Worst of all, it sets off the smoke detectors in every room and scares the dog to death
Whoever designed this house isn’t very wise. Or, they have no idea what they’re doing in the kitchen. Either way, their oversight is drastically affecting our air quality, air temperature, energy bills, and sanity. you see, I live in a house with a couple of other people and we are all healthy eaters. This means, we enjoy cooking our own food at home rather than eating out whenever possible. You could say that we have a little house of healthy shifts, and that would be fairly accurate. Recently, however, we’re getting tired of using the kitchen because of all of the trouble that it causes. Either the construction company or the HVAC company that originally set up the heating and cooling system in this house did a very bad job. The air vents are all located in places that make no sense, so the airflow is inefficient and incohesive with thermodynamics. The thermostat is located in a strange spot all the way at one end of the house, instead of a central location where it could monitor the air temperature more evenly. Worst of all, for some reason the central HVAC air handling return vent is located in the kitchen, just over the stove top. Normally, this is where a ventilation fan would be so you could clear smoky air out of the kitchen. Instead, we have an air return vent in this position so our hot and smoky air can be effectively sucked up by the air return vent and distributed evenly through the HVAC system. Worst of all, it sets off the smoke detectors in every room and scares the dog to death. Thanks to this air return, our house is always warmer and louder than necessary, and the AC unit is battling to keep up.