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I have two furnaces in my house, what should they be set at relatively?

Nov 30, 2007 by Brett P | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

The furnace for the finished basement and utter floor is a 93% two stage that has a solar assist unit connected to it. The furnace for the 2nd level of the house is a 85% two place unit. Should I turn down the furnace to the upstairs when not up there, or leave it set to the same temp as the main floor? The reason I ask, is I of if the upstairs becomes cooler, it will draw the warm air upstairs and the furnace for the main two floors will have to indirectly exhilaration the upstairs.

This would depend on the case temperature. If it is winter time, which is what I am going to go with, I would adjust the upstairs about 5 degrees lower than down stairs. The down stairs heater will run out of heat to the upstairs, that amount will depend on the amount of insulation in the ceiling and the type of windows that you have. I am going to assume you have overlapped pane windows and go with my original 5 degree, opinion. Heaters are designed to work for a certain solid foot area, someone put in 2 heaters to utilize the zone heat theory and save some money. On a little cool days, just use the lower heater.

Does anyone have any experience with pellet furnaces to heat house?

Oct 06, 2006 by flowerlady4 | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

We have an oil furnance and are belief of replacing it. We are considering pellets or electricity.

Bill out Harmanstoves.com. I know they make a pellet furnace. I don't have one, but I do have one of their free standing stoves, the Go forward model. It heats my whole house and I only use my oil to heat domestic hot water. I have used the pellet stove for three years now and it has already paid for itself in what I would have paid for oil and it's very credible, haven't had any problems. The pellets burn clean and you don't need a chimney, you fair vent straight out the wall.

The pellets come in 40 lb bags, and a few places will deliver them in volume just like they deliver coal. On the coldest days here in PA I'd only have to fill the hopper once a day with a 40 lb bag and the ashes are very nominal and need only emptied once or twice per ton usage, you can even shop vac the ash out when the stove is cool. Pellets range in prize from $175-$200 per ton. I used 2-1/2 ton last winter.

Seperate Furnaces for a 3-Family House?

Apr 05, 2007 by handsome_bigfella | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

I holder-occupy a 3 family rental property in Michigan in-which the home is heated by a boiler and about 10 radiators. The house is 2100 sft and 2 stories and was sporadic out of order up into 3 apartments at about 700 sft each. My question is - if I wanted to install a furnace, would it make more sense (and economical meaning) to install one large furnace or 3 smaller cheaper furnaces to power each unit? Right now, the boiler heats the unbroken house, and only I control the heat. Would it be possible to add a furnace to the unit that I occupy and leave my tenants with boiler eagerness? Thanks!

I'm on the west shore so terminology might be different, by furnace I assume you are talking about forced air heating, right?
I large segment will always be less costly than 3 smaller but similar units, but;
Forced air heating for the whole house will require Duct work to be installed whereas you might be gifted to install "through the wall" type heaters, BUT you will now have three places to supply with Gas and /or Electricity.
What is impose upon with equipping the other units with their own controls and keeping the boiler?
Get a professional in to give you options, don't mess around with this yourself.