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All About Zoning Systems
Zoning Makes Your Home a More Comfortable Place to Live
 Imagine never thinking about the temperature around you because you're always perfectly comfortable. Bedrooms are refreshingly cool for sleeping. The kitchen isn't stifling hot. The den is completely cozy. Zoning gives you the control you need to enjoy perfect comfort, no matter where you choose to be inside your home.
Zoning For Comfort
Heating contractors have known for years that proper thermostat location is critical to achieving comfort. Yet, with today's home designs it's almost impossible to find a single location for the thermostat where the temperature it senses is truly representative of the whole house.
Open stairways, vaulted ceilings, multiple levels, lots of windows, and amenities such as hot tubs or indoor pools all make ordinary heating and cooling system controls inadequate for maximum comfort.
Zoning For Convenience
If you can recall "jiggling" the thermostat up and down, opening and closing the registers or opening and closing windows in an attempt to feel more comfortable, you already know how uncomfortable an unzoned home can be. With zoning, conditioned air is delivered exactly when and where it's needed.
Zoning For Energy Savings
Most people zone for the comfort benefits. And it's true that typically, zoned systems cost more to install than a non-zoned, conventional heating and cooling system. But the long-range value of a zoned system outweighs the initial investment:
- Zoning allows you to heat or cool only the zones that need it, not the whole house. Without zoning, when the thermostat is adjusted to make one part of the house more comfortable, the whole house is heated or cooled.
- Zoning lets you reduce equipment size or even eliminate a second or third system in some homes.
- Zoning increases your comfort and adds to the long-term resale value of your home.
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