No Heat On 2nd Floor
With no air return port installed on the second floor slightly open the window in each room to release the air pressure.
No heat on 2nd floor. No heat on second floor. Call the hvac guy and have him check it out. Air circulation in homes 3. This is called solar gain and it helps bring in.
If your only thermostat is located on the first floor the temperature that it reads will govern. This morning i discovered that while the heat was working fine on the first floor of my house there was none on the second. Unfortunately the heat read more. When the first floor reaches your target temperature it shuts off cooling or heating for the whole house regardless of whether the second floor has also reached that temperature.
There is no problem with the heat on the first floor. The baseboards on the second floor are cool to the. In addition to offering private natural light to your second floor skylights allow the heat from the sun to warm the rooms on your second floor. There are two zones one for the first floor and one for the second floor.
You are still throwing lots of money through the window but the temperature will become more comfortable. If you have separate zones for the upstairs and downstairs the zone control and or circulating pump could have failed. I have a forced hot water oil burning furnace. It used to happen rarely then once in a few months then every few weeks and recently it happens every few days and even a couple of times a day my house has two heating zones and one indirect water heater all fed by one water pump the problem occurs only when the 2nd floor heat is on while the 1st floor heat is off which is mostly at night time.
A plug in space heater or two. No heat on the 2nd floor.