Addressing Temperature Fluctuations After Remodeling

If you’re planning to remodel your home, it’s important to understand how this can impact your heating and cooling, especially if you have a central HVAC system. Adding more space, windows, and doors can result in new hot and cold spots throughout your home depending on your layout and the size and type of your heating and cooling system. Below, we discuss how remodels can affect your home comfort and what you can do about it.

How Remodeling Your Home Affects Its Temperature

You may not notice it immediately, but after you finish a home addition or second story, you may start to feel drafts or more extreme temperature changes in your home. These are known as “hot and cold spots” and are small areas where the temperature is noticeably different than in the rest of the house. In most cases, these hot and cold spots are created by a change in the way heat moves through your home.

For example, when you add an onto your home, you’re essentially creating more space and barriers that heat has to travel around to get where it needs to go. As warm or cool air travels from one place to another, it naturally loses or absorbs heat. This makes the areas furthest away from the HVAC system a much different temperature, often resulting in more discomfort or even an inability to use those areas of the home. If you’ve added windows or doors, this can also make it more difficult for your system to adequately heat and cool your space.

The same thing can happen when you add a second story to your home. The upper floors of your home are going to be warmer than the lower floors because heat rises. This means that your HVAC system has to work harder to cool down the upper floors while still keeping the lower floors at a comfortable temperature.

Adding Insulation

One of the best ways to maintain optimal temperatures in your home is by insulating it properly. Good insulation helps hold warm or cool air inside your home while preventing outside air from seeping in. This prevents your HVAC unit from having to work as hard to maintain the temperature you set, increasing its longevity and reducing overall wear and tear on your system.

When choosing an insulation material, it is important to consider its R-value. This value is a measurement of how well insulation can resist heat flow. A high R-value means that the material will be better at insulating your structure, while a low R-value means the material isn’t as good at insulating.

The R-value is determined by factors like the density, type, and thickness of the insulation material. Typically, thicker, denser, and more reflective materials have a higher R-value than thinner or non-reflective materials, making them a better choice for home remodels.

There are a variety of factors that can affect the R-value of an insulation material, including its thickness, density, and type. Thicker materials have a higher R-value than thinner materials, and denser materials have a higher R-value than less dense materials. Reflective materials also tend to have a higher R-value than absorbent materials. Be sure to choose an insulation material with a good R-value to get the best results.

It’s also critical to make sure all areas of your home are adequately insulated and there aren’t any interior or exterior walls that lack insulation. Areas such as attics, crawl spaces, walls, floors, and ceilings should all be insulated, and you should take care to seal any cracks or gaps in your home’s structure to prevent heated or cooled air from seeping outside.

How An HVAC Contractor Can Help

There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to temperature regulation in your home after remodeling, but an experienced HVAC contractor can help you navigate these challenges and make sure that your home is both energy-efficient and optimally comfortable.

Ductless heating and cooling offers an all-in-one solution to reducing or eliminating hot and cold spots in your home after a remodel. Instead of relying on pushing warm or cool air through ducts in your home, which can cause a lot of heat loss and impacts your air quality, a ductless system just transfers warm air from one place to another.

This cleaner, more efficient way of maintaining your home comfort also allows you to control which rooms in your home are being heated or cooled, or if the system is off in that area. This can help you save money and keep your HVAC equipment in great shape for longer. At Jones Services, we can help you address hot and cold spots after a remodel and obtain the home comfort you’re looking for. Call now at (845) 299-2074.