During a Pennsylvania winter, you don’t just want good heating in your home; you want good, even heating in your home. It’s not much fun to stroll through your house during the morning and find that you have to cross through cold zones. (It isn’t much fun at night, either.) For maximum comfort, you need to discover why this uneven heating occurs and find a way to fix it.
There are a number of different reasons why uneven heating might start to afflict your home, and they range from issues you can fix with only a few changes to serious problems with your heating system that might require replacing it. We’ll run down the problems and what needs to be done in each case. If any of these issues require professional work, look to the Havertown, PA heating experts at Wm. Henderson Plumbing & Heating Inc. to help you.
- Blocked vents: If you use a forced air heater, like a furnace, it’s possible that some of the room vents are either closed or blocked. Furniture might have gotten moved in front of a vent opening. Go through the cold rooms and make sure the vents have room to release warm air.
- Thermostat issues: If you have a zone controlled heating system that runs with multiple thermostats, make sure they are all set and programmed correctly. With more than one thermostat, you can easily make a mistake with programming one. A thermostat may be malfunctioning, in which case you’ll need professional repairs.
- Insulation problems: Check the seals around windows and doors in those cold rooms to find places heat might be escaping through. Make sure the chimney damper is shut. The wall insulation may be the source of the problem, in which case you should have new insulation put in.
- An improperly sized heater: If your heating system is new, then this uneven heating pattern may point to a major problem: the heater is too small to get the entire house warm. Get in a professional to look over your house and do a heat load calculation to find out if you should get a new heating system. Make sure that for any installation you go to a dependable company so you won’t end up with an improperly sized heater.
You don’t want to spend the winter avoiding certain rooms in your home because they’ve developed Antarctic chills. If you notice uneven heating, take all the steps you can to find the cause, and then summon the experts at Wm. Henderson Plumbing & Heating Inc. to take advantage of our 36 years of experience. Make heating in Havertown, PA easy with just one phone call to Wm. Henderson Plumbing & Heating Inc.