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Old 03-05-2012, 12:27 PM
 
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I'm with you on the stainless steel flu and going from oil to gas most models need it unless it's direct vent. Still the quote i received was to perform that across the board.
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Old 03-05-2012, 12:31 PM
 
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If your going with gas go for the gold and go 98% efficient!

A friend went from 80 to 98%. His pay back will be in 9 years.


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I'm with you on the stainless steel flu and going from oil to gas most models need it unless it's direct vent. Still the quote i received was to perform that across the board.
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Old 03-06-2012, 06:46 AM
 
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If your going with gas go for the gold and go 98% efficient!

A friend went from 80 to 98%. His pay back will be in 9 years.

I disagree, those high efficiency burners are much more sensitive than any of the lower efficiency models. I have a guy at work who has a 95% one, He's had a plumber at his house 4 times in the past year replacing circuit boards, tuning etc. The efficiency sounds great, but reliability isn't the same. On top of that, the cost diff is large. 9 year payback is a long time realisitically, 1st you are assuming that you're going to be there for significantly more than 9 years, and you have to pay for this now, to basically break even after 10 years, which by the way is the warrenty for one of these boilers.

in this climate I don't see how anyone should be replacing their 80% efficiency equipment, the payback period is just too long.

I feel the same way on the AC side as well. the cost bump to go to the 17 SEER equipment is crazy, you use the AC for 3 months of the year
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Old 03-06-2012, 08:14 AM
 
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^^ What brand did your friend install? No problems on this end from people who went high efficiency.

Wonder if it was a bad install?
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