Comments on: Five Minute Finances #11: Open All Your Vents In The Winter http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rosie http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-682493 Rosie Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:29:08 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-682493 would this work the same for air conditioning [cooling?] i find that my ac is colder in my kitchen than my bedroom… so i closed the vent in my kitchen. do you think that will help? or hurt?

]]> By: V http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-41227 V Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:31:38 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-41227 This “phenomenon” occurs because by closing off the vents or just the entire rooms a temperature gradient is created. Now the warm air that is circulating in the rest of your house will “want” to go to the colder rooms in order that the temperature in the house will be in equilibrium, thus the colder rooms get a warmer and the parts of the house that you are using and want to be warm are cooled down.

]]> By: Daisy http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10996 Daisy Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:27:25 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10996 I can attest to this one. We have electric baseboard heat, not a furnace, but it works out the same. Last month I decided to try closing doors to the rooms we’re not using and turning the heat off in those rooms. Imagine my surprise when the power bill came today and it was increased over last year’s bill at this time (a much colder year, btw) by 15%. Yikes! Wish I’d come across this post a month ago!

]]> By: akl168 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10666 akl168 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:13:58 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10666 …and don’t forget to change the air filter in your furnance.

]]> By: Dave http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10658 Dave Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:39:04 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10658 Strangely enough I follow what your folks do, but take it a step farther. Currently living in an old 3 story townhome. Thermostat is on the middle floor and master bedroom is on the 3rd. If I was to open up the vents on the 1st as well as keep that door open the temperature difference btwn 2nd and 3rd jumps about 15 degrees. By closing of the lower part of the house (which I don’t use as much as I could admittedly) the temp difference btwn 2nd and 3rd is only 5-10 degrees. I’ve not considered what that does to the energy bill, admittedly. I’m more concerned about sleeping through the night.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10645 Brandon Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:32:14 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/14/five-minute-finances-11-open-all-your-vents-in-the-winter/#comment-10645 Could this also be because your parents have cold air returns in the house?

Instead of pulling warm air from the house to heat again, it is pulling unheated air from those rooms and trying to heat it to the right temp?

While getting bids for our old house, this comment came up when we said we were not going to heat certain areas of the house to save money.

Take care!

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