I don't know whether I should even tell you this, it may only piss you off.
I wish you had asked us about this, we might have been able to save you a BUNDLE. A friend of ours does HVAC, including furnace installs, and she gets them at wholesale rates, doesn't mark them up (or at least, not much, from what I could tell) and charges mostly for her labor. Ridiculously cheap.
Example: she installed a new 85% efficient, 55,000 BTU (small, but ones sized for a big house don't cost much more) Goodman furnace, and re-worked the ducts, and re-worked the gas supply line, for < $1,000. That's labor and price of furnace included. Goodman is the same as Amana, Janitrol, and a couple of other better-known brands. Of course, if one wanted a more expensive unit, she'd still be able to get it at a very low price compared to almost anyone in town, and unlike other installers, she doesn't mark up her hardware, she makes her money on her labor
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I meant to add, my example was the new furnace in our garage. For your house, you'd probably want a unit with more like 75,000 - 100,000 BTU output, I dunno. The installers have some formulae to figure it out, based on size of house and how well insulated, and the efficiency of the unit.
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I wish you had asked us about this, we might have been able to save you a BUNDLE. A friend of ours does HVAC, including furnace installs, and she gets them at wholesale rates, doesn't mark them up (or at least, not much, from what I could tell) and charges mostly for her labor. Ridiculously cheap.
Example: she installed a new 85% efficient, 55,000 BTU (small, but ones sized for a big house don't cost much more) Goodman furnace, and re-worked the ducts, and re-worked the gas supply line, for < $1,000. That's labor and price of furnace included. Goodman is the same as Amana, Janitrol, and a couple of other better-known brands. Of course, if one wanted a more expensive unit, she'd still be able to get it at a very low price compared to almost anyone in town, and unlike other installers, she doesn't mark up her hardware, she makes her money on her labor ( ... )
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BUT I Don't think I got a bad deal, when I put in my heated gargage I will be sure to get your friend's name!!
Thanks!
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