Of course this means that your second floor has not yet sufficiently cooled.
Town house ac to top floor.
The only thing i can suggest is to damper some of the first floor registers allowing more airflow upstairs.
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The loft on the third floor has a separate entrance and office or bedroom space.
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Air conditioning for townhouse.
Hot air rises so the second floor is naturally going to be warmer.
This is a very common problem for multi floor homes.
Leaky or unbalanced ducts.
Regardless of where your air conditioner is located in your townhouse if you have a multi level home you have a lot of ductwork that snakes.
We have exposed beams downstairs so the ceiling is the floor.
I m wondering if a small heat shifting fan between the living room ceiling and the floor of each bedroom would do the trick.
So you need to 1 make cold air go up and 2 make hot air go down.
However when the thermostat senses that the temperature on the main floor is the temperature your hvac system has been set for it will turn off the ac.
If you don t have an attic space to buffer the heat or your roof isn t well insulated this will increase the heat factor upstairs.
The layton i townhouse 24 0 x 27 6 29 3 br 2 1 2 baths designed for full basement or crawl space foundation townhouse plan multi family division 2 story.
1 a way to get the cold air all the way up to the top room and 2 a return duct to circulate the hot air from the top of the house back down to the a c.
Your roof absorbs a ton of heat from the sun unless you have a lot of shady tree cover.
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Its better to close it there but if that s not possible you can just close off the some of the 1st flr registers.
If your air conditioner is on the bottom floor of your home this can exacerbate the problem even more since the length of ductwork extending to the upper floors increases.
The problem is that for the a c up top to work well you need two things.
All that hot air moves through your roof into the attic and ultimately into your top floor.