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I’d like to build a ducting system to actively push air from one room to another. Is that a thing? (self.homeimprovement)

submitted 6 months ago by ch00f to c/homeimprovement

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So my home office is in our basement while my wife’s is in a finished attic space. We have a mini split system, but it has to be all heat or all cooling, and many days it’s cold in my office, but hot in my wife’s office.

Thanks to a defunct chimney, I have a pretty decent path from the attic to the basement that could easily accommodate some kind of ducting.

I’d like to make a system that can push air from my office to hers or vice versa as needed. I think this would really help the house in general as cold air tends to pool in the basement.

I’ve seen plenty of ducting booster fans, but I’d like something with a speed (or at least direction) control accessible from the outside.

Does something like this exist? It would need to force air through maybe 30-40’ of ducting.

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[–] reddfugee 4 points 6 months ago

I have wondered the same thing, the front of my house (where the living room and gaming PC are) gets a lot of sun so it is always a few degrees warmer than the back bedroom. My wife would rather melt than put a hole in the ceiling so I have not been allowed to try to fix it lol.