Whether you live in a 1,000 sq. ft. house, a 5,000 sq. ft. house, a townhouse, or an apartment – everybody has a zoning system in their home. Case in point, when you go to turn on the light switch on at the front door, does every light in the house come on? Of course not; we zone our lights. Why do we zone our lights? The number one answer: To save money.

Let’s also take a look at when we go to the kitchen and turn on that water faucet. Does every faucet in the house come on? Of course not; we zone the water in our homes, too. Why? To save on our water bill.

Two out of three mechanical systems in our homes are zoned. But the most expensive one to operate is the heating and cooling system. Yet most homes have only one thermostat in the middle of the house, usually in a hallway with no supply registers and one return. It will not sense east sun or west sun, it will not sense north wind or south wind. But we expect that system to keep all the rooms on the perimeter of the house the same temperature. This is virtually impossible!

The Solution
Why should you sacrifice comfort, spend more money and waste more energy? You no longer have to! Zoning is your answer.

Zoning divides your home into areas with common heating and cooling requirements. Each zone is controlled by its own thermostat, allowing you to be comfortable no matter where you are in your home. Zoning also allows you to leave unoccupied areas without heating or cooling, saving you more money on energy costs. In addition, your zone system can be used with a variety of night setback thermostats.

Why choose All Home Comfort for your Zone system?

Who installs your Zone system is as important as the system you install. The Fact is this; it takes experience and expertise to design a proper Zone System. Done correctly, it will be the best thing you have ever done for your home comfort and reduced energy costs. Done wrong and you have a problem on your hands.

Here are some common sense rules we use when designing a Zone System. When you design a zoned system you should follow these guidelines as much as possible when grouping rooms together to form a zone:

1)  Never combine different floors on the same zone. The fact that hot air rises, and cold air falls will sink you before you even begin. As everyone knows, there’s nothing worse than a customer with a hot head or cold feet!

2)  Never zone rooms of different construction types in the same zone. For an example, a new addition should always have it’s own thermostat since it t typically has better insulation than the rest of the home, and it will react differently than older sections of the home.

3)   Never zone rooms that have perimeter wall areas with rooms that are entirely internal to the structure since they are not affected by the outside temperature changes. All internal rooms should be grouped together whenever possible.

4)  All thermostats should be located in the room used the most in any area. Just like with non-zoned systems thermostats should never be installed in hallways, unless the customer plans on doing most of his living there.

5)  Never put rooms with conflicting solar or mechanically generated heat loads on the same zone. For example don’t put a east facing room that receives a heavy morning sun load onto the same zone as a western facing room.

We may not be able to follow every rule, but if you at least take them into consideration when designing a system you’ll avoid a lot of trouble.