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What thermostat should I buy for my heating system?
I have a gas furnace with a pilot light, and my current thermostat is a mechanical one that has only one stage and it is located in the living room.
When all the vents of the heating system are open, the living room gets hot real fast and the heating stops while our bedrooms are still freezing.
When I close the living room vents and leave just the bedrooms' vents open the heating never stops, we get steamed and the living room is too cold.
My house is a reverse floor plan, the living room and kitchen are upstairs, while the bedrooms are downstairs.
Will rebalancing help having the bedrooms warm without overheating the living room?
Sounds like the problem is not "what kind" of T'stat you should have, but rather, "where" the T'stat should be located.
A T'stat should always be in a central location in the home, such as a hall way. Never have a T'stat in a large open room, near windows (where the sun could hit it), or by outside doors.
Also be sure that it is not located by a lamp or near a TV. (The heat coming off those sources could throw it off.)
Also, if a heating vent is near it or blowing towards it, that could mess it up as well.
If I were you, (I'm a heating and A/C guy, by the way), I would have the T'stat moved from where it is now and put upstairs in a hallway closer to the bedrooms.
If your looking for a pretty decent T'stat if your in the market for a new one... Get a digital one. Honeywell, White-Rodgers and Aprilaire all make a really good one.
Hope that helps. Good Luck!
*****For your "Added Detail": Add dampers inside (if there not already there) in your duct work. Have each one marked as to what room they go to. And yes, balancing your air flow will definatly help! Direct more airflow into the bedroom ducts, and less to the upstairs living room and kitchen and things should work out well.
But once again if the T'stat is upstairs in the living room, think about having it moved down stairs to where the bedrooms are. That's where you are having the most problems. Get the bedrooms comfortable and the just the natural happening of, "warm air rises", would take care of the upstairs living room and kitchen.
Just a thought... If the T'stat is close to the kitchen upstairs, whenever you cook, the heat from the kitchen is going to shut the T'stat off before it warms the rest of the house!
Once again, I hope this helped & Good Luck!
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