A C Pushing More Air To 2nd Floor

Ductless air conditioning solutions for 2 story houses.

A c pushing more air to 2nd floor.

Trane uses exclusive motorized modulating dampers inside your. Leaving the door open enables more hot air to be drawn into the room for exhausting. Take this concept to the next level by having an hvac professional install a climate zone system like the trane comfortlink ii zoning system. Upper floor rooms can be difficult to heat and cool.

Leaky or unbalanced ducts. Sometimes the problem is simply that your air conditioner must work too hard trying to push cool air up to the second level. Closing air vents is a popular strategy for adjusting air flow in the home but it s not necessarily a good one. This forces your a c system to direct more air upstairs.

Homeowners typically close vents in an attempt to redirect air away from unused spaces. Sometimes the difficulty is caused by leaky joints ducts or even the layout of a home. The hot air collecting near the ceiling is pushed outside the home by the exhaust fan. The belief is that closing a vent will simply push the air onward to other parts of the home improving energy efficiency.

If a heater or air conditioning unit sits in a basement and is separated from an upstairs bedroom by a garage attic and or crawl space air can get lost in those areas along the way reducing the amount of cool air that makes it to the upstairs room. The diy way to do this is to close a few not all vents on the first floor. If you partially close some of the vents on the first floor this can frequently help your cooling system force more cool air to the second floor of your home.