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QUESTION:This question's on behalf of my girlfriend. She bought an older house last
year, whose major source of heat was a natural-gas wall furnace, one of
those ductless wonders that sits in the wall and blows hot air into the
room in front of it and the one behind it.
This fall, as the air got cooler, the furnace would not come on. It has
the Sears name on it, and a Sears tech came out yesterday to look at it.
After tinkering a bit, he said the gas valve was dead, and furthermore, the
valve was not available any more because the furnace was so old. So,
basically, he was calling the furnace dead, too.
This leaves her looking at replacement options. For once, Google is not my
friend. My search on "wall furnaces" gets a lot of explanations of what
they are, but I cannot find prices for procuring, much less procuring and
installing. a new one.
If anyone has gone through this experience lately, could you share any
information on what replacement costs would be? My girlfriend is
contemplating the alternative of putting electric space heaters, ceramic or
baseboard, in every room in her house.
ANSWER: How is the flue attached? I know there are gas room heaters that can
be installed and usually are vented to the outside, but if there is a
flue system already in place maybe one can be adapted.
I'd call the gas company, too. They are always anxious to make sure
the customer keeps using gas. Around here, the gas company actually
does repairs on gas furnaces.
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