How to get MORE AIR UPSTAIRS // Increase airflow in 2 story house

How to get more air upstairs? This is a common problem since most home are built with very minimal air balancing options such as dampers and hvac zoning systems. In this video we show several easy ways to increase air flow in the house and improve poor airflow upstairs. Starting with the basics, you can simply adjust dampers throughout your house to manipulate the air flow to get it to go where you want. You can also adjust your dampers that are typically near your furnace. These usually will close off upstairs or downstairs, however you are still using the same thermostat to control the temperature in both upstairs and downstairs. The best option for how to cool the upstairs of a 2 story house is to install a zoning system to balance the air in your home.

You can create many zones with independent thermostats throughout your house that will have you never asking why upstairs is hot again! Another easy solution if your upstairs is hot is to turn on your blower motor and run it continuously. This will just run the fan to keep air circulating throughout your house.

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[TheAirOfAuthority]

Thanks for watching! Do you think you'll looking zoning? Let me know below. 👇

[KerriCroake]

SO GREAT OF YOU TO POST THIS!!! THANKS

[robshannonjr]

You are a genius, That was so simple, turn the fan to on instead of auto. It equalized the temp throughout the house even though the A/C is too large and shut off too soon for upstairs. This really helped. It was simple and free! Thanks

[Zero-]

Problem with leaving the blower on, it will take condensation off the AC when it is not running and make the house more humid

[dankelly]

What's the range of cost for installing one extra zone to an existing system?

[Mikael.formermilitary]

Today I cleaned the fins in both outside units. I used a foaming cleaner from home depot. I vacuumed out debris and did the fins according to a video I watched. I turned my two systems on. Upstairs is set to 76, downstairs set the same. It is 97 degrees outside. Why are my units not able to keep up? Thanks for your assistance.

[Sudz]

By running all the time won't it shorten the life of your filters, blower motor, etc.?

[davidvang]

What options do I have if i can't add a dual zone on a 2 story? Background, will be newly built but missed the deadline to add that option and not sure if would have been worth it to be double charged to add as per the national builder. If left blower to on to see if that'll help is there a risk of blower wearing down? Thanks.

[purplemartin]

Going to put humidity back in the house with fan in on position.

[EPFANTCB]

Hmmm? Doesn't all these solutions try to band aid the real issue. The issue may be the wrong sized furnace or ac. Not enough heat or cfm coupled with inadequate sized ducts. Even when heat loss calculations are performed, builders seem to skip out on equipment. Venting and poor sealing, lack of insulation. The runs are way too long and restrictive. There's so many things that may be causing the issue. Furnace is located in a corner and sheet metal too far away. Zooning is a band-aid and leads to more costs. How much for new actuators' motors when they fail? How much for labor costs? In my opinion, the issue is incompetent people from the get-go

[alsur]

Very nice device, but how technician can service? But in general it's very business idea.

[deviouseyesxo]

I thought it wasn’t a good idea to close off registers