Thread: How not to do an air return

This house used to have a floor furnace. New gas furnace was installed in the garage and the floor opening used for the air return. Looks nice until you investigate a little closer.

Floor opening was covered and one side of the wall opening was also covered. If you did not look closely and did not remove the cover this one would be easily missed.

I thinks that the remaining opening is not large enough for adequate airflow. Toss in a dirty filter and its even better.

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I've seen some interesting return ideas in some of the older homes here, but that beats anything I've run across. Yikes