If you find some rooms being too cold while others are too hot, or if you are constantly fiddling with the thermostat, portable heaters or fans, then Zoning is the solution for your home.

The concept of Zoning is simple: Divide the house into areas with similar heating and cooling requirements with each "zone" being controlled by its own thermostat. The result is complete comfort throughout your home, heating or cooling only the rooms that are needed, and wasting far less energy to boot.

Every home has at least two zones; the living area and sleeping area, which are seldom used at the same time. Additionally, a home may be divided between upstairs and downstairs, master and children's bedrooms, living room, dining room, family room and kitchen. Each area is usually occupied at different times and has different heating and cooling loads.

New homes often have special considerations, since many designs call for open stairways, vaulted ceilings, multiple levels, large glass areas or lots of windows, indoor pools or spas, basements, atriums as well as sprawling single story designs that cover a large area. With the natural tendency for hot air to rise and cold air to settle, its difficult for an ordinary heating and cooling system to compensate. That's where Zoning comes in.

Zoning is accomplished through the use of automatic dampers in the air ducts within each zone. Since each zone is controlled by a thermostat that controls "its" damper, the heating / cooling unit provides conditioned air only to those zones requiring it. The dampers to the zones that are satisfied will close, saving energy, and thereby saving you money. This system, coupled with automatic thermostats that allow you to program different zones to reach different temperatures at various times of the day, gives you complete comfort control over your home, efficiently and effortlessly.

Not to be overlooked, however, is the cost savings that can be realized with Zoning. Whereas most homes today have a single thermostat that controls the temperature of the entire house, needlessly heating and cooling rooms not in use, Zoning allows fine-tuned temperature control on a room to room basis. The energy savings with Zoning can reach 30%, adding up to hundreds of dollars in savings per year.

An example of the savings you may expect:

Zoning solves the problem of rooms that are too cold or too hot. Zoning allows total control by setting the temperature you want, when you want it and where you want it. It provides convenience by having a thermostat in each zone, no need to return to the Dining Room to adjust the thermostat for the entire house. Zoning conditions only occupied areas, saving 30% or more when combined with programmable thermostats. You don't have a single light switch for your entire house, why control your heating and air conditioning that way?

Convinced? We thought so. But see the savings for yourself by filling in the simple form below. A good heating / cooling system pays for itself quickly as you will see.


ZONING CALCULATED SAVINGS

Simply fill in the first three fields, indicated in green, to view the length of time required for a Zoning option to pay for itself. All white fields and the final red field are calculated automatically. The default cost of $1200 for a new Zoning option may be changed.