Attic Furnace Room

The biggest advantage of having an attic furnace is that it s a space saver.

Attic furnace room.

You can t build this type of room in your attic unless your furnace has a sealed combustion burner with ducted combustion air. Otherwise you will be starving your furnace for combustion air. If the attic and roof framing is a pre. Can you put your air conditioning unit in the attic with blown in insulation.

This annoys me greatly because i ve never seen the furnace as it is very hard to get to. One possible solution if you have an atmospherically vented furnace is to install a fan in a can wired to the burner. However in homes with a larger laundry room the furnace may be placed there. You ll also free up a closet.

For reasons we will review below furnaces and other major appliances cannot coexist in too limited of a space. Attics are for the most part unconditioned meaning a leak here could significantly reduce your home s overall efficiency. The downstairs furnace has a conventional slide in out filter. If the closet is next to one of the bathrooms as it often is this gives you a nice remodeling opportunity.

It will not require long lengths of pipe to deliver heat to the rooms as a basement furnace does. An attic furnace is closer to the upper stories of a multi level home. 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. The 1st floor basement furnace is in the basement.

Furnaces located in an attic area shall comply with the diagram on the reverse side of this page. There s usually nothing up in an attic aside from some stored items so a furnace won t take up useful space. 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. The 2nd floor furnace is in the attic.

When you decide to trade in your room air conditioner for central air you ll have decisions to make including where. Attic hvac units are potentially inefficient the biggest complaint about attic hvac units is that they don t really make sense.