Does your home heating unit (forced air oil heater) control/work with your central air conditioner?

Posted by admin on August 24th, 2009 filed in Alternative Power


Does your home heating unit (forced air oil heater) control/work with your central air conditioner?

We're having some problems cooling our house. My husband says it's because we need a new heater unit (forced air oil heater) and it's not blowing the air. I say it's becuase we need to reposition ducts that were covered or disconnected when we redid the kitchen and the house is so hot because the sun beats in the sliding glass doors all afternoon and the only working vent comes out behind the stove and then the hot air goes all through the house and the remaining working vents (3) can't keep the house cool (it's a small house, but there should be 6-10 working vents). He says air should be blowing quite rapidly out the vents. I've never experienced a central air system where air came flying out the vents, it usually slowly flows out. I know we need to replace our heater by winter, but I think a set of blinds for the window and fixing the ducts and vents is the answer for now (and cheaper, too!). Can anyone give me an opinion from a heating/air conditioning professional standpoint?

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2 Responses to “Does your home heating unit (forced air oil heater) control/work with your central air conditioner?”

  1. admin Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
    Well, I'm not a pro, but I do know something of passive solar. You are right to block the sunlight as this causes heat in the room. My A/C blows hard from it's vents. I currently have a heat pump and it does work with the same control unit as the heater, but it is separate.. if you understand what I mean.

    I'd add more vents, you can't have too many of those!!

  2. admin Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
    Sorry,but 3 vents aint gonna cut it. You need to fix the damage to the duct you did when you "re-did" the kitchen.No,the air coming from the vents should not be blasting out of the vents unless you have a high velocity system which is not the case here. Most times the fan speed for a/c is at a medium speed(being low,med and high,high will be for heat,some manuf. take it a step further w/ med-high speeds but those are newer units usually and not yours I'm sure).Sounds to me like there could be a few things causing this. If your furnace is in need of replacement,Why? Is there a problem with the fan/blower?Does the fan even come on?Fix the vents you disconnected and as you stated ,put up some window shades to limit the heat load entering the house. ****TACT H*** You're crazy fan speed is VERY important,if your fan is on LOW the evaporator will freeze up not having enough airflow across the coil. Go back to school !!

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