Arpi’s offers installations on numerous furnaces to fit your needs concerning performance, efficiency, and comfort. Is it time to replace your furnace and when is the best time to change your furnace? Best time to change your furnace is before cold weather arrives, talk to an HVAC professional to determine the correct size of system you’ll need. If equipment is “too big” it will often run for very short periods and often may not reach its optimal speed where it operates most efficiently. An oversized furnace will also waste energy as it frequently cycles on and off. These short runtimes will create areas in the home to be much warmer than others as indoor air will not get mixed.1 Winter energy savings - Set your thermostat back 3 degrees at night time to save an approximate 7 per cent seasonal heating energy savings2
- Install an energy star programmable digital thermostat
- Consider installing an energy efficient furnace
Government Rebates
On Sunday January 29th, 2012, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Minister Joe Oliver announced via the NRCan website and by way of a news release that the federal government would be officially closing the popular ecoENERGY Retrofit-Homes program to new registrants. The sudden closing of the program comes two months before its official end date on March 31, 2012. Homeowners who have already registered have until June 30, 2012 to get their post-retrofit evaluations and receive a grant. All retrofit renovations must still be completed by March 31, 2012. For more information, http://ecoaction.gc.ca/ecoenergy-ecoenergie/retrofithomes-renovationmaisons-eng.cfm Provincial rebate program information is available at www.climatechangecentral.com Things you may need to know when choosing a heating system AFUE
Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency: a higher AFUE rating means a higher efficiency unit. It measures the amount of heat actually delivered to your house compared to the amount of fuel that you must supply to the furnace. Thus, a furnace that has an 80% AFUE rating converts 80% of the fuel that you supply to heat -- the other 20% is lost out the chimney. BTU
A British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree F. This is the standard measurement used to state the amount of energy that a fuel has as well as the amount of output of any heat generating device.3
1Comfort Matters electronic issue by Lennox. 2008. Before you buy. [Online] [Accessed 16 September 2008]
2Comfort Matters electronic issue by Lennox. 2008. Before you buy. [Online] [Accessed 16 September 2008]
3Canadian Home Builders’ Association. 2008. CCHT helps advance housing innovations. [Online] [Accessed 6 June 2008]
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