woodbutcher
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We bought a house in town last year. The furnace, the water heater, and the cooktop use natural gas. The AC is slightly undersized to allow it to remove more humidity while it cools, but this summer has been rough. We had quite a few days above 100 degrees, and the unit could not keep up. It's 10 years old, so it may be showing its age, too. When the remodel was done, we had can lights placed in the ceiling throughout the house. The previous owner had accumulated more than a foot of loose-fill insulation in the joist spaces in the fifty years he owned the house, but it looked like a sow's bed after the electricians were finished. So, I had spray-foam applied to the underside of the roof deck and asked for full encapsulation. They vacuumed out the loose-fill. I hope to have a new HVAC system and water heater in place before next summer, but I have a question about where to obtain combustion air for the burners. It's a pier-and-beam house, so is there anything wrong with getting it from the crawl space? There will still be flues going thru the roof for the exhaust.
Butch
Butch