Upstairs Furnace Room Maybe your air conditioner or furnace is old, or maybe it isn’t sized properly (“sizing” refers to the heating and cooling power of an a c or furnace unit). if your equipment is only adequate for a 2,000 square foot home, and you have a 3,000 square foot home, you’re going to have large, room sized pockets of stagnant air that is too hot or too cold. The living room on the ground floor will be right around 72. in winter, if the thermostat is set to 70, the ground floor will be 70 but upstairs might be 66 in a room with the door open, or 62 or lower in a room with the door closed. the longer the door is closed, the worse the temperature difference becomes in the upstairs rooms.
Upstairs Furnace Room Tl;dr: while tedious, regular cleaning of the finer parts and their maintenance can lead to better performance and airflow on second floor. 11. enhance attic ventilation and floor to floor air balance. in my experience, tackling the second floor heat starts right at the top – in the attic. Once the larger, more significant sources of upstairs heat have been addressed through the attic, it may be valuable to add additional hotspot solutions to certain rooms with unique conditions. if there is one upstairs room that, by design, will always receive more heat than other rooms, more unique solutions may be applicable. More return air to the 2nd floor will improve the heating problem to the extent that it will help draw the wam air from the 1st floor up. hvac installer from 1984 2004, hvac service tech 88 present. i sealed the leaks and shut a couple of the registers downstairs, which helped solve the heating problem in the winter. Ari marantz is the owner of trained eye home inspection ltd. and the past president of the canadian association of home & property inspectors — manitoba (cahpi.mb.ca). questions can be emailed to the address below. ari can be reached at 204 291 5358 or check out his website at trainedeye.ca. trainedeye@iname .
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