Farmington Hills Furnace Installation Tips

If you are looking for an energy efficient furnace

, you should know a little bit about the types of furnaces that are available so that you can make the best decision for your home and your budget. There are plenty of different types of furnaces available, but we will only discuss a few types that use energy most efficiently.

Central Warm-Air Furnace: This type of furnace basically heats air in a combustor or resistance unit, which can run on electricity, oil, or gas, and pushes the air through the home. The system can either rely on the natural flow of hot and cold air, which is a gravity system, or fans, which are called forced-air systems, to get heat through the home.

Hot Water and Steam Systems: These types of central furnaces push steam or hot water through pipes, which are either in those old-fashioned radiators many older homes will have or are embedded in the walls, floors, and ceilings of the home. This type of system can be combined with a coil unit that can also help cool a home.

Heat Pump: This type of system uses the same sort of compressor that is found on a refrigerator to either pull heat out of the outside air and bring it in or to pull heat from the inside air and take it out. This type of system can also come in a geothermal unit, which uses the natural heat and coolness of the earth to generate heat or air conditioning.

The most efficient type of heating system is a geothermal heat pump, but this system can cost a lot of money to install. It may pay for itself over time, but you will want to know that you will live in or use the building where you are installing it for decades to come to know that you will get your money back out of it.

The second most affordable type of heating system is a central heating system that runs on natural gas. Natural gas is cheap in most places, and it can be used to power everything from your furnace to your water heater to your stove. Besides this, natural gas does not leave a lot of environmental residue. Oil, on the other hand, can be quite expensive, and it leaves residue in your home and in the environment. If you cannot get natural gas in your area, though, oil may be the choice you will have to make.

For the best savings on your heating and cooling bill, you should install a furnace - or dual heating and cooling system - that is at least 80% efficient. This means that the system actually uses 80% of the fuel injected into it to heat or cool your home. The other 20% is wasted, and systems that waste more than 20% of the fuel dumped into them should not be used, as they are expensive over time and can leave too much environmental residue behind to be worth the savings on the front end.

by: Alan Khaykin

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