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Furnace Repair St Louis Mo
QUESTION:My wife and I are starting a remodeling project on an 88 year old home
and have been looking for some comparitive information on gas forced air
furnaces. It would be nice to find an impartial analysis of the quality,
efficiency, price and dependability of different manufacturers of
furnaces. We currently have hot water baseboard heat and want to install
air conditioning on the second floor which is what got us looking at gas
forced air, but we have also been considering a Space Pak. Does anyone
have experience with the space pak type of conditioned air and what do
you think. Is there a better and more cost effective way to supplement a
hot water baseboard system that cannot carry the added load of the new
addition and at the same time air condition the house that does not have
any existing ducts for air distribution.
ANSWER: Interesting comparison between low and high efficiency furnaces. Did
they give any figures for average cost of these? What about average
repair bills and frequencies? Assuming a $2,000 price difference
between the low and high effcy furnaces, it would take 13 years to
break even if you purchased the high efficiency furnace (per your
quoted example). What are the life expectancies of high and low effcy
furnaces?
Add in some repair bills and it doesn't appear you would really save
any money by purchasing the high efficiency furnace (assuing
higher/more frequent repair bills on a high effcy versus a low effcy
furnace).
There could be some installation considerations where a high effcy
furnace would be less intensive to install in new construction, but
would be more intensive for an older home (i.e. chimney liner).
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