Is it worth upgrading to High Efficiency furnace?

[Michael Daly]

BC gets the benefits and this subsidizes Albertans? You don't know much about Canadian politics! :-)

More likely, the Albertan subsidies come from oil sales.

Mike

[Martik]

In BC, electricity is now cheaper than gas for heating, especially if you zone heat.

[Victoria Heisner]

HTH, Vicki

[George E. Cawthon]

Nope, I don't. The treaty is with Canada not BC and not Alberta. How Canada divies up the money is unlikely to be in the treaty.

[George E. Cawthon]

Yeah I would be amazed, unless that closet is heavily sounded proofed. The tin can took care of the resonance noise. It had no effect and would be expected to have an effect on the burner noise or the blower noise. You are arguing against a point I didn't make; I said the higher efficency one would likely be more noise, not louder, more noisy referring to longer periods of noisy.

[George E. Cawthon]

Don't need it, but the calculator gave an error and wouldn't work.

[Tony Hwang]

No basement? Our furnace, hot water tank, whatever noise makers are in the basement.

[Steve Scott]

Say again?? It's going to be noisy for longer periods of time? Well how about if the new high efficiency unit produces significantly few decibels, ie is quieter, but runs longer does that mean it's noisier than the old unit that produces quantitatively more noise for a shorter period? I think you're stretching here.

[American Mechanical]

Yes, I've given up in attempting to explain the very clear, very plain fact that about no matter HOW you slice this pie - the *quality* brand high efficient unit when installed *properly* will most likely produce *less* noise than a standard efficiency, worst case scenario would be the *same* noise level/noise duration.

Respectfully giving up on this thread,

- Robert

[Victoria Heisner]

Don't know, worked fine for me....

Vicki

[Michael Daly]

Well if it goes to the feds, it definitely won't benefit the Alberta residents in anything that resembles a gas rebate.

Mike

[George E. Cawthon]

No basement; wish I had one. All of the newer homes with crawl spaces have the furnace and hot water tank in the garage, but that practice wasn't common here when our house was built.

[George E. Cawthon]

How about a bigger house? Does that imply it is taller? Noise isn't one dimensional.