I think zoned heating and cooling is a safer option
I have a lot of pets, no, not cats and cats, then i have more non-traditional pets.
I keep hedgehogs, sugar gliders, and ferrets.
I have always had a single room in the cabin that is the pet room. All of those exotic pets need a little more heat than I care about so I have always just used a portable gas furnace in the pet room to keep them comfortable, then well, on Tuesday the ferrets got out of their cage while I was at work… They knocked over the portable heater. Thank God the portable gas furnace has a safety off feature. I think it turns itself off if it falls or if anything is in front of the grill. Without that, there could have been a fire, and even knowing that the safety featured did work in the portable gas furnace I still don’t assume comfortable with it in the room unsupervised anymore. What if it fails the next time the ferrets escape? I am looking into more safe options and I came across zoned heating and cooling. With zoned heating and cooling l I wouldn’t need a portable gas furnace at all. Each room of the cabin would have its own thermostat and temperature setting. I wouldn’t need a whole new Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C program either. The unusual temperature settings are accomplished by having dampers in the HVAC duct system. These dampers control how much heating or cooling gets to each room based on the thermostat settings. I assume care about this would be a safer option for our pet room so I hired a reputable Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C supplier to come out and start work on it on Friday.