Vent To Attic

[larsenc523]

Hello,

Looking for some advice. I have a music studio at home and needed to isolate my recording environment from fan noise from my computers. I've rellocated my 3 computers into my studio closet and installed a fan which draws cool air from the basement (grill at the bottom of the closet) and vents it out into another room. Now it's really annoying to hang out in that other room because it's a little too noisy.

My question is this: Is it a bad idea to vent this fan to the attic? Would the transfer of warm-ish air from the house to the attic have some unintendid consequence that I can't think of?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Luc

[m Ransley]

In winter yes it will conene into moisture on the wood. In summer no.

[Joseph Meehan]

There is the potential problem of moisture in the winter. How much of a problem depends on a number of factors like your local weather, attic ventilation and the amount of moisture coming into that room from the basement.

I would suggest venting it through the attic to the outside.

[larsenc523]

Thanks for both of your respsonse. And quick. I knew that something didn't sound quite right about venting directly into the attic. I live in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada (just outside of Toronto) so it does cold in winter. I was originaly going to place the fan in the attic and vent out my eve troughs but when I went up there I saw that there wasn't much room to work. I think I'll just have to resign myself to doing it that way. Thanks again for the advice.

Luc

[Chuck Yerkes]

larsenc523 wrote: > Looking for some advice. I have a music studio at home and needed to isolate > my recording environment from fan noise from my computers. I've rellocated > my 3 computers into my studio closet and installed a fan which draws cool > air from the basement (grill at the bottom of the closet) and vents it out > into another room. Now it's really annoying to hang out in that other room > because it's a little too noisy. >

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