Poorly designed ductwork - need opinions!
I have a fifth wheel with a heating problem. The duct feeding my bedroom is basically made of a sheet of 1/2" foam board taped across two aluminum floor joists. Both ends are capped off with foam bo...
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phillyg wrote:The existing flex pipe is too short to reach the duct (by many feet). I was just going to use a rigid pipe to bridge that gap. I'll definitely use aluminum tape on every seam I find.
Good idea but no need to use round galvanized; flex pipe will do it, and while you're under there I recommend you wrap aluminum sticky tape around every joint you can reach.
Sooner or later I'm going to have to go through the entire trailer and fix the terrible job the factory did on all the heating runs.
I'm also wondering if the pipe feeding the bedroom vent is unnecessarily large. Maybe a smaller diameter pipe would lend the system a little more balance instead of roasting us in our sleep.
