Picture this. You’re sitting in your family during the summer and all of a sudden a trickle of sweat runs down from your forehead. “That’s not good,” you think, so you head for the thermostat to lower it…just enough to Hot and Cold cool yourself off.
Except five minutes later a family member heads to that same thermostat complaining about how cold it suddenly became. You were too hot, now they’re too cold, and somehow you need to strike a compromise.
Sound familiar? It should, because uneven temperatures from room to room is common place, especially when your heating or cooling system starts getting up there in years.
Here are the 6 most common factors that contribute to uneven home temperatures. Some are quite easy and inexpensive to correct, while others are a little more involved.
- Heat registers, baseboard heaters, or radiators that are blocked by furniture or draperies
- Larger rooms and open spaces that get the same amount of conditioned air as smaller rooms.
- An improperly sized furnace or AC system.
- Ducts that are dirty, poorly laid out, or developing cracks or gaps.
- Air leaks from gaps around windows and doors, wall outlets, floor vents, poorly insulated attics, and more.
- Not enough zones to properly regulate warm and cool air from on area to another.
So, if you’re wearing a sweater in one room and a sweatshirt in another, now’s a great time to contact Eagle Service Company to analyze the problem and recommend the most efficient and cost-effective solution. Eagle Service Company: your complete plumbing, heating and cooling resource.
