What are the differences between mid efficient furnaces and high efficient furnaces? Are there “real” savings and how does the price vary?
Mid-efficient furnaces are in most cases 80% efficient. To translate, every dollar that you spend on gas, .80 cents is used to heat your house, .20 cents goes out the chimney. A high-efficient furnace from “The Plumbing & Heating Shop” is up to 98% efficient, using the analogy, .98 cents is spent on heating and .2 cents is going out the chimney. Mid-efficient furnaces draw air from the house to provide oxygen to the burner. This is accomplished by a power exhauster, drawing anywhere from 150cfm (cubic feet of air per minute) to 200cfm. This is warm air you have already paid to heat. A high efficient furnace from “The Plumbing & Heating Shop” has intake and exhaust piping directly to and from the outside. Therefore air is not taken from the house to provide oxygen to the burner. The price difference between the two systems at is roughly $500.00- $700.00. The pay back on a hi-efficient over a mid efficient would be less than two years in most cases.
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