Any solution to uneven heating/air conditioning?

[CSB]

We live in a 2 storey house and it always feels as if the temperature varies from room to room and floor to floor. We just had the ducts cleaned but the furnice is about 25 yrs old.

Does anyone have this problem and have you solved it?

 

[kjgrain]

Cindy,

Don't feel bad every house that I've lived in has had this problem even my new house which is only 4 months old.

We have a finished basement and even though it is June and the temps have been in the mid 80's our kids in the basement all have tons of blankets on their beds because the temp downstairs is about 10 degrees cooler (65) then upstairs. Our master bedroom is on the west side of the house and it is always the prefect temp where our open kitchen, living, dining and sunroom area always heats up quickly because of all the south facing windows.

In our old farm house we put UV film on the huge picture windows. This along with keeping the blinds shut during the day seemed to help keep our living room cooler in the summer.

Have you checked the insulation in your attic? You may need to blow more insulation up there and that may help. We also had insulation blown into the outside walls. A company came and made small holes on the outside of the house and put expandable foam in our walls from the outside and that helped alot since our house had virtually no insulation.

Check with your utility company, they may offer rebates for improvements such as more insulation and ceilings fans are supposed to help with heating and cooling just because they keep the air moving. Hope this helps a little

 

[klisow]

We had this same issue in a home we owned. We ended up buying small fans that sat right on top of the vent covers made especially for this reason, I think we picked them up at Home Depot. The fans would suck up air from the vents and blow it into the rooms. This helped a great deal.

In addition, my husband would closed off the basement vents, and other vents in the house where cool air was not required. This helped to get air to those areas which needed it more. Well, at least, that was the theory.

 

[hibbeln]

I've always heard that over 2,000 s.f. you really need 2 furnaces/a.c.'s to heat/cool evenly. Our house is 3,100 s.f. (no finished basement) and we have a furnace/ac for the 1st floor and separate furnace/ac for the 2nd floor. WOW! This is the first house that ever had things completely even. It also cuts way down on our heating/cooling bills because I can turn the heat almost completely off during the day upstairs, and turn the downstairs ac off at night in the summer. If the upstairs feels too hot or cold, I can flip on the ac or heat for 5 minutes and have it comfortable.
So it might be a size-of-house to furnace-size problem?

 

[KauaiMark]

I've always heard that over 2,000 s.f. you really need 2 furnaces/a.c.'s to heat/cool evenly. Our house is 3,100 s.f. (no finished basement) and we have a furnace/ac for the 1st floor and separate furnace/ac for the 2nd floor.

I guess that explains why my buddy is installing 4 furnaces and 5 A/C units in his new 6,600sf house. (The extra A/C is for the theater...)

I'm still limping along with the orginal 30yr old heater in my house...

 

[Htoo0]

^^WOW! Can you introduce us to your buddy?