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We bought house 2 years ago and the furnace is a mid efficiency furnace Lennox. Over the last year we found that our Hydro Bills are going up. In addition it takes a very long time for the furnace to warm up the house and still it feel very uncomfortable, the house has cold spots and the air is not disrtibuted evenly. Our old house didnt have this problem and it would warm up in less than 10 minutes. Funny enough this furnace is only 5 years old and i am not sure whether the problem is with the fact that it is a mid efficinecy furnace or is there something wrong with it? Does anybody else have this problem? what’s your suggestions?
Mid efficiency furnac is automatically about 20% less efficient than hight efficiency ones, so of course if your old house had high efficiency unit you paid less for your energy, but it should not really be affecting your Hydro bill, did you mean Gas Bill? In terms of comfort it also might depend on your thermostat settings, check it out, but generally speaking high efficiency furnace of course is better but since your furnace is only 5 years old you might want to wait on the replacement
Its your call but i personally would not want to pay money for a new furnace if mine was only 5 years old even if it is a mid efficinet furnace
GeorgeC wrote:We bought house 2 years ago and the furnace is a mid efficiency Lennox. Over the last year we found that our Hydro Bills are going up. In addition it takes a very long time for the furnace to warm up the house and still it feel very uncomfortable, the house has cold spots and the air is not disrtibuted evenly. Our old house didnt have this problem and it would warm up in less than 10 minutes. Funny enough this furnace is only 5 years old and i am not sure whether the problem is with the fact that it is a mid efficinecy furnace or is there something wrong with it? Does anybody else have this problem? what’s your suggestions?
Listen if your furnace caused you head ache then do something about it but if it works fine keep it thats all i gotta say
GeorgeC wrote:We bought house 2 years ago and the furnace is a mid efficiency Lennox. Over the last year we found that our Hydro Bills are going up. In addition it takes a very long time for the furnace to warm up the house and still it feel very uncomfortable, the house has cold spots and the air is not disrtibuted evenly. Our old house didnt have this problem and it would warm up in less than 10 minutes. Funny enough this furnace is only 5 years old and i am not sure whether the problem is with the fact that it is a mid efficinecy furnace or is there something wrong with it? Does anybody else have this problem? what’s your suggestions?
How big is your house? Also is your basement finished or unfinished? If you finished your basement after the furnce was installed then it is possible the size of the furnace is now too small and you need to get a bigger volume furnace as thats what happened to my parents house.
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