Here we have a Thermopride oil furnace that almost looks new, Thermopride is considered by many heating contractors to be the best oil furnace on the market. This is probably why American Standard uses Thermopride to manufacture their oil furnaces.
Thermopride Oil Furnace
One of the biggest challenges going from oil heat to A Heat Pump is the air discharge temperature, oil heat can deliver very hot air, much hotter than a Heat Pumps. So customers are use to that nice hot air blowing out of the supply ducts. Heat Pumps deliver a more efficient discharge air temperature.
American Standard Forefront Air Handler
The American Standard Forefront Variable Speed Airhandler shown above combined with an American Standard 16 Seer 2 Stage Heat Pump is an awesome combination. Delivering high efficient heating and cooling. We included a Honeywell VisionIAQ thermostat to control the dual fuel system.
American Standard 16 Seer 2 Stage Heat Pump
The American Standard 16 Seer 2 Stage Heat Pump installed like a dream. American Standard does a fabulous job providing control voltage diagrams for any application. One of my biggest concerns with any Heat Pump is the noise, once this unit was fired up all my concerns where gone. Runs very quiet in both stages.
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This older York 80% furnace is done, parts where starting to be thrown at it and finally the question came up “is it worth it or should we buy a new furnace”. Anytime your furnace is 10 plus years old and your starting to look at a major repair, its time to really consider a new furnace.
Older York 80% Furnace.
The existing York was an upflow model, not a typical install for the Northwest. In an upflow model the heated air gets delivered upward into ducting, usually when the furnace is located in the basement.
New American Standard 80% Gas Furnace
As you can see above I had to make a small supply transition on top of the furnace. The new American Standard 80% furnace is a little bit smaller than the older York furnace. I field fabricated the return air connection. Everything else bolted right up.
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Once again I find myself replacing another Rheem furnace, this Rheem furnace was getting to costly to repair so my customer elected to upgrade to an American Standard 95% variable 2 speed furnace.
Going from an 80% furnace to a high efficient 95% furnace requires some modifications to the system. Primarily running a new PVC vent system and adding a drain system.
95% American Standard Variable Speed 2 stage
In this case the furnace was in the garage so running the PVC vent was pretty easy as well was the condensate drain line.
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This Lennox 80% gas furnace has seen it last day, its time for a serious upgrade to an American Standard 95% 2 stage variable speed furnace. My favorite furnace to install.
Older Lennox 80% Furnace
After meeting with my customer it was decided to install the new American Standard furnace 90 degrees. This would give the owner more room and make it easier for servicing down the road.
New American Standard 95% 2 stage variable speed furnace
As you can see above by turning the furnace and sliding it to the left it really cleaned up the space. I had to modify the existing return air ducting to accept a new filter system, fab/install a new supply transition and add a condensate pump to the system because there was no floor drain available.
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This older farm house 80% gas furnace has seen better days, pure and simply my customer is lucky to be alive after seeing the crack in this heat exchanger. Fortunately for them the older home has a lot of infiltration which allowed for good ventilation.
Older 80% Furnace Cracked Exchangers
The furnace above is not a uncommon sight for technicians in Skagit County. The older farm house’s that did not have basements eventually had furnaces installed in closets within the home. This one is accessed from the living room.
Crack in 80% gas furnace
As you can see above the crack is pretty obvious, and from the coloring you can tell this was a serious hot spot on the exchanger. Causing a lot of stretching and expanding as it operated, until it eventually caused a serious crack.
New American Standard 80% Gas Furnace.
The new American Standard 80% single stage furnace fit right into place. For this customer a simple 80% to 80% change out is all they where after. It really does not get any simpler than this.
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We had been after changing this old National-US boiler out for years, this year the roll out from the burners started to send carbon monoxide in to the home … enough to cause headaches.
Old National-US boiler
After shutting down the boiler and advising the owners, it was decided to replace the boiler with a new Crown Aruba3 80% boiler. You can see on the picture above the indications from flame rollout on the front of the boiler.
New Crown Aruba3 80% boiler
We positioned the new Crown Aruba3 80% boiler to face 90 degrees from its original position. This will give the service technician easier access to both the boiler interior and exterior controls for maintenance and repairs if needed.
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This 90% Whirpool furnace has seen its last days. It has actually been dead for some time now, the owner finally decided to install a new American Standard 95% Standard furnace.
Old Whirlpool furnace
This Whirpool furnace had an option of 2 different BTU inputs, something I have never seen before. But being a 90% furnace its was very easy to swap over to an 95% American Standard.
New American standard 95% furnace
The American Standard 95% 2 stage variable furnace is by far my favorite furnace to install. I know exactly what to expect from this furnace and I have had zero factory issues with this model. Outside of making a few sheet metal transitions this American Standard standard 95% furnace was very easy to install as well. And like the 2 stage variable … no factory issues.
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This customer of mine had a Trane 90% furnace that was zoned. 1 Zone for up stairs and 1 for down stairs. It appears the system was designed correctly, but after digging deeper into the system we found it was not installed correctly. The poor installation contributed to the failure of the furnace.
After several conversations with my customer we had decided to move the furnace location and remove the zoning all together. Each floor would have its own American Standard 95% 2 stage variable speed furnace and duct system. In my opinion this should have been done to begin with.
Trane 90% furnace 2nd
The existing furnaces secondary heat exchanger was getting clogged and also was showing signs of external condensation on the heat exchanger. During the installation I found out why.
Existing Return System.
In the picture above your actually seeing into the return air system, its not uncommon to use chases or voids for return ducting. It is uncommon but not rare though for the return air to be blocked by insulation. During construction an insulator had no idea he was blocking the return by insulating the interior wall. By doing so all of the return air was being pulled from outside, during the winter this cold air would cause condensation on the heat exchangers and cause outrages heating bills.
New Furnace Location.
The new location had to be dug down to allow for the 2 new American Standard 95% furnaces. Above you see the area before we started.
Future Location
It was decided to add a block wall to help clean up the area and hold the soil back.
New American Standard furnaces in place
As you can see the new American Standard furnaces where placed on cladlite pads, ducting was divided from up stairs and down stairs then connected to the appropriate furnace. Honeywell 4″ pleated filters where used for filtering.
Heating And Cooling Skagit County
Need a Heat Pump, Air Conditioner, Furnace, Boiler or Tankless Water Heater? We install them all over Skagit county including Mount Vernon WA, Burlington WA, Anacortes, Sedro Woolley, La Conner, Stanwood WA, and on Camano Is.