Putting A Damper On Home Zoning

When one room’s too hot and another is way too cold, it’s frustrating. Nobody wants to have to run to the thermostat every time they change rooms. But due to the pesky laws of thermodynamics, it’s still a challenge to get every room to the right temperature.

The key to comfort is to separate your home into different heating and cooling areas, or zones. Some zoning systems rely on dampers to balance out rooms that are too cold or too hot. But these systems can’t offer the comfort—or convenience—of ecovent. Here’s why.

Invasive Installation vs. Plug-And-Play

A damper valve

A damper system may help your home’s heating and cooling issues, but get ready to put some holes in your walls, floors, and ceilings to get it installed. Your home heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technician will have no other choice but to cut into your ductwork and anything around it to install your dampers. And even after that’s done, they’ll have to leave access panels in your ceiling to meet new building codes, like these. Now there’s a better way, for both you and your HVAC technician. With ecovent, there’s no hassle and no mess. Just drop in a new vent and you’re done.

Difficult Adjustments vs. Automatic Comfort

Dampers are great if your heating and cooling issues are consistent throughout the year. But what if the rooms that are freezing cold in winter are the same rooms that are way too hot in the summer? Unless your dampers are automated and motorized, they can’t automatically adjust to seasonal changes—or even differences in sun exposure over the course of the day. ecovent can. Because our system can sense the real temperature of every room, ecovent makes rooms the right temperature automatically.

Limited Control vs. Mobile Access

With a damper system, you still rely on a thermostat to adjust the temperature throughout your home. Even if your dampers are perfectly set, you can’t adjust on the fly when you change floors or rooms. With our mobile application, ecovent puts room-by-room temperature control in the palm of your hand. And because the system adapts and learns from your habits over time, you won’t have to think as much about changing temperatures from room-to-room.

We hate to put a damper on traditional home zoning, but there’s a reason we built ecovent to be easy, wireless, and automatic climate control.