On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:43:22 -0400, mm
wrote:


However, the second and most important reason why there are not cold
air returns in the basement is one of safety.

The ONLY cold air return is my house is in my basement. The basement

I was wrong about this. There is an air return 2 1/2 floors directly
above the one near the basement floor. (for heating and cooling, if in
practice it works that way.) Both grills are in the stairwell, one
near the ceiling on the second floor and the other near the floor in
the triangular space below the top half of the basement stairs.


has two rooms and the return is on the other side of the wall from the
furnace, and the door is 3/4 of the way along the wall from the
furnace, so it's almost as far as it can be, but it's still in the
basement.