heating and cooling your house properly
Commercial buildings do this, and so do rich people, but I'm wondering why it's not more accessible for the average person.. I'm talking about having thermostats in each room of your house, and controlling the flow of hot/cool air into that room based on the temperature.
I've looked into the technology and there isn't much that will actually help you properly heat your home. I currently live in a 80+ year old home and each room seems to have it's own atmosphere. The middle of the house, where the thermostat lives, is always just the right temperature. However, all rooms around it, are always too hot or too cold. So, people tend to adjust the thermostat until the surrounding rooms are comfortable, which uses more gas/electricity than is actually necessary - and now the room with the thermostat is too hot/cold.
Ideally, this is the system I would like...
A central thermostat with multiple wireless satellite thermostats that control the vents in each room. If the furnace is on, the thermostat in each room controls whether the vent is open or not based on the room temperature. If the temperature is right, it closes the vent and indicates to the central thermostat that the furnace can be shut off. When all thermostats indicate that the furnace can be shut off it is turned off. Similarly, when the satellite thermostats indicate that the room temperature is not right, the central thermostat decides when to turn the furnace back on.
This would allow your home to be properly heated/cooled and likely reduce the use of your furnace, thus saving overall gas/electricity consumption. At the very least, it would optimize the use of your furnace.
One day, I will solve this problem... or find someone who already has.
I've looked into the technology and there isn't much that will actually help you properly heat your home. I currently live in a 80+ year old home and each room seems to have it's own atmosphere. The middle of the house, where the thermostat lives, is always just the right temperature. However, all rooms around it, are always too hot or too cold. So, people tend to adjust the thermostat until the surrounding rooms are comfortable, which uses more gas/electricity than is actually necessary - and now the room with the thermostat is too hot/cold.
Ideally, this is the system I would like...
A central thermostat with multiple wireless satellite thermostats that control the vents in each room. If the furnace is on, the thermostat in each room controls whether the vent is open or not based on the room temperature. If the temperature is right, it closes the vent and indicates to the central thermostat that the furnace can be shut off. When all thermostats indicate that the furnace can be shut off it is turned off. Similarly, when the satellite thermostats indicate that the room temperature is not right, the central thermostat decides when to turn the furnace back on.
This would allow your home to be properly heated/cooled and likely reduce the use of your furnace, thus saving overall gas/electricity consumption. At the very least, it would optimize the use of your furnace.
One day, I will solve this problem... or find someone who already has.
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