Attic Furnace Room
The downstairs furnace has a conventional slide in out filter.
Attic furnace room. Attic furnace passageway and service area electrical requirement appliance in the attic attic furnace access passageway and platform access opening and an unobstructed passage way to the appliance furnace in attic area must be provided and be adequate in size to allow removal of the largest appliance installed. An attic furnace is closer to the upper stories of a multi level home. If the closet is next to one of the bathrooms as it often is this gives you a nice remodeling opportunity. There s usually nothing up in an attic aside from some stored items so a furnace won t take up useful space.
This annoys me greatly because i ve never seen the furnace as it is very hard to get to. Additionally if the attic and roof is conventionally framed ceiling joist under the location of the fau unit shall be doubled with a minimum 2x6 joists. Air ducts lose a fair amount of heat through leakage so shorter lengths are more efficient. The 2nd floor furnace is in the attic.
The 1st floor basement furnace is in the basement. However in homes with a larger laundry room the furnace may be placed there. Furnaces located in an attic area shall comply with the diagram on the reverse side of this page. The upstairs system has two filters located in pull down vents in the ceiling and very easy to access.
In homes with limited space the furnace can be installed in the attic. One possible solution if you have an atmospherically vented furnace is to install a fan in a can wired to the burner. If the attic and roof framing is a pre. When you decide to trade in your room air conditioner for central air you ll have decisions to make including where.
It will not require long lengths of pipe to deliver heat to the rooms as a basement furnace does. Can you put your air conditioning unit in the attic with blown in insulation. Attic hvac units are potentially inefficient the biggest complaint about attic hvac units is that they don t really make sense. The biggest advantage of having an attic furnace is that it s a space saver.
Otherwise you will be starving your furnace for combustion air. You ll also free up a closet.