NurseDoe
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I live in the High Desert. We have some pretty cold winters and the heater is used Dec-Mar. My house is a 1950's ranch with 4 bedrooms/ 3 baths. 3/2 are original. In the 1970's they converted the attached garage into a living room and added a bedroom. I have 2 water heaters and 2 forced air heaters and, as you can imagine, very high heating bills!
I was surprised by some ducting that is in the way of where I want some bookshelves to go. I thought I could just raise the ceiling up, while repairing some damage to my ceiling, when I ran into this huge ducting. It comes from the forced air heater outside my room. There is also a Non-funtional airconditioning unit that is somehow joined in that same vent. The unit sits outside, but on top to the heater, there is a piggy backed section of metal that says air conditioning with hoses and stuff sticking out.
So, the dilema is this. Do I just cover up the exposed ducting again and give up on the bookcase (it is taller than the ceiling in the area)? Do I pay someone to come and figure out if we can re-route the ducting somehow? Or, would it be possible to somehow join the ducting so that there is just one forced air heater? Would that be cheaper to run?
The house is about 2400 square feet, with the add on being about 900-1000. I would love to reduce my heating bills if possible. For cooling we have an evaporative cooler on the roof that is vented through out the house and that has separate ducting.
I was surprised by some ducting that is in the way of where I want some bookshelves to go. I thought I could just raise the ceiling up, while repairing some damage to my ceiling, when I ran into this huge ducting. It comes from the forced air heater outside my room. There is also a Non-funtional airconditioning unit that is somehow joined in that same vent. The unit sits outside, but on top to the heater, there is a piggy backed section of metal that says air conditioning with hoses and stuff sticking out.
So, the dilema is this. Do I just cover up the exposed ducting again and give up on the bookcase (it is taller than the ceiling in the area)? Do I pay someone to come and figure out if we can re-route the ducting somehow? Or, would it be possible to somehow join the ducting so that there is just one forced air heater? Would that be cheaper to run?
The house is about 2400 square feet, with the add on being about 900-1000. I would love to reduce my heating bills if possible. For cooling we have an evaporative cooler on the roof that is vented through out the house and that has separate ducting.