Controlled residential ventilation: positioning of supply and exhaust air in my designs

Even if you spill something. Then you just take a cloth and clean it up. That’s not a drama.

As soon as you can ensure an air gap of a few centimeters. You can put whatever you want there.

Otherwise, there would be a draft if you sit on the sofa underneath, right?

It would help if the furniture were drawn in their final positions. But there really won’t be much of a draft... at most in party mode, but then it doesn’t matter anyway. The controlled residential ventilation is not an air conditioner nor a fan. In normal operation, you feel a slight air movement only in the immediate vicinity of the valve, and these would be on your ceiling. Here the air then spreads horizontally and falls downward.

Dropping the ceiling on the upper floor is out of the question for me. Can you also make floor outlets in the dining and living room? Then you can put a sofa with legs there. I need a sofa with legs anyway for my robot vacuum cleaner.

You can do that but it will be more expensive to implement. I would leave it as is. On the ground floor ceiling/wall valves and on the upper floor floor and wall.

And in the kitchen then a wall outlet for example? Or do you have to do everything uniformly on one floor?

You can do that without any problem. You are welcome to mix as long as the pipe diameters and volume flows match.

I’m quite overwhelmed. Visually, it’s really not nice with the valves, but they have to go somewhere. What’s the most elegant way to solve this?

In our case, the specialist decided where the outlets should go, not an insurance person, nor the auditor or a teacher. Later on, you don’t see the outlets or anything else on the ceiling anyway.

Where do you have yours? Why can’t you see it anymore? Because of getting used to it?

Yes, over time you simply stop seeing many things. Because they just become normal. Unless you rearrange the furniture, etc., then this and that partially stands out again.

Where do you have yours? Why don't you see it anymore? Because of getting used to it?

yes, exactly. You no longer pay attention to something unimportant like the ceiling. The directions of gaze throughout the day tend more towards the floor, so downward. No one really cares about it either. We just had this topic among women about renovation, ventilation, beams, etc. It really doesn't matter at all... Even guests: ceiling lights are only really noticed in new buildings or by fetishists, but even then not anymore.

Just don’t have 1000 thoughts about the ideal (visual) position of the ceiling outlets only to realize that the smoke detectors were forgotten in the planning