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Any suggestions for heating my 2 story house?
I’ve had the house for 3 years now, and the downstairs is always so cold in the winter. If I turn the thermostat up, then the upstairs gets real hot. I don’t have duel heating units, and don’t want to spend the $$ it would take to do it. And to make matters worse, I have ceramic tile floors downstairs, I can feel the cold coming off the floor up to my knees. This is what I’ve tried: In the winter, I close all the vents upstairs, while leaving the vents downstairs open. Then I reverse them in the summer when using the air cond. This helps a little, but not that much. Any other suggestions?
You sound like your home is a slab on grade home where you are standing on the cold concrete floor(covered with tile).
The heat registers are in the ceiling because of this type of construction.
What makes this design ridiculous is that heat rises while you stand on cold concrete. The heat downstairs is never reaching the floor so you will always be cold.
Your thermostat is upstairs and the furnace will run till it reached the temperature you have called for except it will still be cold downstairs.
Your summer application works better because cold air is heavier and the basement will be cooler. In most cases the basement is much cooler in the summer.
Heat rises, remember this when you buy something. The HVAC guys are not getting to do their jobs properly, they are told what to install for that type of design.
How old is your home? Do you have a warranty? What color is the outside?
I am going to send you to 2 links where a company employed the most advanced thermal imaging applications in the world to actually see the issues you bring forward. Your house was signed off as compliant and no one ever verified how it was functioning or using energy. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.html to see temperature images of the summer function of a building and http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatloss.html to see the heat loss function as you have never seen before.
You may lose your tiles but if you plan to keep the house, there is floor heating heat trace you can install and the thermostat will be on the ground floor for more efficient heating. It is amazing how comfortable you are when your feet are warm.
Your building is designed to keep you comfortable, that is the basics and you shouldn’t be closing vents to allow for design problems.
Email me if you have a further question.