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In Gas Furnace Installation, Bigger Isn’t Better
We size the gas furnace to your house first, then plan the venting it needs. We put in 80% and 95% Goodman furnaces when we do furnace installation in Indian Trail. The plain difference is how much of the gas you’re paying for turns into heat in your rooms. The 95% is what’s sold as a high-efficiency furnace.
Bigger isn’t better with furnaces, even on the freezing nights Indian Trail gets. An oversized furnace heats the house in short bursts, shuts off and fires up again, which wears out parts and leaves some rooms cold. We’d rather size the furnace to your home than push the biggest one, so it keeps up without cycling all day.
Our work as a heating contractor includes gas furnace installation, and the job takes in the gas line, venting, ductwork and the tie-in to your AC. If your old furnace can still be fixed, we’ll tell you that first and quote the repair before there’s any talk of furnace replacement.
What You Get When We Put In Your New Furnace
Choices We’ll Talk Through With You
Their workmanship was excellent. I have had a couple of follow-up questions, and they have been very responsive.
Furnace Installation Is Mostly Decided Up Front
A furnace install is mostly decided before the old one comes out. Once the size, venting and gas line are settled, install day is hands-on work, and there’s not much left to surprise anyone.
1. Call or Text Us a Photo
Call or text (980) 414-5046 to set up a first visit, which is usually the same day. A photo of the old furnace’s data plate helps, since it shows the size, age and fuel. Texting after 10pm is fine, and the message waits for us until 6am.
2. Size It to Your House
We don’t copy the old nameplate, because that furnace may have been too big from the start. We size the new one to your house, looking at square footage, insulation, windows and ductwork before we settle on a BTU rating.
3. Check the Flue, Gas and Return
We look over the flue, the gas line and the return air the new furnace will depend on for years. A return that’s too small starves the blower, and a flue that won’t carry exhaust out is a safety problem, so either one gets fixed first.
4. Set, Vent and Connect It
The new furnace goes in with the venting it needs. An 80% uses a metal flue, usually double-wall B-vent, and a 95% gets PVC pipe and a drain line. We match the blower to your evaporator coil and hook up the thermostat wiring so they’re working together.
5. Test It and Haul Off the Old One
Your new furnace ties into the Piedmont Natural Gas line already at the house. We connect it, then run a gas leak test and a carbon monoxide test before we’re done. Once both pass, the old furnace goes on our truck.
80% or 95% AFUE? Your House Usually Decides
Both are good furnaces, and which one’s right usually comes down to your house. A 95% condensing furnace sends cool exhaust out through PVC venting, and many can draw combustion air through a dedicated intake pipe too. It’ll need a path to an outside wall or the roof, plus a drain. An 80% furnace vents up a metal flue and burns air from the room around it.
If your old furnace shared its flue with a gas water heater, a switch to 95% can leave that flue too big for the heater alone. A good installer checks the water heater’s venting before making that switch. An 80% isn’t the wrong pick, either. The install David C. reviewed paired a 100,000 BTU 80% AFUE Goodman gas furnace with a new Goodman AC and matching evaporator coil.
Your Furnace Has to Fit the Evaporator Coil
In a home with a furnace and central AC, the furnace blower moves the cooled air too. Union County summers are warm and humid, so that blower keeps working for months after the heat’s off. We match it to your evaporator coil, which usually sits right on top of the furnace. With the right airflow, the AC can pull moisture out of the house the way it’s rated to.
If your AC is staying, the new furnace has to fit the evaporator coil already on top of it, in cabinet width and in airflow. A blower that can’t move enough air for the AC lets the coil run too cold, and it can ice over on a muggy July afternoon. If the AC went in around the same time as the furnace, weigh whether to replace both at once.
Did you know?
The first U.S. well dug just for natural gas, in Fredonia, New York, in 1821, piped its gas through hollow logs sealed with tar and rags. Your furnace’s gas line won’t be logs, and it gets a leak test before we leave.
FAQs About Furnace Installation in Indian Trail
Before You Pick a Furnace
Every install carries our 1-year labor warranty. Goodman backs its own parts, and the length of that coverage depends on the model. Calls and texts to (980) 414-5046 come in any day from 6am to 10pm, and we’ll usually be out the same day.
It depends on the job. For one customer, our crew showed up early on a Tuesday morning and had his Goodman gas furnace, AC and coil in by mid-afternoon. A switch from an 80% to a 95% furnace, or new ductwork, can add time, and you’ll know that before install day.
AFUE is the share of the gas a furnace turns into heat for your house over a full season. An 80% furnace turns 80 of every 100 units of heat in the gas into warm air, and the rest goes out the flue. You’ll find the number on the yellow EnergyGuide label and the spec sheet.
Because it pulls so much heat out of its exhaust that the water vapor in it turns to liquid. That’s the condensing part of a condensing furnace, and the water has to go somewhere, usually a floor drain or a small condensate pump. An 80% furnace keeps its exhaust hot enough to leave as vapor, so it doesn’t need one.
Sometimes, but it depends on what you’re replacing. If the old furnace is an 80% model and the new one is too, efficiency alone won’t change the bill much. Moving to a 95% furnace, fixing an oversized unit that short-cycles or opening up a starved return can make a bigger difference.
It’s worth a look if comfort and noise matter to you. A variable-speed blower ramps up slowly and runs longer at low speed, so rooms stay more even and the air’s quieter at the vents. In an Indian Trail summer it also helps the AC pull more moisture out. A standard blower still heats the house fine and is the simpler part to repair later.
Often, yes, if the new furnace is single-stage like the old one. A two-stage or variable-speed furnace may need an extra wire, or a thermostat that can run its stages. We check the wiring at the furnace and the wall. If the old one can’t run the new furnace properly, a new thermostat is the fix.
An 80% furnace burns air from the space around it, and a tight closet can starve the flame. A starved flame burns poorly, can make carbon monoxide and can trip the furnace off on a safety. A louvered door or vents to the next room usually solve it. Many 95% furnaces can draw combustion air through a dedicated intake pipe, and one set up that way doesn’t rely on closet air.
Yes. We haul the old furnace away when we’re done, so it doesn’t sit in your garage waiting for bulk pickup. If your AC and evaporator coil are replaced on the same visit, the old ones leave with us too.
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