How much conditioned airflow can be diverted when tapping into an existing HVAC system to add a room?

Derek ColeGM, Simmons One Hour Heating & Air · AI HVAC Answers

Transform Your Home Comfort: Tips for Adding a Room to Your HVAC System

29 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Derek Cole explains how adding a room to your HVAC system can pull 200-400 CFM of air away from the rest of your home, making both the new space and existing rooms uncomfortable unless you rebalance or upgrade the system.

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Approximately 200–400 CFM (cubic feet per minute).

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That room is probably a challenge to keep comfortable. And then it might also affect the whole home in the comfort because you're tapping into. You're tapping into a existing system so that room's not be comfortable. And then the whole home in turn, is not be comfortable because now you're, you know, putting, you know, 2 to 400 CFM of air that was once in the home to that extra room that you're adding onto us.