During our annual furnace check at the start of the heating season, we got the bad news that our old Lennox Pulse furnace had a bad combustion chamber, and had become a carbon monoxide hazzard (do you have a working CO detector?)
Out with the old...
...and off the truck with the new. This Lennox is a step up from the old Pulse model. It is 95% efficient compared to 92% on the old one, so it will use less natural gas. It also has a DC fan motor that is much more efficient than the old AC model.
First job is to cut a hole in the side for the air intake SpaceGuard filter.
The new furnace is more compact than the old.
Here it is ready to heat our home to a brisk 69 degrees.
We opted to upgrade because of the Bush Administration's energy policy: "Find more - Use more - raise the prices for our business buddies." Energy Czar Cheney pooh poohs conservation, probably thinking it's for "ninnys," and pushes ahead for more drilling in wildlife refuges.
The price of oil has gone from $25 a barrel at the start of the "W" regime, to nearly $100 today. With the neocon's set to attack Iran, prices will only go higher.
"Ninnys" that we are at the LipsYard house, we've opted to the conservation side of the equation, and hope you will, too, when your Old Paint needs replacing.
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