HVAC Equipment Basics - How to Select the Right Ductwork for Your House

If you are the lucky builder of your own house, then you are probably looking at a lot of different options for acquiring lifting services, building the MEP systems, and HVAC system of your home as well. In this blog post we will be looking at the HVAC equipment in general, and the selection of the right kind of ductwork for your needs in particular. 

In all likelihood you have a basic understanding of what your home needs in terms of HVAC equipment in order to be fully functional, but you also need experts to make sure the job is perfectly done. When it comes to sizing the ductwork required in your home, a specialist will have to look at a large variety and number of factors in other to gain the best estimate of what your needs will be in your home.

Contractors use certain guides when they are trying to size the ductwork in a residential home, because it is essential that they get it right the first time. It is important to size your HVAC ductwork for air conditioning purposes rather than heating purposes, since cooling the indoors requires more CFMs than heating it up. Of course, this is in cases where you want your HVAC equipment to provide both heating and cooling functions while sharing the same ductwork.

As mentioned before, there are a large number of factors that are taken into consideration for this estimation:

1. Colour of the roof

2. The amount of shade enjoyed by the house

3. R values of the selected insulation materials

4. Type and quality of materials used during construction

5. Average temperature of the location in which your home is being built

6. Size of the home

7. Number of people expected to occupy the home 

8. Area occupied by openings, aka windows and doors

9. The construction materials and insulation materials used for these windows and doors

10. Size of the kitchen

The more variables your estimator looks at, the more accurate the result will be. This will ensure that you are provided with the utmost in comfort and efficiency in your new home.