FURNACES

Furnace Installations: Chances are, you're paying a lot more for natural gas than you should be. If you have a furnace installed before 1995, it is probably only only 60-70% efficient, and very old furnaces can be less than 50% efficient. You can now upgrade to a furnace that runs at 95 percent efficiency with House Smart Home Improvements. A new furnace installed by our experienced team can save you money, and even pay for itself in as little as 5 years. Installing a new furnace can reduce your heating costs by up to 40 percent!

You can now upgrade to a furnace that runs at 95 percent efficiency with House Smart Home Improvements. A new furnace installed by our experienced team can save you money, and even pay for itself in as little as 5 years.
Installing a new furnace can reduce your heating costs by up to 40 percent!

Government Grants Now Available on New Energy-Efficient Furnaces:

Grants are available from the Provincial LiveSmart BC Program. You may now receive as much as $770 in grant dollars for installing a 95% efficient variable speed furnace. More on Government Grants.

Natural gas prices have more than tripled in the past 10 years, and many analysts are forecasting further price increases. You can fight this statistic and make a difference in what you pay for your heating bills now and in the future, by having a new energy-efficient furnace or heat pump installed in your home.

All About Furnaces~

The efficiency of new furnaces is measured by the annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE), a measure of seasonal performance. Furnaces today are between 78% AFUE and 96% AFUE. Traditional "power combustion" furnaces are 80-82% AFUE. Above 90% AFUE, a furnace is "condensing," which means it recaptures some of the heat wasted in traditional systems by condensing escaping water vapor.

High Electrical Efficiency.

A furnace can use a significant amount of electricity, mostly to power the fan motor. Variable speed fan motors are generally more efficient than standard (“PSC”) motors and may save you hundreds of dollars per year.

High efficiency furnaces typically cost more than average and low- efficiency furnaces. However, they tend to cost less to operate on a month to month basis as they use less fuel to generate the same amount of heat. Therefore, after a given payoff period, high efficiency furnaces tend to cost less than low efficiency furnaces.

Gas furnaces generally have the highest energy efficiency, with anything over a 95 percent AFUE being extremely good. With oil furnaces, any AFUE rating over 80 percent is very good.

Besides fuel type, another big contributor to AFUE is the type of blower or fan on your home furnace. A variable speed fan operates less expensively than a single speed fan, and it allows furnaces to heat for less by gently blowing comfortable warm air rather than blasting jets of hot air. A variable speed fan also keeps temperature swings to a minimum.


Proper Sizing

We can make sure the heating capacity of the furnace is not too high for your home. Most furnaces are substantially oversized.

An oversized furnace (one whose capacity is too large) costs substantially more to operate than a correctly sized furnace. This is because oversized furnaces typically cycle on and off more often than correctly sized furnaces, and cycling on and off is more expensive than running at steady state.

The only way to know if your furnace is correctly sized is for a contractor such as House Smart Home Improvements to do a load calculation. A load calculation takes into account the size of your house, the insulation value of your windows, the amount of insulation in your walls and roof, and a host of other criteria to determine the appropriate furnace capacity.

* HOUSE SMART HOME IMPROVEMENTS SPECIALIZES IN :
• Replacement windows and doors • furnace upgrades • heat pumps •
programmable thermostats • air conditioning • hot water tank
• tankless hot water tanks • attic insulation • crawl space and wall insulation
• draft proofing • ventilation and bathroom fans.


Areas of Service Include:
Vancouver, Surrey, Langley, Coquitlam, Delta, Richmond, Ladner, Tswassen, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, New Westminster, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Burnaby, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Aldergrove, and more in Vancouver's Lower Mainland areas.