Very high tech and efficient furnaces. I remember the forced air gas finance in my parent's house the new one was installed in the early 70's it was a big monster. Did a good job heating the house in the living room/kitchen area where ducts were closest to the furnace, but dropped off with long duct work towards the bedrooms.
Doesn't sound very "forced air" to me. My old gravity furnace was the same way, an hour after turning it on heat starts to trickle out of the registers. I will say though the entire basement was nice and warm and since heat rises... well it did it's job even if it was only about 30% efficient
@@Mike__B The furnace was located in our basement, which was a small sort of storage room, later I walled it off built a darkroom. leaving a doorway blocked with a light proof curtain to access the furnace/water heater and storage areas. The air intake duct was just above on the main floor of the house, less than 25 feet from my bedroom's heat register's. If I remember correctly, seven air registers were in the house. While I don't remember if the old furnace worked better, as to higher air flow, the new one did not. While not in my area of experience, I think the furnace we got was "undersized" did not have enough CFM for the duct work in the house. The house was built in 1946 duct could have been clogged up. A booster fan was not practical, since the heat from the forced warmed air would eventually burnout the fan's motor.
@@augustreil The house was built in 1946 I think the ducts were 8 or 10 inches in diameter they were well insulated. I still think the furnace was undersized as to the CFM rating of the blower not having enough capacity to reach the entire house. I remember the filter had to be charged quite often more than every 3 months. The old furnace which may or may have not been original to the house had to be replaced when the burner assembly cracked. One thing I will say about "lousy job" is the installer ran the gas above where the filter inset used to be and sealed it off. We had to open up the bottom of the cabinet to change it, by folding it.
@@TheTheo58, Yeah, My brother who's an HVAC guy, said the installer ran an 8'' flex duct with a too many bends, corners for the amount of run to the back bedroom. It's tough sometimes when they are limited to the amount of space they can work with.
I used to own a 1912 house in Rhode Island. It had a coal furnace, that had an oil burner stuck onto the side instead. It worked, but man did that thing suck up oil. The basement even had a coal chute to the outside so you could drop down coal from the driveway rather than carry it down the stairs.
From watching some of these videos. I found that setup you mentioned was a pretty common coal to oil conversion. My parents house, built 1919, also in Rhode Island had it as well.
Saw an old Sunbeam gravity furnace in a home just 3 years ago. Had a natural gas conversion on it. The home was a 1940s town home. Much of the home looked to be original, believe it or not.
In the beginning she said they make 1.1 million furnaces every year. At the end she said every furnace gets hooked up and tested at that little station. 1.1 million divided by 365 days per year = 3013 furnaces being tested at that little station per day, everyday of the year. Something about that doesn't add up. The person working at that station would have to be moving at lightning speed to keep with that amount of volume.
Good point. That would be over 125 furnaces every hour if that place ran steady 24 hours, 7 days per week. Heck, do you really believe that they are pushing 3,013 furnaces every day? Even with a 12 hour shift which is lengthier than most, that is 251 furnaces per hour!
Glad to see they went to a reputable manufacturer like Carrier (parent company of Bryant and others). These units are basically carriers with different badges. Good thing they didn’t go look at Nordyne or something.
Been working for a Carrier dealer doing residential installation for the same company for thirty years.i hate to say this but the quality of Carrier has gone down.we get so many with screws in the blower housing,wires not hooked up,and to me they should have a recall on the secondary heat exchange.bad design as they stop up,and yes we follow the factory instructions.such a great brand but going little to cheap
As a contractor I know they don't test every furnace due to the heat exchanger still having oil on the metal. This also coming from the company that refuses to assemble their old style heat exchanger.
My Grandmother bought her house in the early to mid 60s, the coal furnace was gone by that time of course, she died in 2007, we sold her house around 2010 the same 2 gas furnaces were maybe 50 years old or more and still working fine.......Also her huge house had an upstairs apartment with a gas wall furnace and that was still going strong too.
Got more efficient Goodman furnace worked for a year and computer board broke, was waiting for six weeks for replacement on warranty after fighting with thair warranty personnel on the phone.
Older gravity furnaces were great, there was nothing to do them, a huge metal box with a flame thrower inside and in an hour after it turns on you may feel heat :D. Of course the efficiency of them were absolutely horrible, but as a no frills device it worked great... oh yeah and given the age most were installed not a huge shock if every vent pipe was wrapped with asbestos :D
I'm surprised that not all the employees were wearing ear protection the plant manager Jenny was , with that hubbub of noise it makes sense for all to wear .
If they test every furnace i guess they have a lot of testing rooms then? The conveyor runs much faster than that testing chamber looked like so testing every one of them doesn’t add up.
It's too bad you can't buy one of these furnaces around here unless you're a licensed contractor. As a home owner regardless of your skill level in understanding/installing you're stuck at the price the installer tells you and it's absolutely shocking how cheap furnaces are (at least my 80% efficient model) compared to the quoted installed price.
@Supa Trending Daily Don't get me wrong you charge what you do to run a business, I get that. But I'm not asking for the "wholesale discount", I'm just asking to be able to buy a furnace in the first place.
The factory that I worked in Ireland for two years is a joke compared to this place . We made very similar products. Won't mention the name but would love to. No training, no tools and quality was disgraceful. This place looks very well ran and products being made to a high standard, good job.
Cost $750 back then to pay a top furnace mechanic to solve the problem. Same problem twice more since 2006, repaired under my service contract with utility company.
The 59 series heat exchanges from carrier are so far a very good heat exchanger assy. Unfortunately the 58 series condensing furnace heat exchanges are terribly.
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I was just thinking the same thing. Ive replaced so many of these heat exchangers. I laughed when the guy jammed the blower in without holding back the wires
bigtx77 Heat pumps are much more energy efficient than burning fossil fuels directly. And they are working on fussion reactors ( www.iter.org ), if those become online then the world is better be ready for 100% electric.
