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What Types of Furnaces Are Available To Me? · Shafer Heating and Cooling Service Repair Podcast

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  Check A Pro Joe here on the Check A Pro radio show, and I love doing what I do.
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  I get to help you, the homeowner, get what you need from the right home service
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  professionals in terms of safety and efficiency and really expertise.
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  Good friend of mine in the heating and air conditioning space,
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  Nathan Shafer, is joining me from Shafer Heating and Cooling. Hey, Nathan.
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  Hey, how are you? I am doing well. Thank you so much for joining me here on the program.
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  As you know, I love, as you also love, to help people with their overall comfort in their home.
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  And this question has come in to the show, and that is, what types of furnaces
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  are available to me or the people in our area?
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  Great question. So we could really spend a lot of time on that one.
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  There are so many different options in today's market. But for time's sakes,
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  and so we don't bore everybody and get too technical, you know,
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  I guess we could start with some gas furnaces and things first.
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  And so in the natural or propane gas furnace side of things,
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  there's anything from your Cadillac systems. It's going to make your modulating.
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  They call it 98 percent inverter driven type systems.
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  And you could pair those with heat pumps or ACs, whatever you wish to do.
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  And that's something we could help you know decide what makes the most sense
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  for for your wants your needs um efficiencies and different things um so that's
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  on the gas first side that can go all the way down to um with an 80 gas furnace
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  um single stage basically hey when i turn it on.
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  It's on 100 percent. And some things, something to think about when the people
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  look at efficiencies is kind of understand what that means.
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  So what's the difference between
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  80 percent efficient furnace and a 98 percent everywhere in between?
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  Easiest way to look at that is, hey, if I spend one hundred dollars in propane
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  or natural gas on an 80 percenter, I'm going to get 80 dollars back out of it.
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  I'm losing twenty dollars at the flu every time it's running.
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  Same thing with a 98 percent.
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  I'm getting ninety eight dollars of my hundred dollars back in heat in my home.
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  I'm only losing $2 and so Yeah, lots of options even just on the gas side of
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  things when we go to electric.
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  There's electric furnace options And those are typically paired with heat pumps
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  for efficiency purposes Great options as well.
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  And once again, you have all those from the base model systems that are just
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  single stage They're on or they're off all the way up into the Cadillac systems
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  that are fully modulating systems variable drive multi-stage equipment.
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  And it really just learns the patterns of you and your home and what your needs are.
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  There's also geothermal systems. And those are going to be your most efficient,
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  most comfortable, longest lasting, longest warranties.
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  And those are going to be upwards of 350 to 450% efficient.
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  And so meaning, hey, if I spend a hundred dollars in electric,
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  I'm going to to get up to $450 of energy of heat back out of that system because
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  we're pulling energy from the earth.
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  And then the electrification, the compressor and refrigeration system is doing the rest of the heating.
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  And there's other systems as well. There's hydronics and different things for
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  radiant floor heat and whatnot, but it would still fall under one of those three main categories.
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  So in a nutshell, without going too deep into it, there's lots and lots of options.
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  What you should do, everybody, is you should call Nathan and his team and they
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  will help you out at Shafer Heating and Cooling because it really takes a
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  consultation and they will be more than happy to talk through the options and
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  give you some great ways to get into a new system. them.
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  Absolutely. Absolutely. We're here to help and happy to do so.
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  And those consultations are free.
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  So we'll have one of our highly trained professionals come out and go through
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  some questions and just kind of help you decide what's best for you and your
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  family and no charge to do that. And then you get to decide from there. So.
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  Nathan, thank you so much for being the expert on the program today.
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  Much appreciated. Hey, anytime. Happy to do so.