Just bought a new home and have a heating issue with the great room/living room. I'll try to explain without boring you to death.
First the room:
1. When running the first floor heater it can take awhile to heat this room.. no real mistery there. But all the all heat from this room ends upstairs in the hall way and sometimes 4 bedrooms if the doors are open. So by the time this room gets confy (70 degrees) the upstairs can be a balmy 76 or 78 degrees. I set it to 66-67 when we go to bed at night but sometimes wake up sweating when it turns on.
2. If the bedroom doors are shut upstairs, the rooms can get extra cold since the halway (where the thermostat is) stays warm and never turns on to heat the rooms.
Would it be ok to block the vents in the tall room during the winter? I think this would be only needed during the winter aynway since during the summer the air would be staying on the first floor. Would this hurt the system in anyway?
First the room:
- Its two stories tall, from floor to celing its probablly close to 25 ft tall if not more.
- The room is pretty large 19 ft by 20 ft.
- its is completley open, no doors, just entry points into the kitchen and hallway
- It has the stairs to the second story in in as well so its also open to the upstairs hallway.
- The room contain 3 registers. Two in one wall above the kitchen and one in the wall going up the stairs.
- These registers are part of the 1st floor AC unit.
1. When running the first floor heater it can take awhile to heat this room.. no real mistery there. But all the all heat from this room ends upstairs in the hall way and sometimes 4 bedrooms if the doors are open. So by the time this room gets confy (70 degrees) the upstairs can be a balmy 76 or 78 degrees. I set it to 66-67 when we go to bed at night but sometimes wake up sweating when it turns on.
2. If the bedroom doors are shut upstairs, the rooms can get extra cold since the halway (where the thermostat is) stays warm and never turns on to heat the rooms.
Would it be ok to block the vents in the tall room during the winter? I think this would be only needed during the winter aynway since during the summer the air would be staying on the first floor. Would this hurt the system in anyway?