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❄️🔥 Stop Wasting Heat: How to Balance Your Vents for Better Airflow 🎙 · Shafer Heating and Cooling Service Repair Podcast

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But the first thing we want to look at is just overall, once again,
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the simple things. I like to keep things simple. Are the registers all opened?
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But not even just that. Are they adjusted properly? So all the way open isn't
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always the correct or the best option, right?
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Because those registers, that's why your suppliers have dampers on them.
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You can adjust them or returns don't. So we always want free return coming back.
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The supplies can be adjusted to regulate the final amount of airs coming into a room.
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Air is lazy. It's like a lot of us, right? A lot of people. It's lazy.
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It takes the path to least resistance.
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And so that air, as it goes down the duct stream, gets farther away from the furnace.
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It gets less and less and less. It's going to leave the first vents possible.
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Oftentimes you'll find registers dampened down a little bit more closer to the
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equipment and opened up a little bit more as they get farther away from the
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equipment to help keep the pressure up.