Attic Furnace Room

Furnaces located in an attic area shall comply with the diagram on the reverse side of this page.

Attic furnace room. Attics are for the most part unconditioned meaning a leak here could significantly reduce your home s overall efficiency. Otherwise you will be starving your furnace for combustion air. If the closet is next to one of the bathrooms as it often is this gives you a nice remodeling opportunity. However in homes with a larger laundry room the furnace may be placed there.

Can you put your air conditioning unit in the attic with blown in insulation. When you decide to trade in your room air conditioner for central air you ll have decisions to make including where. The 1st floor basement furnace is in the basement. The 2nd floor furnace is in the attic.

The downstairs furnace has a conventional slide in out filter. Attic hvac units are potentially inefficient the biggest complaint about attic hvac units is that they don t really make sense. 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. There s usually nothing up in an attic aside from some stored items so a furnace won t take up useful space.

An attic furnace is closer to the upper stories of a multi level home. 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. One possible solution if you have an atmospherically vented furnace is to install a fan in a can wired to the burner. In homes with limited space the furnace can be installed in the attic.

This annoys me greatly because i ve never seen the furnace as it is very hard to get to. For reasons we will review below furnaces and other major appliances cannot coexist in too limited of a space. You can t build this type of room in your attic unless your furnace has a sealed combustion burner with ducted combustion air. The biggest advantage of having an attic furnace is that it s a space saver.

Air ducts lose a fair amount of heat through leakage so shorter lengths are more efficient. The upstairs system has two filters located in pull down vents in the ceiling and very easy to access.