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

Even if you spill something, just take a cloth and clean it up. It’s not a big deal.

As soon as you can ensure an air gap of a few centimeters (inches), you can place whatever you want there.

Shiny86 schrieb:

Otherwise, there would be a draft if you sit on the sofa underneath, right?

It would help if the furniture were marked in their final positions. But there probably won't be much of a draft... at most in party mode, but then it doesn’t really matter. The controlled residential ventilation system is neither an air conditioner nor a fan. Under normal operation, you only feel slight air movement right next to the vent, which in your case would be on the ceiling. From there, the air spreads horizontally and then falls downward.

Shiny86 schrieb:

Hanging the ceiling on the upper floor is not an option for me. Can floor outlets also be installed in the dining and living rooms? Then you can place a sofa with legs. I need a sofa with legs anyway for my robot vacuum.

That can be done, but it will be more expensive to install. I would leave it as is: ceiling/wall vents on the ground floor and floor/wall vents on the upper floor.

Shiny86 schrieb:

And in the kitchen, a wall outlet, for example? Or do you have to use the same type throughout one floor?

You can easily mix them. Just make sure the pipe diameters and airflow volumes are compatible.

Shiny86 schrieb:

I'm quite overwhelmed. Visually, the valves don’t look good at all, but they have to be placed somewhere. What’s the most elegant way to handle this?

In our case, the specialist decided where to put the outlets—not an insurance agent, auditor, or a teacher. Later on, you hardly notice the outlets or anything else on the ceiling anymore.

Where do you have yours? Why don’t you see them anymore? Is it because people got used to them?

Yes, over time you simply stop noticing many things because they just become normal. Unless you rearrange the furniture and so on, then some things will stand out again.

Shiny86 schrieb:

Where did you put yours? Why don’t you see it anymore? Is it because we’ve gotten used to it?

Yes, exactly. People stop noticing something unimportant like the ceiling. During the day, our line of sight tends to be more downward, towards the floor. Most people simply don’t care. We just discussed this among women in relation to renovation, ventilation, support beams, etc. It’s really just not important... Even guests: ceiling lights are usually only noticed in new builds or by enthusiasts, but even then, not for long.

Just don’t spend a thousand thoughts on the ideal (visual) positioning of the ceiling outlets, only to realize later that you forgot to include the smoke detectors in the planning.