Zoning Products
A Westinghouse Zoning System is designed to improve more than just the temperature swings in the upstairs and downstairs of your home. It improves comfort in other challenging situations such as high ceilings, oversized rooms, and expanses of glass windows exposed to the southern sun or the northern winds. Also, extensive ranches with hard-to-reach rooms and expansive duct runs from centralized heating and cooling sources - all are challenges that no single thermostat can adequately meet. |
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Likewise, as needs change, floor plans are just as likely to be modified. New room additions, atriums, solariums, newly finished basements, attics and rooms over garages, bedrooms converted to studies or rooms for other purposes, the addition of fireplaces, skylights - each can change the dynamics of a home and its heating and cooling requirements.
Meeting these requirements more affordably and effectively is what makes Westinghouse's Zoning System unique. Unlike conventional zoning systems that utilize integrated sensors, reconfigured ductwork, wiring and motorized mechanical dampers, the simplicity of Westinghouse's unique air-actuated damper design requires far fewer moving parts for longer, trouble-free service life. And, more importantly, simplicity means ease of installation, particularly in existing homes eliminating the need for extensive retrofit modifications.
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Up to 30% More Efficient
In addition to reducing energy costs by as much as 30 percent, a properly zoned system can also allow the energy-savvy consumer to use smaller capacity equipment in new installations for even greater savings without compromising comfort.
Zoning is a relatively new concept but it's quite simple to explain. Instead of trying to heat or cool an entire house with one thermostat, living spaces are essentially divided into separate comfort zones. Either room-by-room, or by a group of rooms, each zone is monitored by its own thermostat to dictate the ideal temperature.
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The system consists of a series of pneumatically-operated dampers independently opened and closed within existing duct work by a programmable control panel. With Westinghouse's Zoning System, you can customize comfort settings to handle up to 8 zones. Air flow can then be selectively channeled where it's needed depending on changing climate conditions or activities during the course of a day.
An infant's room, for example, may continue to receive more cooled air in the summer upstairs when it's hotter, while unused bedrooms or living spaces downstairs require less.
Then, in winter, when less heat is needed upstairs and lower living spaces are typically cooler, these areas can be similarly zoned to compensate for uncomfortable temperature variations.
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