It's a commonly-heard urban myth that shutting the vents in rooms that aren't used frequently is a good way to reduce energy consumption.
In fact, shutting a room won't help to curb your energy bills, and it can have a number of serious repercussions in your home, including:
A better alternative to shutting air vents is having a zoning system installed to divide your home up into two or more areas for heating and cooling. Motorized dampers are installed in the ductwork to create the zones, and each zone gets its own programmable thermostat. Everything is wired to one centrally situated panel where you can easily manage the comfort settings for all the zones. Contact us at Russell's Heating & Cooling to learn more about how shutting a room impacts energy consumption in your Hampton Roads-area home. Our goal is to help educate our customers in Terre Haute, Indiana about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about energy consumption and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Guide or call us at 812-645-6859. Credit/Copyright Attribution: “deans_icons/Pixabay”