Having air conditioning helps you stay cool in summer, but what happens if this only works for part of your home? Uneven cooling in multi-level homes often means that upper stories don’t cool off as much as lower ones. Find out more about why this happens and what you can do about it to keep your Dayton home evenly cooled all summer long.
Reasons for Uneven Cooling
Your home might not be cooling evenly due to the fact that hot air rises. This means that your central air conditioning unit has to work much harder to ensure that the upper floor of your home gets cool air. If you have an AC unit that is older or in poor condition, it might not be able to handle this extra work.
Having a roof that gets too hot can also lead to higher temperatures on your second floor. Heat from your roof moves into your attic and onto your second floor, which keeps it warmer than the first floor. Not having enough insulation in your attic also allows more heat to pass to the second floor.
Uneven cooling can also occur if you have problems with your ducts. If there are leaks in your ductwork, cool air escapes before it can reach the second floor. It’s also possible that you might not have enough ducts going to your upper floor.
How to Fix Uneven Cooling
This depends on the cause of this problem in your home. Some solutions include the following:
- Adding more attic insulation to trap heat from the roof
- Adding more ductwork to your second story or fixing leaks in ducts
- Improving attic ventilation to let more heat out
- Replacing an older AC unit with one that can cool your home more evenly
- Switching to a zoned heating and cooling system to control the temperature in different parts of your home
If you have a problem with uneven cooling in your Dayton area home, contact Ace Hardware Home Services for help. We can help you find a good solution for cooling your home evenly throughout the summer.
Our goal is to help educate our customers in Dayton, Ohio about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems).
