We have central heat and air, and there is one bedroom that is freezing cold all of the time and the room next to it that's gets really hot. I was just wondering if someone knows the cause for this, and how to fix it.
2007-11-07 08:17:56 · 7 answers · asked by crymeariver 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Aside from either lack of insulation (feel the walls and compare), it is probably your ductwork. First, check to make sure air is coming from the register and how warm it is. If it is the same temp as in the other room's register, you probably have a cold exposure corner room, not enough insulation, or poor insulation around the windows. Second, do check the windows (if present) by hanging very light material over them and watch while the furnace is NOT running. Movement of the material would indicate loose framing or little to no window putty holding in the panes. Finally, what is under and over the two rooms? One cold and one warm could mean the cold room has different siting, insulation, or other problem that keeps it cold (such as something over the warm room that keeps warm air in and the cold room lacking similar construction). By the way, I once found a styrofoam coffee cup in one of my primary ducts, caught on a seam, and it partially blocked the air flow into the room it was ducted to.
2007-11-07 08:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by ozarks bum 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2 things come to mind providing there is a heat feed in the room to start with.
When the furnace turns on make sure you have some air flow through the register. Have your door open at this point to. If you don't feel any air then the duct work could be apart somewhere. Try to get to where you can see the duct and make sure it is together.
The other is there may not be a return air to the furnace from that room. Every room except a bathroom should have a return air so the when the heater turns on and then the blower there is somewhere letting the air that was in the room to go. The return is what supplies your furnace blower anyway and with out returns there would be no supply.
This one could be a slight problem but should be fixable. There should be a return some where in a room or hall way that is used as the return for the area outside the room that is cold. You can either shorten your door so that the air will suck out under it or maybe try and cut a register through the wall or door panels. There goes the privacy but you will be warm.
Just though of what a other reason that you can check out, make sure that if you can see the duct work and tell which rooms duct work you are trying to fix make sure there isn't a damper closed. It would look like a little flat piece of metal at some place on the outside of that heat run that you can turn. There is a door so to speak in there that will shut the flow of air to that room. Good for if the room isn't being used.
2007-11-07 16:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by Ray Y 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Before considering your duct system may have baffles and there's a closed one leading to the room......try closing off the vent in the really warm room to see if the heat travels to the cold room.
If this doesn't work, you may have to go with a portable heater for the cold room........maybe one of the new IR heaters.
This might be cheaper than hiring a company to a thermal scan of your home pinpointing where heat is escaping and if it's being blocked.
I'm assuming the two roooms are identical, that is one isn't over a garage or other unheated location....window sizes are about the same, chaulking around the windows are complete, same exposure, etc, etc. In this house my office is on the north side and the heater vent is not placed on the room's outer wall, the two: cold side of house and improper vent placement are enough to keep this an ice box in winter.
2007-11-07 16:33:18 · answer #3 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a register in that room, Is it closed off? There might be a damper on the duct leading to that room. It will look like a small handle held on by a wing nut. Other then that you might have enough insulation in there.
2007-11-07 16:28:34 · answer #4 · answered by fireman_lll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure your vents in that room aren't closed. Make sure windows are closed to and leave the door open. That will help air circulate and make it warmer. Also make sure nothing is blocking the vents that could cause air/heat to not flow well either.
Hope that helps ya!
2007-11-07 16:57:52 · answer #5 · answered by busy_lil_bee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you checked and felt around the windows for air leaks ? Also check the heat register...the vent where the heat comes from. It might be closed!
2007-11-07 16:24:01 · answer #6 · answered by Carol K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are there electronics in the warm rooms? Tvs, Video Game Systems, etc.?
2007-11-07 16:26:16 · answer #7 · answered by yelhsa32 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋