Is Zone Control Right For My Home?
Maintaining a comfortable temperature throughout your Texas home can be challenging when everyone in the family has a different idea about comfort.
Why try to appease myriad tastes with one thermostat when you can customize comfort throughout your Conroe home with several thermostats?
Through a zone control system, you can make everyone in the family happy and end the haggling over temperature controls.
Creating a Zone Control System
Our knowledgeable technicians at Milton Frank Plumbing & Cooling can design a zone control system that accommodates all comfort preferences in your household. Zone control works with ducted heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC), including furnaces, air conditioners, and heat pumps.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) singles out heat pumps with two-speed compressors, saying they work well with zone control systems.
No matter which system you own, we can help you create independent heating and cooling zones in your home and equip each area with temperature controls.
Independent thermostats in a zone control system enable you to enjoy different comfort levels throughout your home. The thermostats signal their temperature settings to a control panel that responds by opening or closing dampers in the ductwork.
Adjusting the dampers lowers or increases the temperature in each corresponding zone.
What Constitutes a Zone?
The zones in your home can be as simple as upstairs and downstairs because different floors often have different temperature needs. Zoning makes sense in a multi-level home.
You might divide your home into north and south zones, grouping all rooms with large, south-facing windows. Sunlight adds heat to south-facing rooms, so lowering the temperature in those rooms without affecting other areas of your home is a plus.
Zoning can also help maintain consistent temperatures throughout a larger open space in your home.
Our Milton Frank Plumbing & Cooling experts can help you create zones based on room usage, location, and personal preferences. For example, rarely used rooms can constitute a zone, enabling you to dial the thermostat back and save money on energy costs.
Controlling Energy Costs
A significant benefit of zone control is saving money on energy costs. You can heat and cool rooms selectively, reducing energy consumption and utility bills.
On a scorching day in Greater Houston, you might lower the temperature in the zones where you plan to spend most of your day, set thermostats higher, or turn them off in unoccupied zones.
When you blast the AC in a single-zone system, your AC responds to one thermostat and blows cool air everywhere, whether you need it everywhere or not. Cooling occupied and unoccupied rooms at the same temperature wastes energy and money.
Personalizing Temperature Control
A traditional, single-zone system does not allow you to customize heating and cooling preferences. If you feel cold, you put on a sweater. If you feel too hot, you sit in front of a fan. However, you can change the thermostat and another family member’s comfort level.
A zone control system satisfies all comfort expectations without compromising comfort.
Additional Zone Control Benefits
- Home Value: A zone control system may increase your dwelling’s value and appeal to potential buyers.
- Air Quality: Particles that escape a dirty HVAC filter circulate through your home. The dampers in your ductwork may prevent those contaminants from entering some zones.
- Improved Comfort: Zoning can eliminate hot and cold spots throughout your home.
Add Zone Control to Your HVAC
Gain precise control over the heating and cooling system in your Conroe, TX, home. Ask us at Milton Frank Plumbing & Cooling for a consultation today. Call us at 281-645-9596 or request service online.