On 4 Sep 2003 11:04:27 -0700, someone wrote:


... most of the rooms in the house are
between 76-79 degrees with the exception of one room which is usually
80-83 degrees.

There should be some provision to balance the ductwork to some degree.
Is the room in question at the end of a long run, or just not enough
registers ("vents" to you). You may be able to reduce the flow to all
the other rooms so as to make (relatively) more flow to this room,
etc.

... He also
commented something about my home not having an energy efficient
design. Is this my problem? The builder and his a/c company --they did
the initial design--should have figured that out from the beginning.

"Efficiency" and balance are TOTALLY different things. You bought the
house, so it its degree of efficiency *IS* your problem, so long as it
meets minimum codes which it is 99% likely it does as they are, well,
minumal. If you wanted a higher degree of energy efficiency you
should have specified this and/or had the design evaluated for this.
You may not have liked a more efficient design - the number, size &
placement of windows, rooms, etc. Evidently that was not a concern
to you before, so its is way way to late to demand any different now.


The Ac guy I think noticed that I was getting annoyed and said they
they would study the vent design to see if something could be done. He
said something about routing a vent directly into this room.
I'm pretty frustrated and need to know what to ask for....

Wow, another duct, that sure seems like it would help, and is more
than I expected them to offer you. What are you so frustrated about?
Sounds like they are doing what needs to be done.

-v.

On 6 Sep 2003 12:24:40 -0700, someone wrote:

...Hopefully, the problem will be solved next week.

There there, so you didn't have to get all bent out of shape about
what to ask for and whose fault or responsibility certain things were.
You asked that the room in question not be too hot, that was enough.

I wish people would give things a chance before they blow a gasket on
speculation. Incompetence or error is encountered more frequently
than evil.

I hope the proposed solution does work, a new duct direct to the area
that is lacking sounds good to me. That the existing duct didn't
deliver as much air as they had hoped sounds like an honest and pretty
straightforward explanation to me, never mind why it coulda shoulda
and whose "fault" that is, it didn't work out so they seem to be
fixing it, sometimes ideas don't work out. It would take more
heartache to figure out who or what to blame than to just fix it, and
isn't that what is wanted anyway?

good luck with your new home.

-v.