Has anyone installed a new furnace recently? - Page 3

momtochloe · ‎11-03-2013

@shaggygirl wrote:
Replaced last fall, new one is Payne. What a difference a new one makes!

I agree @shaggygirl. I am so, so grateful for our HVAC guy as he has never taken advantange of my elderly mom and now me. The Payne has run great and my energy bills show it. Highly recommend!

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

@lulu2 We just spoke with the owner of our HVAC company. He said they think the Lenox furnace will last about 25 years

We made our choices but now have to wait about 6 weeks because they are running behind with the installations

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@cherry wrote:
@lulu2 We just spoke with the owner of our HVAC company. He said they think the Lenox furnace will last about 25 years

We made our choices but now have to wait about 6 weeks because they are running behind with the installations

@cherry,

Six weeks is a very long time! Hope your current furnace still works. Could get really cold by the time your new gets installed. I was without a furnace for about two weeks during the middle of a really cold winter. A close friend provided me with a Kerosun heater but I had to keep some of my window open all the time while using it. That was the worse winter ever!

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
@cherry wrote:
@lulu2 We just spoke with the owner of our HVAC company. He said they think the Lenox furnace will last about 25 years

We made our choices but now have to wait about 6 weeks because they are running behind with the installations
@cherry,
Six weeks is a very long time! Hope your current furnace still works. Could get really cold by the time your new gets installed. I was without a furnace for about two weeks during the middle of a really cold winter. A close friend provided me with a Kerosun heater but I had to keep some of my window open all the time while using it. That was the worse winter ever!

Our furnace works fine. It's just old an they quit making parts for it. We'll be ok. Thaks for thinking about us.

akaburtonfan · ‎12-08-2013

@2blonde wrote:
@cherry If he's been in the business that long and you already have experience with him, then by all means go with whatever he recommends!

I agree. We had to replace our furnace last December. We've used the same heater guy for almost 30 years and my parents had used him before that. We asked him what he would recommend since he is the one who will have to work on it if it has problems (unless he decides to retire). He told us and that's what we had him put in. So far it's working fine.

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

We have two furnaces and they are both Lennox. We needed a repair on one of them last winter, and the repairman said there was a recall on the part that we needed. The part was covered, but the labor was not

LonestarBabs · ‎06-26-2011

Lennox. That's all we've ever had in my family. My Dad was an HVAC engineer.

mistriTsquirrel · ‎07-17-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
My old forced-air-gas furnace was nearly 40 yo. I had three different hvac companies come to my house to analyze my needs and I got three different recs from each of them.
With the limited budget I had at that time, I chose a mid-priced Rheem to heat my house. It's been about five or six years running with no problems.

One of the biggest change from the old one is the electronics in the new one. My new one does not have a pilot flame. It has an electronic spark thing instead. There is also a flame detector thingee that detects when the the burner comes on. This is a pain in the neck because it gets "dirty" and must be cleaned or your furnace shuts off and won't come on until you clean it. I encourage you to learn how to do this because it happens more than than you think...mine two or three times last winter. Professionals charge around $75-$150 for annual cleanings/checkups here and the flame detector and spark thingee are the main things they clean. Once-a-year cleanings is not enough for the flame detectors.

Also have had to replace the original flame detector once because cleaning the old one did not help. I did it myself...like changing a lightbulb, sort of.

YouTube is great for learning that sort of stuff.

Anyone who wants to learn how, search "cleaning furnace flame censor."

YouTube has saved me sooo much money by teaching me how to do stuff myself.

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CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@bri20 wrote:
We have two furnaces and they are both Lennox. We needed a repair on one of them last winter, and the repairman said there was a recall on the part that we needed. The part was covered, but the labor was not

I know it's too late now I would have fought them on that. They should have and would have been reimbursed by Lennox for the labor costs on a recalled part.