House update

Hello again! Today the ducts got cleaned by the same nice people at A1 that sold my wife a new furnace. No complaints so far, and the duct cleaning came with some additional advice. It seems that furnaces need multiple cold air returns to function properly and only having one on the main floor (as we do) leads to an inefficient furnace and probably voiding our warrantee. Obviously this isn't what we want so we spent some time discussing "do it yourself" options to add a return on the basement level right beside the unfinished furnace room. That would be the easy option. The best choice option would involve getting some sort of a cold air return on the upper floor (where the bedrooms are) above the main floor. That's going to be a bit more involved and definitely beyond my modest do-it-yourself skills. Just calling for an estimate now, hopefully it won't be too bad. The alternative would be installing some big ceiling fans to push some air downstairs for circulation purposes... I may do that anyways, I like ceiling fans!