Posted by Rob Young I have to disagree with your statement. There are two ways to handle running the main supply ducting for a forced air furnace on this plan and neither has such a negative impact as you are trying portray. The first method (used with open-web wood trusses as spec'd on our plans) would be to co-ordinate with your floor truss supplier to have them manufacture an opening in the truss to allow for the main supply ducts to fit between the webbing. After you reach a point past the stairwell opening, this is no longer required as you can then run the main ducts parallel with the trusses in the space between them and run your individual supply lines thru the webbing of the trusses. The second option (primarily used with I-Joists) does force you to drop the ceiling but not to the degree you have stated. You would simply create a dropped bulkhead over the kitchen cabinets along the outside wall to suit the main ducts. From there you can then run your individual supply lines up into the joist space space over. This is not that intrusive as normal kitchen cabinets are mounted at 7 feet so therefore this bulkhead would only take away from the space over them not the entire kitchen ceiling. Rob Young
on 10/4/2006, 12:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Series H 1512"
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