Micp879
New Member
Hey everyone,
Hopefully you can help me out. I recent moved into a newly built two story house. The air conditioning system is a dual zone system, with the first floor being one zone, and the second floor being the other zone. Each zone has its own thermostat, and they work independently of each other. Well I recently noticed the first floor cools much slower than the second floor. The other day, the first floor cooled at a pace of about 1-2 degrees an hour, and it wasn't even that hot outside (not even 90 degrees). When I put my hand up to each of the registers on the second floor, I feel a nice strong cool air current. When I put my hand up to the registers on the first floor, I feel a very weak air current, amost more like a cool draft moreso than an actually current. (It is maybe like only 10-20% of the air current that the second floor is getting, so thats at least a 80% decrease) Does anyone have ideas what might be causing the problem? All the registers are completely open. I can understand that maybe the current loses a little bit of strength making its way down to the first floor registers all the way from the attic, but this seems like a bit much. I am hoping to talk to the site foreman on Monday morning, if I can find him. I was hoping you guys might have some ideas before then. Thank you so much. Keith
Hopefully you can help me out. I recent moved into a newly built two story house. The air conditioning system is a dual zone system, with the first floor being one zone, and the second floor being the other zone. Each zone has its own thermostat, and they work independently of each other. Well I recently noticed the first floor cools much slower than the second floor. The other day, the first floor cooled at a pace of about 1-2 degrees an hour, and it wasn't even that hot outside (not even 90 degrees). When I put my hand up to each of the registers on the second floor, I feel a nice strong cool air current. When I put my hand up to the registers on the first floor, I feel a very weak air current, amost more like a cool draft moreso than an actually current. (It is maybe like only 10-20% of the air current that the second floor is getting, so thats at least a 80% decrease) Does anyone have ideas what might be causing the problem? All the registers are completely open. I can understand that maybe the current loses a little bit of strength making its way down to the first floor registers all the way from the attic, but this seems like a bit much. I am hoping to talk to the site foreman on Monday morning, if I can find him. I was hoping you guys might have some ideas before then. Thank you so much. Keith