Removal of suitcases due to central controlled residential ventilation

  • Erstellt am 2016-04-30 14:02:45

jx7

2016-04-30 14:02:45
  • #1
Hello everyone!

Our site manager just sent us a sketch indicating that there will be soffits in the floor and ceiling areas of the cloakroom. Attached is a sketch as well as the ground floor plan. We believe that such soffits would greatly disfigure the cloakroom area and make it less usable. It also seems strange to us that such soffits should be accepted in a new build. I also cannot imagine that such ventilation cannot be planned without these soffits. You only know this from old buildings where ventilation systems are installed later.

Here is our question to the construction experts here in the forum
Are such soffits common and simply an unavoidable evil that owners of a central controlled residential ventilation system have to live with, or do you consider this poor planning that we should not accept? How does it look in your house?

Best regards

jx7
 

Mycraft

2016-04-30 14:14:59
  • #2
Well, the pipes have to go somewhere... however, the boxing in the floor area could be saved by moving the distributors entirely to the basement. (This is usually done anyway)

In the ceiling area, the boxing is not entirely clear to me, but why not use the necessary and existing boxes in the bathroom to get to the upper floor?

Of course, this will mean that pipes will have to run across the basement, which in my opinion is a better solution than boxing the whole thing again on the ground floor.
 

jx7

2016-04-30 14:25:33
  • #3
The boxing-in in the ceiling area is necessary because the ceiling at this point contains steel beams and cannot be drilled through. The boxing-in in the floor area is allegedly necessary because of the distribution box. Let's see what comes out of the meeting on Monday. We will definitely propose either moving the distribution box completely to the basement or making use of the existing boxing-in in the guest WC.
 

Mycraft

2016-04-30 15:38:29
  • #4
Aha...well, of course it makes particularly little sense to run ventilation ducts with, among other things, considerable diameter through walls which are then closed with a steel beam...

So I would think twice about whether to hire someone who knows about ventilation systems...
 

jx7

2016-04-30 15:50:11
  • #5
I don’t know if steel beams is the right word, maybe rather reinforcement. We are building with a general contractor and cannot freely choose the ventilation installer.
 

Mycraft

2016-04-30 16:42:45
  • #6
Yes, I assumed that already, nevertheless you have the right to skilled workers...

What does the rest of the ventilation planning look like?
 

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