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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 25, 2014, 01:52:45 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11283296
Oh my.
Stuart G (9,151 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 02:31 PM
Question about air conditioning.
Three bedrooms on 2nd floor. I spend most time in bedrooms A and B....almost no time in C
Would air flow be greater if I opened up the vent in bedroom C, or keep that vent closed. I have been told, the faster the air flow through the house, the faster the air gets cooled. The faster it gets cooled, the cooler the other rooms will be no matter what rooms are getting flow. Usually, I keep that room closed and very warm, does not get flow from AC. Is that the best way to go?
hollysmom (2,633 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 02:33 PM
1. I don'[t know that answer to this
I have an attic fan and find if I keep the windows open in the rooms I use I get the most effective use of the fan and don't need air conditioning except maybe 3 days a year, even then I can live without if, but if I have company they can't deal with heat.
OffWithTheirHeads (9,595 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 03:16 PM
2. Keep C closed. No point cooling a room you don't use.
That's based on 43 years in the industry.
edited to add; if theroy B were correct, you might as well cool your garage too. Makes no sense.
^^^pal of Amber's.
Curmudgeoness (14,372 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 04:40 PM
3. I have heard both cool it and close it off as the right way to do it.
The "cool it" crowd say that the warm walls and air from under the doors will make the A/C would harder to try to cool the area around that room. The "close it" crowd will say don't waste the A/C on a room you are not using.
I have never heard the faster air flow through the house makes it cooler. If that were true, it would seem to be best to close everything but one or two rooms off to make it flow really fast. I do know that in the office I work in, the installed all new ductwork and vents, and the vents cannot be closed off, only opened full blast or could close about halfway. I wanted a vent that could be completely closed off because I hate A/C blowing on me, and they said that the A/C would not work as well if they had vents that would close. I don't know why.
If you aren't sure, try testing it. See if opening the vent in there makes the A/C work longer, or your bills to go higher, or if keeping it closed off is better. Since there is contradictory opinions out there, that is the best we can do.
^^^pal of Omaha Steve's; the primitive with a sensitive bottom, who's looking for a charity for the homeless operated by atheists.
Kaleva (13,299 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 07:06 PM
6. You can increase volume to used rooms by closing off unused rooms.
This will cool your used rooms quicker and the A/C ought to run less.
As mentioned by another member, it doesn't do much good to cool or heat unused rooms.
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On a related note, when going from point A to point B in the rain, to stay drier should you run, or walk slowly?
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DUmmie didn't build that so he should shut it off....period.
I just added period to piss off the LGBTADCXYZs and other hyphenated metrosexuals. :-)
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Stuart G (9,151 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 02:31 PM
Question about air conditioning.
Three bedrooms on 2nd floor. I spend most time in bedrooms A and B....almost no time in C
Fat ugly wife in "c", two young male boarders in "A" and b".
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Wait... WTF? Dummies are using AC? The same dummies that chide use for our energy wasting lifestyle?
Lessee here... I'm supposed to walk to work, live in a cave, and the dummie has AC in the summer and (one assumes) heat in the winter?
The solution to your problem dummie is shut the AC off entirely and pitch a tent in your back yard. You get nice cool breezes that way. Live what you preach or shut your fat pie hole!
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Wait... WTF? Dummies are using AC? The same dummies that chide use for our energy wasting lifestyle?
Lessee here... I'm supposed to walk to work, live in a cave, and the dummie has AC in the summer and (one assumes) heat in the winter?
The solution to your problem dummie is shut the AC off entirely and pitch a tent in your back yard. You get nice cool breezes that way. Live what you preach or shut your fat pie hole!
Color me shocked.
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Aren't there rules for capitalization, because those headlines are a mess.
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Aren't there rules for capitalization, because those headlines are a mess.
Chris, there's also rules for hypocrisy, and the DUmb****s sure don't follow any of those, so why start with something as simple as the typed word?
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On a related note, when going from point A to point B in the rain, to stay drier should you run, or walk slowly?
"Mythbusters" has a show about that, I think their conclusion was running keeps you drier.
As far as the DUmmie and A/C, burn the house down and don't worry about it.