Furnace Installation....Reasonable price???

Posted by yourname on December 16, 2005, 9:57 am

ashwini19952002@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hello,
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that it will be a 100,000 BTU unit.
> The load calculation was done (but not in writing). The existing
> furnace is 80,000 BTUs. The salesperson mentioned that for our house
> (2700 sq.ft) the 80,000 BTU unit will suffice but it would be better to
> go to the next higher BTU unit. The price differential between 80,000
> and 100,000 is only around $200.
>

Now Ottowa may get cold, but unless you have had problems with your
heater not keeping up, you do NOT need a bigger furnace. The guy is not
up do date, to be polite. A larger furnace is always, always, less
efficient when its output is not needed. As a matter of fact, if they
are quoting input btu's, you could get by with a smaller furnace,
although I don't think that would be wise in Canada, unless you are
counting on Global Warming..

With furnaces bigger is not better. Get a real heat load calc done.

Posted by mm on December 17, 2005, 5:27 am

>ashwini19952002@yahoo.com wrote:

>> Hello,
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that it will be a 100,000 BTU unit.
>> The load calculation was done (but not in writing). The existing
>> furnace is 80,000 BTUs. The salesperson mentioned that for our house
>> (2700 sq.ft) the 80,000 BTU unit will suffice but it would be better to
>> go to the next higher BTU unit. The price differential between 80,000
>> and 100,000 is only around $200.
>>

>Now Ottowa may get cold, but unless you have had problems with your
>heater not keeping up, you do NOT need a bigger furnace. The guy is not
>up do date, to be polite. A larger furnace is always, always, less
>efficient when its output is not needed. As a matter of fact, if they
>are quoting input btu's, you could get by with a smaller furnace,

So they could be quoting either input or output?

When I said "Sorry" I thought one person had agreed with m Ransley,
but both posts were from him, so it only counts as one. :~)

>although I don't think that would be wise in Canada, unless you are
>counting on Global Warming..
>With furnaces bigger is not better. Get a real heat load calc done.

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Posted by m Ransley on December 17, 2005, 5:48 am

mm yes they are discussed on input btu, which was great when everything
was 80%

Posted by mm on December 17, 2005, 5:58 pm

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:48:27 -0600, ransley@webtv.net (m Ransley)
wrote:

>mm yes they are discussed on input btu, which was great when everything
>was 80%

Thanks for setting me straight, you and Greg. I didn't want to
confuse anyone and I hope I haven't.

I'm very glad to get this straight myself because I'm going to need a
new furnace myself someday, and yet I can't get myself to start
shopping as long as the current one works. Yes, I'll regret this when
the time comes, but at least now I won't waste one cycle of shopping
by confusing what the btu rating is for.

Yes, I can see how that would be just fine when everything was 80%.

but now that I know, it's not much harder to multiply the input and
multiply by the percentage.

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Posted by kids on December 16, 2005, 10:25 am

Last year Carrier Infinity 2 stage VS DC motor furnace installed by Direct
Energy cost 4100CA$. + new Aprilair 600 humidifier 250$ installed. + GST
Plus 300$ Endbridge rebate. Plus expecting more rebates as I did home
efficiency audit before installing furnace, and submitted results just now.
If you go with DirectEnergy, you have to pray that they will send you a good
crew (they have many, and some of them have no clue what they are doing).
My old furnace was 120BTU, new is 100BTU - more than enough for my 3700sq
feet home + basement.
A year ago I was quoted difference in price between 100,000BTU furnace and
120,000BTU furnace around 75$.

>> Hello,
>> I am located in Ottawa, Canada. We are thinking of replacing
>> our 20 yr. old furnace. The old furnace works but we recently had a
>> couple of service calls and thought best to start looking at
>> replacement.
>> Yesterday we were quoted a price of $5000 Canadian dollars
>> (around $4300 US) for a replacement furnace.
>> The new furnace will be a high efficiency Carrier Infinity 96
>> (dual stage heating, variable speed DC motor, 5 yr parts warranty and a
>> lifetime heat exchanger warranty). This was quoted by a reputable and
>> large company with offices across the province.
>> I was wondering if this is a reasonable price.
>> Thank you.

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