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Re: my earlier toot.
Honest question - is a "utility room" some sort of Midwestern thing?
Talking about how to avoid running ducts through attics, it occurred to me that it might be.
Here, if you don't have a basement, there's usually a room with your furnace/air handler, water heater, and washer/dryer. Plumbing often routes there, too.
Sometimes it's less of a room and more of a closet, but we can't just stick the washer and water heater in the garage 'cause they'll freeze.
Just thinking about how norms feel normal and stepping outside of them feels weird.
When I hear people say "where else would the furnace go?" or whatever, it's super puzzling to me because... in the furnace room! We literally called it that in the house I grew up in.
But if it's normal to shove it up in the attic where you live, planning a room for that stuff might feel wasteful.
@TechConnectify see, i still think its weird y'all have a furnace at all. we had gas, but only for hot water. both the gas tanks and hot water system were just. around the side of the house
@irina We're largely not using tanks, though. If you have a tank around here, you're on propane and not gas - which isn't just a pedantic distinction, people generally don't conflate the two.
The gas network reaches pretty much all of the Chicago metro, so until you're very rural, you have a pipe delivering methane. It's way cheaper (for now) than electricity so nearly all of us use it for building heat, too.
