Generally I do not find it cool with the fan running continuously. Drawing air off of the floor and redistributing it tends to keep the air from layering where it gets cool down where we are sitting and warm up nearer the roof.
I also have a ventilator running steadily dumping fresh outside air into the air return of the furnace so, the furnace fan also mixes and distributes this through the rooms of the house. When the fan runs on demand, I find we get blasts of heat when the thermostat is demanding and the intermittent starting and stopping of the fan and it's attendant noise I find more annoying than just getting used to the constant background sound. All personal taste I am sure and maybe if we weren't built so close to the floor we wouldn't notice the layering so much. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan & Terrie Robbins To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:11 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Furnace Working Too Much? Dale, I keep the fan running continuously at times in the summer with AC but I find in the winter the air seems cooler in the house with the fan running all the time. Do you find the same? Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Furnace Working Too Much? Hi Claudia, Is your furnace still running continuously? I have my furnace set up to operate the fan continuously for a number of reasons but mostly to keep the temperature more even. As someone else already said, the fan may run continuously with the fire coming on and off until the house reaches the desired temperature. If the furnace is under sized or the home inadequately insulated or particularly air leaky then the furnace may well be working very hard and may even be unable to meet the demand for the current temperature. You have a problem only if it continues to operate beyond the desired temperature as selected by the thermostat. Still, I would be interested if it did catch up. ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:28 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Furnace Working Too Much? Hi, It's bitterly cold here today; probably didn't get past 15 degrees. When we leave, we turn our talking thermostat down to 68, but since we got home, we turned it up to 70; that was at about 4 PM this afternoon. Could the timer have gone out or something? The furnace hasn't turned off once! It's set at 70, and the thermostat also says it's set to 70! Claudia Join either of my groups; the first is for visually-impaired women, while the other is for people wishing to discuss homemaking issues. [email protected] [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
