One of the biggest things I can say, is to find an oil or gas dealer in
your area that you can trust. Everything else is secondary if your dealer
is a friend or a crook.
Example, my furance's boiler cracked 1 month outside of the 10 year
warantee. My dealer, somehow "fudged" the install date and was able to get
a full replacement at no cost.
In my Apartment units, they are gas. My old dealer would say they
delivered gas, but it would be empty the next day.
"but there must be a leak then" is what they would say.
I switched gas companies, and it's like night and day. The new company
works with me and test my tanks regularly for no cost.
Inch
http://megageek.com
"Did you exchange, a walk-on part in the war,
for a lead role in a cage?" R Waters.
-----shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net wrote: -----
To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
From: Richard George <rkg@teleport.com>
Sent by: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net
Date: 02/08/2005 23:57
Subject: furnace question (again)
Hey guys,
this is probably pushing the limits of "shop talk", but since the
furnace does heat the house that surrounds the shop...
Our existing furnace has finally "had it" - after getting the beast
vaccumed last (gotta love oil units), we found that the
heat exchanger has cracked, and (unlike last time) replacement heat
exchagers are no longer available for this unit...
So... Is there a good faq out there somewhere on furnace "stuff" (in
the past I've found surprisingly little useful
info on the web WRT hvac stuff, and...)? who makes "good" and "bad"
units? Which fuel is gonna be cheaper
going forward (oil, gas, or...?). I was also thinking of getting an
electrostatic air cleaner stuffed in - any thoughts on this?
Any info, pointers, horror stories, helpful tips, etc., would be
appreciated.
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