I'm replacing an aging and intermittently broken central AC in my house of about 2200 sq. ft. I'm getting lots of estimates. There was one contractor I felt pretty good about until he showed me the unit he was quoting me on. It's a Rheem unit, but it has a blower *and* a heating furnace in the same unit. He says I can just leave that alone unless I really want to hook it up (the unit will be in the attic, and I have a separate furnace in the basement for my baseboard water heating system). It's a 4-ton unit, and I think he said it was 17 SEER. Every other contractor is quoting me on 3 ton units (though sometimes for more money), lower SEER ratings (the Rheem is, so far, the only one qualified for the fed rebate), but it seemed odd that Rheem would recommend a unit with a furnace on it to be placed in an attic. This guy had the Rheem software that does the matching. Is this guy just blindly going with whatever they recommend? Does this warrant suspicion, or does Rheem just build their units this way?
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14 years ago