I’m so excited and happy that this past week I purchased a new furnace.  As I was sitting there with the my guy Dan from Apollo signing the paper work and picking out my new machine, I thought to myself “you know you’re growing up when purchasing a new furnace gets you all pumped up.”  I think Dan was tickled seeing me get so excited about it.  Well, what’s not to be excited about?  My Duke bills will be lower this winter, i will actually be warm in my house without feeling guilty and I’m helping the environment by upgrading my efficiency!  YIPPEE!

My old furnace (and i’m sad i didn’t take a picture of it before they started dismantling it) was a Williamson probably installed somewhere between the 1960’s-1970’s.  When I purchased my house 3 years ago, my inspector told me that my old Williamson furnace is a “work horse” and will never die.  In fact it’s rumored that Williamson put themselves out of business because their equipment never broke down and never needed replacing!  Not sure how true that is, but everyone in the real estate biz around here seems to know that story.  This furnace was so inefficient that everytime I would hear it crank up in the basemnt I would just see dollar bills floating out the windows.  My heating bills weren’t outrageous, but I also wasn’t very warm for the prices I was paying.  So, now I can feel comfortable both temperature and pocket book. 

Here are some before and after photos of the furnace: 

The Old Heat Exchanger - Its so BIG!The NEW heat exchanger

The New 95% Eff Furnace!

The ENTIRE new furnace could fit inside the duct work of the old furnace!  WOW!

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