ᐅ Ducting enclosures for centralized mechanical ventilation systems with heat recovery
Created on: 30 Apr 2016 14:02
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jx7
Hello everyone!
Our construction manager just sent us a sketch showing that there will be bulkheads both in the floor and ceiling areas of the cloakroom. Attached are the sketch and the ground floor plan. We feel that such bulkheads would greatly detract from the cloakroom space and make it less functional. It also seems strange to us that such bulkheads would be accepted in a new build. I can’t imagine that ventilation couldn’t be planned without these bulkheads. This is something you usually only see in older buildings where ventilation systems were installed retrospectively.
Our question to the building experts in this forum:
Are such bulkheads common and simply an unavoidable downside of having a central controlled ventilation system, or do you consider this poor planning that we shouldn’t accept? How is it arranged in your homes?
Best regards
jx7
Our construction manager just sent us a sketch showing that there will be bulkheads both in the floor and ceiling areas of the cloakroom. Attached are the sketch and the ground floor plan. We feel that such bulkheads would greatly detract from the cloakroom space and make it less functional. It also seems strange to us that such bulkheads would be accepted in a new build. I can’t imagine that ventilation couldn’t be planned without these bulkheads. This is something you usually only see in older buildings where ventilation systems were installed retrospectively.
Our question to the building experts in this forum:
Are such bulkheads common and simply an unavoidable downside of having a central controlled ventilation system, or do you consider this poor planning that we shouldn’t accept? How is it arranged in your homes?
Best regards
jx7
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Bieber08151 May 2016 21:14jx7 schrieb:
Are such duct soffits common and simply an unavoidable nuisance that owners of a central mechanical ventilation system have to accept, or do you consider this poor planning that shouldn’t be accepted? What is it like in your home? A more detailed plan (working or construction plan) would be better, but it is possible without one.
In our case, you can see pipes and silencers “surface mounted” below and on the ceiling of the utility room. In the rest of the house, all components are integrated into the ceiling or within a wall, except for one pipe in the bathroom where the wall was too thin. If we had a detailed plan, this would have been noticed and possibly a solution found. Now there is a soffit, which in our bathroom hardly causes any disturbance (there are other bulkheads and soffits anyway). Anyway...
I consider the sketch from your post to be an example of poor planning. Is the blue line a ventilation duct? Why are there so many 90° bends? Why aren’t silencers and distributors mounted on the basement ceiling? That is usually acceptable in the basement, right? Then there would be no need for soffits upstairs. I do not understand the area around the ground floor ceiling/upper floor floor structure…