No, I have a 3,000 square foot ranch house with a half basement... It was build in 1960 with electric wires in the ceiling for heat... Each room had it's own thermostat and you could turn the heat off in the rooms that you weren't using... Plus you got a 50% break on your electric bill back then if your house was full electric...
When the grandparents died and we moved in, dad tried having heat pumps installed, but they couldn't keep up with the cold up here, so he replaced them with furnaces after a couple years...
They were able to run ducts in the half of the house with the basement, but had to use die grinders to cut through the 4" concrete floors to run them... That half of the house has one furnace...
Then the wing with the bedrooms where there is no basement, they had to install the ducts in the attic and put the furnace in one of the hallway closets to heat that half of the house...
But the dumb asses put the thermostats in the front of the house near the entrance hall, so when you open the front door and the cold air gets in, it triggers BOTH furnaces.... I have to balance the settings to try to keep the heat consistent... My bedroom has two vents and if the thermostat for this wing is more than 2° above the other wing, my room can get over 80° and can get too hot.... But if I set it 2° too low, my room will can get down to 63° or 65°... Then my oldest son is always bumping the one on this side up and down and keeps throwing off my room.... I have to mess with the other side thermostat to try to compensate... If I get too hot and turn the thermostat down for the bedroom half, then an hour later he puts it back to where he had it.... :BangHead: It drives me f*cking nuts... :mad: I tell him not to do it, but he does it anyway.... :mob:
They should have put the thermostats further away from each other so they are not fighting each other all the time...