for most people who have two-story homes go that's
impossible that didn't happen yeah so dad can you tell everybody some of the improvements that
you've made to my hvac system here in my house you know to review we've got the micro power guard
we've got to ultraviolet light treatments we now have a high efficiency blower assembly now the the
next thing that we did was you have a multi-level home a three-level home two-story with a finished
basement and you've got one thermostat and it's located at the top of the stairs here on the first
floor that's all that you had for control and so what we did is we split it and i don't know if
you're going to be able to see it but way up here in the top you can see we had a duct up there
that went straight up into the attic that's always beneficial when they they run it that way a
lot of the newer homes they do it that way we actually had a duct that went your supply
duct went two different directions one straight up stairs to the second floor the other one
went over horizontally kind of hard to see went over horizontally to feed the basement
and the first floor so you can kind of see it back there and what we've done is added a zoning
system now the zoning system what it consists of is a control panel over here on the
wall this one was made by april there i've installed this zoning panel we've added a
second thermostat on the top floor upstairs and we have wired it to the zone panel we've taken the
original thermostat wired it to the zoning panel and we put dampers in each of those two ducts we
showed you and so now your thermostats now come and talk to this zone panel and as you can see
for instance right now we're calling for cooling and there's a green light in zone one the dampers
are open in zone one they are closed in zone two so we know that the first floor thermostat
is calling for cooling right now what it did is it went from that continuous blower where
everything was open to uh oh we've got a call for cooling it shuts off the second floor runs
now nothing but air conditioned air i can feel i can hear the air conditioner running right now
and it's going to deliver chilled air to the first floor until the thermostat is satisfied it will
shut it off and then it will go back to what it was doing and that is circulating there by opening
up all the dampers and running air everywhere and then the second floor can call you know we were
busy painting over the weekend and we actually had at 70 we were 70 degrees upstairs on the second
floor and we were 75 degrees on the first floor which for most people who had two-story homes go
that's impossible that didn't happen yeah and you can actually be painting the room i could feel air
moving being blown out of the register and yet you weren't freezing us out of the downstairs no the
downstairs actually felt kind of on the warm side so that's our zoning system it works extremely
well this is about as simple as it gets two zones two dampers two thermostats but that now
kind of completes the upgrade to the system and you said at your house your basement
was able to be zoned this basement was not able to be zoned into a third zone uh and when
when i say not able anything is possible yeah yes we could have or we could have but it would
have been really really labor-intensive and this is just a guest bedroom down here hardly ever
used and so what we're going to do now is manually adjust the dampers in the registers to maintain
depending on the season in the cooling season we don't want any air down here so we've got them
closed off come winter time we'll open them up so that it'll kind of share in the heating of the
first floor and another a big thing that really helps is uh you've got a a door at the top of the
stairway so in a door at the top or at the bottom of the stairway i don't care but if you can close
that off especially in the winter time it will be much much much easier to heat the basement the
basement the lower level thanks for the upgrades yep
