My heater at home work in some of the rooms but no in others. Why?

Answer 1

I assume you have checked the vents in each room to make sure they are fully open.

That being the case, I suspect that the ducting is flexducting in your attic and it's bent, crimped or somehow restricting the airflow. It happens a lot in tract housing (what we call "production housing"). It's called "production housing" because it's a moving assembly line to get them up cheaply. Time on each house is pushed and, often, the flex ducting gets wired up or laid so fast that it gets crimped, bent, etc.

Go looking thru your attic for flex duct. It looks like that dryer exhaust stuff but it's bigger. Make sure it is maintaining it's fully open rounded shape and not crimped somehow. Find a way to position it, stretch it, support it so it stays open and round.

If you have an older home, you have more sheet metal ducting. Look for crimps, disconnected ducting (blowing into the attic), etc. Connect any that has become disconnected and use sheet metal screws and duct tape to secure an air-tight seal in the joint.

Once the airflow is re-established everywhere, it becomes an issue of "air balance", which means partially restricting some rooms to create a small back-pressure upstream in the ducting and push some of the air down another branch line of ducting into another room. Not a science. Just trial and error.

You can do this all yourself or call in a Heating & Ventilating guy. His cost to do balancing would kill you, because it's time consuming, trial & error. Just have him work on the ducting and airflow. You and a friend, wife, etc. do the balancing.

Answer 2

I'm going to guess this is a closed hot water radiator system and you have baseboard heaters or radiators around the outside walls.
If this is the case you probably have to bleed the radiators. You'll have to go to each one with a small ice cream pail and a pliers or wrench and loosen the top butterfly flange and turn it until the water stops coming out (make sure the pump is on, on the furnace) first air, then steam will start coming out, turn it off, go to each one and do this.

If it's a forced air system and it has been working O.K. then something happen. You may have a fan in the ducts to push the air that has stopped or a thermostat that turns a fan on as explained has stopped, you'll have to check out all your breakers and switches.

A better idea is to have someone that knows what their doing come in and pay the price. You may only have to pay for the service call if it's nothing more than throwing a switch.

Answer 3

Try regulating the vents in the warmer rooms by partially closing them. This should allow more heat to be routed to less restricted vents, make sure they are open. Beautysou... was correct by suggesting you check the dampers in the ducts near the furnace. This, too, can be used to regulate temps from room to room. Rule of thumb, get cool air to higher levels in summer (cool air sinks), warm air to lower levels in winter (heat rises). Play around with this, it can be fun and interesting.

Answer 4

I agree with nutter - check your vents to make sure they are open and clear. Also check to see that the filter is clean - that can really slow the flow down.

If you have ceiling vents - point the louvers down so that the hot air goes down (it will rise) - this is the opposite from Air Conditioning in the summer when you make the louvers shoot out near the ceiling - as cold air falls - make it cool the hot air first. If you point them down - you just get a cold floor.

Answer 5

what type of heater; forced air - maybe the furnace duck shaft isn't open... You would need to go down stairs look up toward your furnace ducks and open the shaft to the room above, there is a little knob you turn to open letting the heat into that room

Answer 6

First, do not write him a letter yet earlier thinking it over. If he will pay the electrical powered energy bill then that is his prerogative to circulate away the heater on. ok, are you speaking on the subject of the warmers that have like oil interior them? they appear like radiators yet they're plug in warmers, and in case you shake them you will pay attention liquid interior them? i'm uncertain if those even get warm sufficient to initiate a hearth??? i think of the suitable factor you ought to do is positioned as many smoke alarms around his house as you are able to and function a hearth extinguisher accessible. additionally yet another thought. you ought to installation those baseboard warmers that have (water) radiators in them and that they are on no account warm to touch. abode Depot sells them. they're good for once you're able to positioned furniture up against them or toddlers can not burn themselves on them. My family individuals merely moved abode after a house hearth and guy desire we merely had a hearth extinguisher interior the abode. we could have been waiting to spend Christmas at abode. (it become an electric panel hearth) Edit: i had to remark. here in seattle we've renewable electrical energy... not carbon so we care much less approximately "burning" electrical energy. anyhow, the final factor i might ever do is impose my "environmental philosophy on a tenant! additionally had to advert, all heating systems are risky, even the pilot easy consistently being lit on your furnace isn't in basic terms emitting pollutants into the air, yet there is often ability for a gas leak and POOF the entire abode explodes! So it would be extremely hypocritical to whinge on the subject of the threat. you are able to not do away with the threat in all circumstances.

Answer 7

Hot water baseboard system? Electric baseboard system? Forced hot air system? Different systems require different repairs.

Could be low water, bad circulator pump, bad zone, bad t-stat, tripped breaker, bad fan, clogged filter, etc. Hmmmm.

Answer 8

I have a similar problem. It may depend on the number of vents you have in each room.

Answer 9

egads why did most assume its hot air? if radiator heat you need tobleed each radiator

Answer 10

JUST CALL COIT