Any suggestions for heat my 2 story house? I've had the house for 3 years very soon, and the downstairs...
I've had the house for 3 years very soon, and the downstairs is always so cold contained by the winter. If I turn the thermostat up, then the upstairs get real hot. I don't enjoy duel heating unit, and don't want to spend the $$ it would take to do it. And to form matters worse, I own ceramic tile floors downstairs, I can discern the cold coming off the floor up to my knees. This is what I've tried: In the winter, I close adjectives the vents upstairs, while departing the vents downstairs instigate. Then I reverse them in the summer when using the heavens cond. This helps a moment or two, but not that much. Any other suggestions?
Answers: You sound similar to your home is a slab on grade home where on earth you are standing on the cold concrete floor(covered with tile).
The boil registers are in the ceiling because of this type of construction.
What make this design ridiculous is that heat rises while you stand on cold concrete. The warmness downstairs is never reaching the floor so you will always be cold.
Your thermostat is upstairs and the furnace will run till it reach the temperature you enjoy called for except it will still be cold downstairs.
Your summer application works better because cold nouns is heavier and the basement will be cooler. In most cases the crypt is much cooler in the summer.
Heat rises, remember this when you buy something. The HVAC guys are not getting to do their job properly, they are told what to install for that type of design.
How old is your home? Do you own a warranty? What color is the outside?
I am going to send you to 2 links where on earth a company employed the most advanced thermal imaging applications in the world to if truth be told see the issues you bring forward. Your house was signed stale as compliant and no one ever verified how it be functioning or using energy. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... to see warmth images of the summer function of a building and http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... to see the bake loss function as you have never see before.
You may lose your tiles but if you plan to keep hold of the house, there is floor heat heat trace you can install and the thermostat will be on the ground floor for more restructured heating. It is amazing how comfortable you are when your foot are warm.
Your building is designed to hold on to you comfortable, that is the brass tacks and you shouldn't be closing vents to allow for design problems.
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Yeah move to Australia. Coastal preferably.