Central Air in Large Weston Homes: One System Is Rarely the Answer
Weston has the largest average home footprint of any town we serve, and that changes the engineering. A 5,000-square-foot home on Silver Hill with a three-story stair core cannot be conditioned properly by a single five-ton system, no matter how good the equipment is: the duct runs get too long, static pressure climbs, the far bedrooms starve, and the thermostat in the front hall reports that everything is fine. Our Weston designs almost always end up as two or three independent systems — typically one per floor, sometimes a dedicated system for a wing or a pool house — or a single system with true motorized zoning and a bypass-free static design. Multiple smaller systems also give you redundancy: when one condenser goes down in a heat wave, the house is uncomfortable rather than uninhabitable. We present both the single-system and multi-system options with the airflow math behind each so the trade-off is visible, not asserted.


