Floor Vs Ceiling Vents

Ceiling ducts are more visible than floor ducts and harder to camouflage.

Floor vs ceiling vents. Floor ducts for heating. Floor wall and ceiling registers each have their own strengths and weaknesses that make them suited for different situations. They can be camouflaged with decorative vent covers that match carpeting tile or hardwood flooring. This isnt the main concern however.

This disperses warmth evenly throughout the room from floor to ceiling. As for pros and cons of either. For homes where heating is a primary concern floor collection is advisable to pull from. Is there even a difference between hvac supply registers grilles in the floor or the ceiling.

Typically a rolling guide or a lever on one side of the vent the damper opens or closes access to the air duct for airflow management. Floor heat ducts are not as visible as ceiling ducts. If theyre in the floor youll want your return in the ceiling. These principles should also be applied when locating return vents the vents that pull air from the room to supply your hvac system.

Air registers have slatted openings in the floor wall or ceiling that a user can control using an adjustable damper. How air registers work. According to the natural laws of convection heated air entering through floor ducts rises. Heat entering through ceiling ducts however naturally tends to accumulate at the ceiling warming the room from top to bottom more slowly than floor ducts.

If the registers are in the ceiling you will want your return low. They all use ceiling vents. You can find floor registers in a variety of materials styles and finishes so you can incorporate them as a decorative element that also blends. Unfortunately several of these vents are rusting underground.

My furnace guy tells me that here in oklahoma floor vents are no longer allowed in new homes. As a general rule ceiling mounted vents offer better cooling potential while floor vents offer superior heat delivery. Ceiling ducts don t hog existing or potential closet wall or ceiling space making an interesting or worse unsightly decoration and ceiling vents don t present the decorative dilemma floor vents often due forcing furniture to strange locations to prevent blockages in airflow. Taking into consideration the cubic feet per minute of air needed for the room to maintain a comfortable temperature and the throw or coverage of the area.

For cooling ceiling would be better. Either type of register ceiling or floor can be used for this as long as the need for the area. The placement of your return is. Ceiling ducts cannot be used with radiant heating systems which generate heat from the floors.