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Originally Posted by deezrvz
Yeah I tried taping the way you suggested down a ways into the duct which just runs a short bit as metal then they just let the wood channel carry the air after that. I ran a borescope down in and there are big gaps where the wood butts up against things. I pulled out the bottom drawers in the bedroom closet and saw that the flexible ducts from the furnace just had these little short screws holding them down and no seal so I foil taped them down too. Good heat comes out of the one vent exiting the lower dresser. I'm guessing not having dedicated ducting and using just the wood framing to carry the air is the reason. They are using cheaper than dryer vent material. If I can find a way to fish some flexible ducting end-to-end it would probably be shweet.
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I'm on a short trip and it was in the 30's last night so I had the furnace running some. In the Omni the furnace is in the far left rear under the wardrobe. Previous inspection and cleaning in that area showed the furnace has 4 outlets, 1 goes to a round register/outlet in the BR and 3 go down to I supposed to the floor ducting which has 3 rectangular floor registers forward in the living areas. The bedroom floor was very warm, not a localized narrow path going forward to the floor registers but a wide area. The 3 front registers got much less warm air and especially the most forward one. The floor certainly wasn't warm like the BR. I earlier tried to use the borescope in the hall and bath ducting but couldn't tell much. Confusing ducting?? if any. I also made a baffle for the shop vac and vacuumed vast quantities of sawdust and debris out.
Your supposition that the heating ducting is no more than just the floor framing is likely correct. Doesn't look like there is any remedy for the issue except running a couple space heaters in the LR areas. That means either shore power our using the generator. The BR got very warm since the heater is back there, the obvious leakage into the floor area and the sensor for the thermostat by the big window in the right front side. Terrible design and execution. I'd hate to be in this in temps much below freezing.
On the positive side when I got up the BR floor was toasty warm on my feet.