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What Size System Do I Need For My Home? · Shafer Heating and Cooling Service Repair Podcast

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  Check A Pro Joe here on the Check A Pro Radio Show with a heating and cooling
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  expert you've seen him here before on the program Nathan Shafer from Shafer
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  Heating and Cooling hey Nathan,
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  hey how are you i am doing well thank you for asking a questions come into the
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  radio program may I pose this one to you so you can answer it in your expertise
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  way okay sounds good question The question is,
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  what size heating system or furnace do I need for my home?
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  How does someone actually know how to size that?
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  Great question. So, you know, there's a lot of rules of thumb out there and people go by those.
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  Unfortunately, there's a lot of third party studies by Consumer Reports and different ones.
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  And, you know, majority of systems are improperly sized in homes today.
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  And so sizing is a huge thing. Oftentimes people say, well, give me the biggest one. That'll be better.
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  And oftentimes that's actually quite the opposite. And so we want to make sure we're properly sized.
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  We don't want to oversize the system, but you also want a system that's too
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  small and doesn't satisfy the needs of the home.
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  And so there's a lot actually that goes into the sizing of a system. them.
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  What needs to be done is what's called a proper load calculation on the house.
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  And so we take things into consideration such as the window,
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  the size of the windows, the types of the windows, the doors,
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  size and types of those, the flooring, the type of flooring,
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  is it on a cross space, a slab, a basement, insulation values in the walls,
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  insulation values in the ceiling,
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  which way the house is facing, northeast, south, or west, how many people live in the home.
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  All of these things go into consideration of properly sizing a system.
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  And so we take all that information. We gather all that. Our comfort specialists
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  take all that forward. It's just nothing that you have to do as the homeowner.
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  But we gather all that information. We put that into our software programs.
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  And it's able to calculate exactly what size of system that house and that family
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  needs that, A, properly and accurately keeps them comfortable.
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  And, two, is efficient to operate when it comes to the utility side of things.
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  Here's a question. What if a customer says, well, that sounds great,
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  but we were told differently by another company?
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  Does that happen or is everybody on the same page?
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  I wish everybody was on the same page, but unfortunately not.
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  The thing is, if they're not saying that, you can do your homework and do some
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  research, and you'll find that that is the proper way to do it.
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  Um, and if you have someone that comes out and says hey, that's that's not that's
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  not necessary It's not needed.
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  You know, you've got you know, this size of furnace now.
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  It's always worked. Great. Great Let's just go with that same size again Um,
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  you can go to find oftentimes you're going to have issues the new systems the
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  old systems like your old car You could get away with a lot more you could fix
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  a lot of things with a couple wrenches Right now you can't you got to have the
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  right computers and diagnostics and things and they have a lot of safety switches and things in place.
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  Your HVAC equipment is no different. And so the old systems,
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  what we thought may have been working great all these years,
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  may not been working just as great as you thought it was.
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  When you go to put a new system in, there's a lot of safety switches and mechanisms
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  and things on that furnace that's going to keep that system from not allow it
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  to work under certain parameters.
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  And so we want to make sure that that system is sized correctly so that you
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  don't have those issues. But if someone says that, I would ask them why that is.
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  Oftentimes, it's either A, they haven't had the proper training or don't know,
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  or worse yet, B, they do know that's necessary and they just choose not to because
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  they want to take the easier route, the faster route. Yeah, this is all good stuff.
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  Contact Nathan and his team at Schaefer Heating and Cooling.
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  They will get you the right system that you need.
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  They're going to calculate it properly, and you can definitely trust them.
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  All of Nathan's information is located in the notes of this podcast.
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  They're one click away. As always, my friend, thank you so much for joining
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  me today. Hey, thank you. Have a good day.