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by daddyhominum
Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:25 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Encapsulating the crawl space
Replies: 2
Views: 1302

Encapsulating the crawl space

I'm thinkig about encapsulating the crawl space under my manufactured home. I hope to gain some heat advantage, reduction of animal and insect ingress, dehumidification of the space . I took information from crawlspace.net and other online searches I would like to hear opinions and experiences of ot...
by daddyhominum
Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:55 pm
Forum: All Other HVAC Questions
Topic: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven
Replies: 10
Views: 6257

Re: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven

Repairman cut open the crossover duct today, rejoined the metal pipe inside and taped it all back up tightly. Cost: $100

So, I'll call this problem resolved. Thanks for all the great help.

Cennis
by daddyhominum
Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:14 pm
Forum: All Other HVAC Questions
Topic: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven
Replies: 10
Views: 6257

Re: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven

Hi All, The technician found that the metal pipe inside the 10 inch insulated crossover has separated so that the forced air is not able to flow smoothly to the registers reducing the heated air exitiIng those registers. I presume the static back pressure increase in the crossover encourages more fl...
by daddyhominum
Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:40 pm
Forum: All Other HVAC Questions
Topic: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven
Replies: 10
Views: 6257

Re: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven

Hi Robert. Thanks for reply. I am over 70 and my knees are bad so I sent a young gardiner I use to go check. He could see no visible problem. After I sent this post,I managed to find many posts relative to this issue on this website. I gather that our heating problem results from the failure of the ...
by daddyhominum
Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:56 pm
Forum: All Other HVAC Questions
Topic: Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven
Replies: 10
Views: 6257

Forced air heat distribution changed to uneven

Hi all; I'm a newbie to this forum and this is my first post. I first posted to another forum and their experts sent me here! We bought a 1991 1400 f2 double wide Dartmouth by Moduline(Penticton,BC) and this is our third winter in it. We are on the Saanich Peninsula near Sidney,BC. The electric furn...