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Furnace recommendations lanman 03-31-2008
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Posted by lanman on March 31, 2008, 9:25 pm
I am in need of a new furnace for a rental property. The property is a
small cape, and the size of the furnace needed is 85K BTU, and it uses
oil.

I'm told by friends that the brand of furnace is less important than
the burner, and that as long as it has a Beckett burner all will be
well.

Can anyone recommend a good furnace with no frills, a Beckett burner,
and an efficiency rating around 85% that a non-licensed consumer can
purchase at a discount warehouse. Thanks...


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Posted by fpbear on March 31, 2008, 10:45 pm
This review site recommends Thermo Pride OH Series.
http://www.consumersearch.com/www/house_and_home/furnaces/index.html


>I am in need of a new furnace for a rental property. The property is a
> small cape, and the size of the furnace needed is 85K BTU, and it uses
> oil.
>
> I'm told by friends that the brand of furnace is less important than
> the burner, and that as long as it has a Beckett burner all will be
> well.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good furnace with no frills, a Beckett burner,
> and an efficiency rating around 85% that a non-licensed consumer can
> purchase at a discount warehouse. Thanks...
>
>
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Posted by Boden on March 31, 2008, 10:57 pm
layman wrote:

> I am in need of a new furnace for a rental property. The property is a
> small cape, and the size of the furnace needed is 85K BTU, and it uses
> oil.
>
> I'm told by friends that the brand of furnace is less important than
> the burner, and that as long as it has a Beckett burner all will be
> well.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good furnace with no frills, a Beckett burner,
> and an efficiency rating around 85% that a non-licensed consumer can
> purchase at a discount warehouse. Thanks...
>
>
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----
> http://www.pronews.com offers corporate packages that have access to 100,000+
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Both of the furnaces in my home are Thermopride (forced hot air) with
Beckett oil burners. My water heaters also use Beckett oil burners and
I've had no problem with any of them. The Honeywell controllers are
another story though.

Posted by Jim Elbrecht on April 1, 2008, 7:56 am

-snip-
>Both of the furnaces in my home are Thermopride (forced hot air) with
>Beckett oil burners.

I'm not the OP- but I'm sort of looking for a furnace. Since you're
the second one to say Thermopride, I had to go look. I haven't
looked at furnaces for 30 yrs- so I was impressed with the idea of a
2-stage. Then I look at the specs and they confused me.
http://www.thermopride.com/OH6_2Stage.cfm#spec

At " low capacity" it has 'low fire' and 'high fire' at 70k & 85k BTU-
and at 'high capacity' it has 'low fire' and 'high fire' at 85k & 106k
BTU.

Is the low/high capacity different set-ups [just a nozzle &
adjustment?] - or does it output all those different BTUs from the
factory?

Jim

Posted by Boden on April 2, 2008, 2:27 am
Jim Elbrecht wrote:

>
> -snip-
>
>>Both of the furnaces in my home are Thermopride (forced hot air) with
>>Beckett oil burners.
>
>
> I'm not the OP- but I'm sort of looking for a furnace. Since you're
> the second one to say Thermopride, I had to go look. I haven't
> looked at furnaces for 30 yrs- so I was impressed with the idea of a
> 2-stage. Then I look at the specs and they confused me.
> http://www.thermopride.com/OH6_2Stage.cfm#spec
>
> At " low capacity" it has 'low fire' and 'high fire' at 70k & 85k BTU-
> and at 'high capacity' it has 'low fire' and 'high fire' at 85k & 106k
> BTU.
>
> Is the low/high capacity different set-ups [just a nozzle &
> adjustment?] - or does it output all those different BTUs from the
> factory?
>
> Jim

I don't know but suspect that these are accomplished by changing the
nozzle. Two-stage furnaces today make a lot of sense.


My furnaces are both 175K BTU/hr units and I run them only at the high
fire level with fairly high air flow rates so that the output air is
maintained at 140 F.

These furnaces were installed 15 years ago and have been trouble free.
The initial problems that I had were due to an installer and engineer
who made numerous mistakes designing the multi-zone control system.

Boden

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