Ensuring the comfort of your home depends on a few factors. For some homeowners, using a zoning system to control heating and cooling is an ideal addition to a dwelling.

A zoning system gives homeowners the ability to customize temperature settings in different areas of the home, known as zones.

How can you tell if your home could benefit from a zoning system? The comfort level of home occupants and your energy bills are just two ways you can answer that question.

A home zoning system can offer you the benefits of customized comfort control if you struggle with the never-ending endeavor of trying to satisfy your household occupants’ temperature preferences because of uneven heating and cooling.

Heating and cooling expenses account for one-half of the average home's utility bills. When temperatures become unbearably hot or cold, the heat or air conditioning turns on, ultimately raising utility bills.  Properly designed zoning systems for a home or office can lower utility bills and make life more comfortable.

Have you experienced battle fatigue over winter or summer "Thermostat Wars"? One family member is watching television in the den or living area, shivering, while another sits comfortably in a bedroom playing games on the computer. The shivering occupant raises the thermostat 2 degrees during a commercial. Ten minutes later, the video gamer complains about being slowly roasted and drops the thermostat by 3 degrees.

Many homeowners experience the same kind of problem every winter. They feel comfortable in most parts of  the house, but there are certain areas that are inexplicably colder than the rest.

Despite differences in design and location of various rooms in a home, many families continue to rely on one thermostat to control the climate in the entire house. Settling on the “right” temperature that suits everybody’s preferences – even if that temperature could be achieved with one thermostat setting – can spawn arguments that make the nightly sparring over the remote control seem tame by comparison.