Heating small coop via house

[Bear Foot Farm]

Quote: The basement is heated and cooled, so most of the heat IS coming from the heating system.
Whether or not it's directly ducted is not relevant
Quote: The AIR in the basement is being blown out at a rate of 50 CFM, or 3000 CF per hour

That is slighty less than the amount of air in a 20 X 20 room EACH HOUR

That air has to be replaced, and any incoming COLD air will end up cycling through the heating system and the entire house, unless of course there is a basement window open to let air in

It's simple physics

When you vent a given volume of air OUT of an enclosed space, you have to eventually allow an EQUAL amount back IN to equalize the pressures

 

[hosspak]

The basement is heated and cooled, so most of the heat IS coming from the heating system.
Whether or not it's directly ducted is not relevant
The AIR in the basement is being blown out at a rate of 50 CFM, or 3000 CF per hour

That is slighty less than the amount of air in a 20 X 20 room EACH HOUR

That air has to be replaced, and any incoming COLD air will end up cycling through the heating system and the entire house, unless of course there is a basement window open to let air in

It's simple physics

When you vent a given volume of air OUT of an enclosed space, you have to eventually allow an EQUAL amount back IN to equalize the pressures

Ok, one of us clearly has too much time on their hands, lol.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

LOL
That may be true, as I've often said the same thing myself

The physics is still the same

 

[hosspak]

LOL
That may be true, as I've often said the same thing myself

The physics is still the same

Semantics, the amount of change in energy usage would be insignificant and if it makes chris607 feel better, than money well spent. And nobody really cares about the physics anyway...

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Semantics, the amount of change in energy usage would be insignificant and if it makes chris607 feel better, than money well spent. And nobody really cares about the physics anyway...

The "change in energy usage" would be the amount required to reheat a 2000 SQ FT house TWICE each night.

If you don't "care" about the physics, you don't care about the facts

"Feeling better" has no relation to actual costs, which is all I'm talking about