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Here’s my question: What do furnace installers DO when a furnace completely dies (and has to be replaceD) in the middle of winter? Surely those people can’t wait until the snow & ice melt before the new furnace can be installed. What is your experience with this?

What do they do?  Why they go home and prop their feet up and read the newspaper.  It isn’t THEIR furnace that’s failed. Actually — Lots of times in this situation they install a condensing furnace that exhausts out the sidewall with a plastic pipe.  This allows them to abandon the old flue (which is often in poor condition).

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Don’t know about illegalities behind selling furnaces that are <80% efficient…can anyone else provide info about this?

I believe that it is 75%. —         BBB Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

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Hi…Some of you might remember my furnace saga from November & December. The short story is that my furnace company has finally agreed to take out the furnace that they installed (a 110,000 BTU gas/forced-air Lennox, 80% efficiency) and install a new one (a 150,000 BTU gas/forced-air Lennox, 78% efficiency). They’re doing this because the furnace that they installed in November simply can’t heat our house easily beyond 64 degrees. (On days when the external temperature is in the 20s or 30s, it takes about 2.5-3 hours to go from 59-60 degrees to 64 degrees. Then, it takes about another hour to go to 65/66 degrees.) The new furnace requires a 5" liner in the chimney. The present liner is 4".  Our house is three stories and our roof is steep. The furnace guy has to climb out onto my box gutters, climb up the roof a bit, and then stand up and insert the liner into the chimney. I understand his hesitation to do this whenever there’s snow and/or ice on the roof or gutters. So, we’ve been waiting for a warm spell that would melt the snow/ice that’s accumulated on our roof/gutters. We’re having a warming spell and the snow/ice is 99% gone, so he’ll be out soon to do the new installation. Here’s my question: What do furnace installers DO when a furnace completely dies (and has to be replaceD) in the middle of winter? Surely those people can’t wait until the snow & ice melt before the new furnace can be installed. What is your experience with this?

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Why do you let your house get down to 59