ᐅ Controlled residential ventilation: Placement of supply and exhaust air in my designs

Hello,

could you please review our plans regarding the supply and exhaust air locations?

I’m quite overwhelmed. Visually, the vents don’t look good at all, but they have to go somewhere. What is the most elegant way to solve this?

Do you think this layout is good?

At first glance, the supply air position in the living room (ground floor open plan, left side) stands out. The sofa will be placed directly underneath it...

Also, on the upper floor, there are three supply air vents on the floor. I find that rather unattractive and I’m concerned it might be inconvenient for cleaning.

Is it possible to simply change these floor vents on the upper floor to ceiling vents, or would that involve significant additional costs?

I would appreciate your feedback.

Thank you in advance!

The placement of ceiling vents depends on the height of the room, as they are installed within a suspended ceiling.

We had floor vents. Cleaning is super easy. You just remove the grate, and inside at the bottom, there is a kind of tray that you vacuum out, that’s it. Now we have ceiling vents, which don’t look as good, and we almost wish we had the floor outlets back.

T_im_Norden schrieb:

Ceiling vents upstairs depend on the room height, as they are installed in a suspended ceiling.

In our case, there is a core drill hole through the ceiling, and the flat ducts are installed below the screed. This doesn’t make the ceiling vents any more visually appealing, but it means we don’t have to install a suspended ceiling.

Unfortunately, our general contractor is not willing to lay them directly on the precast concrete ceiling and cast them into the concrete. He finds it too risky regarding structural stability.

Personally, I wouldn’t have wanted floor outlets. That would limit my options for arranging furniture again.

OWLer schrieb:

It is too critical due to the structural engineering.

What did the structural engineer say?

Isn’t there exhaust ventilation missing on the upper floor, or did I overlook something?