<edit> IVB </edit>suggested I sign up and post this question here. I just bought a new house and the temperatures range dramatically in the house. The foyer is 2-story and the living room is 2-story. When you walk up the stairs, the foyer and the living room are open on the second floor so there's kind of a catwalk.
The house is 1908 square feet and I've got a single 3 ton A/C unit with the furnace in the attic. There are 4 registers upstairs and 5 downstairs. There are also 3 registers that are above ceiling level of the first floor in the 2-story areas. For whatever reason the HVAC guys only put two returns in the entire house. One is in the master bedroom and it looks like it's a 6" duct. The other is upstairs on the catwalk nearer one of the upstairs bedroom and it's got a very large duct on it. The grille is 2'x3' but I'm unsure of the duct size.
The bonus room is over the garage and has attic crawl access on either side of the room. The bedroom nearest the return upstairs has a single attic crawl access door. Every room upstairs is mostly comfortable with the exception of the bonus room but the temperatures in the rooms throughout the house are dramatically different and that makes it uncomfortable.
I was thinking about possibly implementing a multizone climate control to help my issues as well as heat and cool more effeciently.
I looked online and found several electrically closed dampers of various sizes. I assume these would hook to some sort of central control panel and then thermostats would have to be set up in each zone.
Am I correct in assuming this? Will it be cost efficient to do this? I live in Georgia and it was 96 today and it's still got 2 months to get hotter. I think the problem will only compound itself further as it gets hotter.
Thanks in advance for the help and mods you can move this if I posted in the wrong section. I found this to be the most relevant forum.
The house is 1908 square feet and I've got a single 3 ton A/C unit with the furnace in the attic. There are 4 registers upstairs and 5 downstairs. There are also 3 registers that are above ceiling level of the first floor in the 2-story areas. For whatever reason the HVAC guys only put two returns in the entire house. One is in the master bedroom and it looks like it's a 6" duct. The other is upstairs on the catwalk nearer one of the upstairs bedroom and it's got a very large duct on it. The grille is 2'x3' but I'm unsure of the duct size.
The bonus room is over the garage and has attic crawl access on either side of the room. The bedroom nearest the return upstairs has a single attic crawl access door. Every room upstairs is mostly comfortable with the exception of the bonus room but the temperatures in the rooms throughout the house are dramatically different and that makes it uncomfortable.
I was thinking about possibly implementing a multizone climate control to help my issues as well as heat and cool more effeciently.
I looked online and found several electrically closed dampers of various sizes. I assume these would hook to some sort of central control panel and then thermostats would have to be set up in each zone.
Am I correct in assuming this? Will it be cost efficient to do this? I live in Georgia and it was 96 today and it's still got 2 months to get hotter. I think the problem will only compound itself further as it gets hotter.
Thanks in advance for the help and mods you can move this if I posted in the wrong section. I found this to be the most relevant forum.