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[quote=Anonymous]It isn't easy to correctly replace a regular furnace with a high-efficiency one, so you need a really good installer. They have to run the intake and exhaust pipes to an outside wall, while staying within manufacturer's specs AND satisfying you, the homeowner, appearance-wise and smell-wise. They have to provide for legal disposal of furnace condensate water, which unlike A/C condensate is produced during freezing weather. They may have to re-line your chimney if it was previously venting the water heater and furnace, because now it'll be venting only the water heater. All that said, I'm happy with the high-efficiency furnace I got this year, and I was happy with the previous one from 1999. The efficiency gain is more than implied by the percent efficiency figures, because regular furnaces draw combustion air from inside the house (causing infiltration of cold air to replace it), while high-efficiency furnaces get their air directly through the intake pipe.[/quote]
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