closing the vents closer to the furnace, but it didnt seem to help a great deal.. I will experiment more later; it's my rental property, so it's harder for me to get in there and troubleshoot. Is it worth it to have a professional company do the 'balancing'? of course I dont know if i wanna pay someone to open and close vents though..
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Originally Posted by DsZ24
Did the kitchen vents ever have a good amount of heat comming out of them? or did you just move in? Could be under sized piping or you're losing air somewhere along the way. Maybe a connection wasn't sealed properly or has come loose.
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I just got the place recently, so I'm not sure if there was ever ample air flow out the vents..
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Originally Posted by aznrsx1979
I agree with ddm, you probably need to balance your heating system. Don't know the company's that come out to do the balancing, I've seen some of them do their work when I've been on different job sites and they test airflow and temperature at the different vents.
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Even if it costs a reasonable amount of money, i want to get it fixed. I don't want to go with the portable heater solution.
So the other thing the Sears guy said to me was that it's possible that the thermostat is broken, but the furnace is fine.
Originally, I'd put the thermostat up to 21 degrees, but the temp would read as 17. Now I've got the tenant to put it up to 27 (!!!) degrees, and she said that the temp reading is now a stable 20..
So I'm not exactly sure of the best way to proceed..
Hopefully the thermostat is broken.. but if it isn't, then my heating bill will go through the roof, as the furnace will always be working overtime to get it up to 27, but the temp only goes to 20..