Zoning

Right now, it's unlikely that every room in your house is always as comfortable as you would like it to be, because when you adjust your thermostat to be comfortable where you are, other rooms become too cold or too warm, but hardly ever just right.

It's simply too much to expect that one thermostat can be adjusted to provide ideal conditions for every room in your home at the same time. Different areas in your home are used for different purposes at different times, and because different parts of your home are connected to the outdoors through different combinations of windows, doors, and walls, they will gain or lose heat at different rates, making it impossible for a single thermostat to effectively control the temperature in all rooms simultaneously.

Zoning means dividing your home into areas with common heating and cooling requirements, with each zone being controlled by its own thermostat. With zoning, you can be comfortable no matter where you choose to be inside your home. Zoning is invisible to the homeowner, except that there will be more than one thermostat. The thermostats may be manually adjustable or automatic clock or programmable models.

Zoning can also save energy because you can heat or cool different portions of your home to certain temperatures depending on how they are being used. Instead of having to heat or cool your entire home depending on the temperature requirements of just one area, you can specify different "setpoints" for different zones. This can lower your heating and cooling bills by 10 percent, 20 percent, or even 30 percent, adding up to hundreds of dollars per year.

Give Burgeson's a call and we can help to determine how zoning can improve the comfort level in your home and save you money.