Maintaining consistent temperatures throughout your home can be a challenge, especially if you have a larger or two-story house. Heat will rise, making rooms on the upper floor warmer than the ones on the lower floor. Cold air will drop, making lower-floor and basement rooms cooler. Rooms that receive southern exposure to the sun will be hotter, while rooms that take the brunt of north winds will be colder. Even your family may contribute to the dilemma: what’s comfortable for one person may be too hot or too cold for another.
A single thermostat cannot reasonably be expected to provide consistent temperatures through a large, sprawling building. Using a zoned temperature control system instead will give you accurate control over heating or cooling in individual rooms or areas, or on entire floors.
Zoned temperature control systems deploy a series of independent motorized dampers and thermostats to control temperatures in single rooms or specific floors or areas of your house. With a zoning system, you can control temperatures more precisely and accurately, compensating for temperature differences caused by your home’s design and thermal characteristics. Zoning systems can also lead to substantial savings on your heating and cooling bills, reducing energy use by as much as 25 percent.
To most effectively use a zoned temperature control system, you separate your home into individual zones that have similar heating needs during specific times of the day. For example, when everyone is out of the house during the day at work and school, a zoning system allows you to reduce the amount of heating or cooling in living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and playrooms. In the evening, the system can be set to provide comfortable temperatures in these well-used living spaces.
In most cases, a house will need no more than three individual zones to take care of everyone’s comfort control needs.
For more than 30 years, Ace Hardware Home Services, Inc. has provided trustworthy heating and cooling services to Dayton and the surrounding area. Contact us todayfor information on how a zoned temperature control system can help keep your home’s temperatures consistently comfortable.
Our goal is to help educate our customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about zoning systems and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.
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