Derek ColeGM, Simmons One Hour Heating & Air · AI HVAC Answers

Optimize Your Home's Comfort: Heat Loss & Gain Explained

21 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube instructional video (hosted/created by Derek Cole) explaining residential heat loss and heat gain calculations used to size heating and cooling equipment. The speaker lists home features that affect load calculations (insulation, windows, door orientation by compass exposure) and warns that incorrect sizing—either undersized or oversized units—causes discomfort and problems such as short cycling; the speaker also notes over 20 years of experience and an anecdote about renting an uncomfortable home.

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Well, your home has insulation, has windows, the door orientation, north, south, east, west. All that and the windows north, south, east, west. All that is going to factor in to what your home needs to heat and cool the home properly. It's called a heat loss heat gain calculation. It should be done on every home because even this past summer, we've like every summer before, I've been doing it over 20 years. We rented a home that are not comfortable and it's usually an undersized unit or an oversized unit. You can have two butt units for your home and then you go back to that short cycling problem. Unit turns on and off quite a bit.