Regrets from buying high efficiency furnace?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our furnace died in 2020. When the new one was being installed, the installer called me into the back yard (where they were staging the new one and disposing of the old one) to point out that it was originally manufactured on 1958.

Sixty Two Years years old.

Try and imagine anything today lasting 6 decades.

That's survivor bias. You don't know how many of the furnaces installed in 1958 made it past five years.

For the most part things being manufactured today are much better made than 60 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No different that owning a high performance car; less reliability and higher repair costs.

Huh - that doesn't even make sense - is that based on any experience or do you have any evidence?

High efficiency furnaces are mostly that way by design (they vent air horizontally rather than vertically) so why would they be less reliable.

As I wrote last week ours in 13 years old and we've had not a single service call on the system and it has worked great and saved us money as promised.

[Anonymous]

I really like mine (2 years old) because there is a much even distribution of temperature at different levels of my house due to the fan is always running and blowing stronger, but I live in fear of having to change the fan motor often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really like mine (2 years old) because there is a much even distribution of temperature at different levels of my house due to the fan is always running and blowing stronger, but I live in fear of having to change the fan motor often.

It's stopping and starting that kills motors. Running continuously is easier on them.