I have a tight furnace room for gas furnace and hot water. It has two 8 inch pipes for feed air. Question: Could I dump my outgoing air from an ERV into that room? Two concerns: moisture would be higher in the room and now I have a pathway back wards that would allow CO to possibly head into the house..
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You want to put the outlet side of the ERV back inside the house?
Maybe I'm not understanding, but this doesn't seem to make sense. Why do you want to do this?
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
Not exactly. The furnace room is a sealed small room with large makeup air pipes, 8" each and then the flues for the water tank and the furnace. I was just musing about whether the available openings could be used to dump air, so as not to cut duct work to the outside of the house. The inside of the furnace room is, in essence "outside"http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
Wouldn't the air from inside have more moisture in it? That might be a problem.
That was indeed one concernhttp://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
If you review your instructions for the ERV I think you'll find that there are general 'rules' or guidelines regarding the relationship between intake and exhaust locations, and I think it's probably not a good idea to do this from an atmospheric pressuring basis - ie low (intake) vs. high (exhaust into house).
Jeff