On 12 Nov, 2004, at 09:07, Clinton, J. Scott wrote:
I will advise you to buy the most efficient furnace you can; the labour to put it in will be the same for both and the more efficient furnace will save you money over it's useful life (30+ years) and pay for the difference in only a few years time. I put in a 95+% efficient multistage Trane furnace and would reccomend the same to anyone.
Probably the best advice ... by far!
Today's furnaces are dramatically more efficient than any unit built prior to roughly 1995, and the ones built in the mid 90s are incredibly more efficient than those built in the 80s and earlier.
When we had high-velocity Air Conditioning installed in our place about 4 years ago, we replaced an oil-fired "coal conversion" hydronic system. Our new system was still oil-fired, but A) takes up about 1/4 the space of the old system, B) provides domestic hot water as well as hydronic heating, and uses about half the oil that the burner I had installed in 1985 used! We had a System 2000 from Energy Kenetics installed ( http://www.system2000.com/ )
[They are a local manufacturer, based in Lebanon, New Jersey.]
The system can use either oil or natural gas simply by changing the burner unit.
Energy Concepts Inc (ECI) of Bensalem did the work for us. [High Velocity AC uses 4 inch ducts and is ideal for retrofitting in old University City homes.]
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