{"id":1513,"date":"2021-07-31T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:16:01","slug":"air-circulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/air-circulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To provide airflow to the closet, vestibule and machine room, I added some passive and active ventilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For this to fit inside a 2×4 wall, I had to use oval duct and special compact vent boots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The passive vents allow air from a low height to pass through a vertical duct and leave near the ceiling in the closet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At each end is a vent boot with a gasket that presses up against the drywall, making a good seal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s an identical setup on the other side for the machine room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vertical offset reduces sound transmission and rapid drafts, while supporting constant air flow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Each side also has active exhaust vents on the other end of the spaces, pulling air from up high and exhaust it down low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adapting between oval and round combined with an offset required some brute force, but actually worked quite well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This uses super quiet exhaust fans which can be run constantly, intermittently, or manually switched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To provide airflow to the closet, vestibule and machine room, I added some passive and active ventilation. The passive vents allow air from a low height to pass through a vertical duct and leave near the ceiling in the closet. There’s an identical setup on the other side for the machine room. Each side also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}