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  • New England HVAC Insider - RST Thermal Hosts MyTemp Seminars
    January 2010 - Volume 20 Number 01
    RST Thermal recently hosted two days of tech seminars on the MyTemp zoning system. The trainings were held at RST Thermal’s facility, located at 372 University Avenue in Westwood MA. Their web site address is www.rstthermal.com. Jeff Schultz, Regional Technical Manager for Home Comfort Zones . . .
  • Ask This Old House - Zoning a Forced-Air Heating and Cooling System
    Episode #722, Season 7, February 26, 2009
    Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey helps a California homeowner install a new type of "zoning" control for her forced-air heating and cooling system. Then Richard, along with landscaping contractor Roger Cook, host Kevin O'Connor and general contractor Tom Silva ask, "What is it?" Next, Tom helps . . .
  • The San Diego Union-Tribune - From Too Much To Just Right
    November 30, 2008
    Too noisy, too dusty, too hot and too cold – that was how a Rancho Peñasquitos couple described their home's heating and cooling system. It was 15 to 16 degrees hotter in the upstairs bedroom than the rest of the house,” said heating and plumbing expert Richard Trethewey, part of a team from PBS . . .
  • Popular Science - Home Comfort Zones MyTemp
    November 13, 2008
    The retrofittable MyTemp system uses a network of wireless thermostats to monitor each room’s temperature. To adjust it, balloon-like dampers inflate and deflate to control how much air passes through each vent. You pay to heat or cool only the rooms . . .
  • the NEWS - Contractor Comes Up With Right Solution
    September 15, 2008
    Residential zoning has seen considerable growth over the last several years, but there are still significant, untapped opportunities. Just ask the folks at Air Controlled Environments 72 Degrees Air Conditioning & Heating. The Chatsworth, Calif.-based contracting business, which specializes in residential HVAC replacement in the . . .
  • the NEWS - Home Comfort Zones Inc.: Energy-Savings, Comfort System
    April 21, 2008
    MyTemp™ delivers both energy savings and improved comfort by providing room-by-room temperature control for residential forced-air HVAC systems. It monitors the temperature in every room, even bathrooms, and individually controls the airflow to every vent, says the company. The system is comprised of a sophisticated network of . . .
  • Green Talk Radio - Heating and Cooling with Home Comfort Zones
    July 10, 2007
    Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas’ Editor-In-Chief, discusses the topic of intelligently monitoring and controlling your home’s heating and cooling with Hal Alles, CEO of Home Comfort Zones . . .
  • BigBuilder Online - Go With the Flow - Temperature control advances as new system for practical separate room
    October 1, 2006
    Almost like clockwork, each spring and fall, homeowners living in houses with forced-air HVAC systems must adjust the dampers in the ductwork in an often vain attempt to balance the temperature from floor to floor and room to room. It is an inexact science, to say the least. In an attempt to achieve balance and flexibility in larger homes, builders . . .