We have a forced air system with a gas furnace which is at least 40 years old and we are thinking of replacing now before it breaks one cold winter weekend night. We imagine this might also lower monthly gas bills a bit and we can pay it back slowly that way.<\/p>\n
Lots of plumber\/HVAC people we’ve called don’t do forced air systems, so we’ve gotten two estimates, each for $6,000 each for the new furnace. Anyone know someone great they recommend?<\/p>\n
We’re also considering a new hot water heater at the same time… right now we have 40 gallons for 3 apartments and it’s not quite enough some mornings. Our furnace room isn’t big enough for a 75 gallon tank, one plumber told us, so we can either get two 40 gallon tanks, or one big water heater and keep it outside the furnace room. The estimate we’ve gotten for hot water heater was $1500… <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have a forced air system with a gas furnace which is at least 40 years old and we are thinking of replacing now before it breaks one cold winter weekend night. We imagine this might also lower monthly gas bills a bit and we can pay it back slowly that way. Lots of plumber\/HVAC…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-47042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/forced-air-gas\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Forced Air Gas Furnace and Hot Water Heater","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/forced-air-gas\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/forced-air-gas\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"slopegirl"}],"creator":["slopegirl"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-08-02T14:18:04Z","datePublished":"2010-08-02T14:18:04Z","dateModified":"2010-08-02T14:47:35Z"},"rendered":"