Using Attic Heat

Also the devices have benefits like protecting your roof from damage which might be brought about by the heat and humid moving around the attic thus damaging the insulations and.

Using attic heat.

I am in the process of finishing a large bonus room in my ohio home. You need to use short ducts and pump the air directly from the attic into the space you want to heat. Using attic heat to heat home. If the air passes thru 200 of duct at a speed high enough to pump any significant amount of air into the other areas of the house it isn t in the duct long enough to warm up.

Otherwise you will run into the issues you mentioned. Over the period system performance data has been logged and proves the huge benefits of using attic heat especially from the perspectives. There is an ongoing interest in taking advantage of high attic temperatures for things like. Like you i have wondered if attic heat could be used to heat my home.

Two prototype attic heat harvester systems designed to use attic heat were installed tested and enhanced over a period of two years the first system was installed in balerno near edinburgh scotland and the second in toledo ohio usa. But by adding powered attic fans you will draw more air into the attic. While it does help to reduce the heat in your attic putting these fans in your attic costs more because of the loss of conditioned air. If you had a thermostat in the house and in the attic so that it would only run when you need heat and the attic is hot.

My priorities have shifted over the past 7 years and i have yet to install any type of mechanism for transferring heat from the solar attic to the home below. What about using an attic fan in reverse to draw hot air out of the attic and into the house. Turn excess attic heat into hotwater. Using attic heat recorded attic temperatures.

One static vent style is the turbine vent which uses wind to power its enclosed fan all it takes is a light breeze to rotate the blades and suck heat out of the attic view example on the home. Powered attic ventilator fans designed to cool your attic by drawing the hot and humid air out of the attic and bring in a flow of chilly air from outside. I was wondering if i could heat the water in my swimming pool using the heat in the house s attic and i started messing about with a large s heatsink s thermal battery. Using insulation only keeps the attic s heat from traveling through your home.

The air you lose from the attic is then drawn into your. Solar attic for heating. The water for my hotwater heater has to pass through it and pick. You place the fans on the gable walls of your attic.

However i have experimented with simply installing a fan in the attic access hatch and blowing attic air down into the home when the attic is warmer that the house. It would need a damper to keep from losing heat when not in use.