Posted by bc on December 24, 2008 at 18:20:04 from (68.88.175.43):
In Reply to: gas furnace posted by Don c on December 24, 2008 at 06:23:00:
Lowes sells furnaces now if you are up to it. Seems like about $800 for an 80,000 btu. Kinda depends upon if you can handle moving the air conditioner coil if it has one and any changes needed in the duct work from a different size unit. Different brands are different sizes and may require changing the return and out going duct work as well as the filter frame.
Most repairman won't fix old furnace and a/c's unless it is a thermocouple or valve or a small circuit board assuming they stock one. Better to sell a new one with a 100% markup plus labor and ductwork.
Its a no win situation for repairman, tell you a new one is needed but you opt for a $300 repair. Then a couple years later when the unit finally goes bad for good, the repairman gets blamed for a faulty repair or not stressing to you enough that you are throwing good money after bad when you repair it and don't replace it. Kinda like the decision you make when the engine blows on your 1985 Honda civic. Do you spend a few grand overhauling it or tow it to the junk yard?
Buy the carbon monoxide detector as a christmas no matter what if you care for her. Get the kind that are wired in so you have one in the furnace room and her bedroom. Then equip her house with smoke detectors wired together with one above the electrical panel, the basement rooms, the bedroom and any doorways and hallways between her and an exit. Then get her a weather alert radio. Easy Christmas and birthday shopping for the loved ones who have everything except the things that may save their lives.
As the others said, a hole in the combustion chamber is deadly. A rusted baffle or even a rusted housing not so bad but indicative of a furnace on its last leg. If she is rich, the decision is easy.
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