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Originally Posted by fanaudical View Post
My wife constantly runs hot and I'm always cold but of course she wins. Our thermostat does a poor job of regulating the entire house (upstairs is always hot in the summer, cold in the winter, even with circ fan running and adjusting the dampeners each season).

AC: 73°F
Heat: 65°F
My house had the same problem.

On a 90F day, central AC makes ground floor 73F (or whatever temp I set) but second floor bedrooms 80F+. In a 95-100F heat wave, ground 72F second 85F+. In winter, if a 30F evening, central furnace keeps ground floor 68F (my setting) but second floor low 60Fs. Basically the 8” x 8” registers in bedrooms with no returns just not cutting it. I tried for years (decades) to deal with this via fans blowing air up the stairwell, closing different registers, etc. Finally gave up and installed minisplits in bedrooms.
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