Replacing furnace

[unclebilly]

Home heating is not sexy.

Home heating needs to be reliable.

Heat pumps have their applications, as do the high efficiency furnaces. At the end of the day, it is hard to beat the simplicity and reliability of an older mid efficient furnace.

I have a high efficiency furnace in my house and it’s been a learning curve. The old mid efficient furnace in my shop is pretty darn reliable.

[Skytrooper]

Originally Posted by cabmandone

Wow! Over the last 30 I've used $37 in electric and $7 in propane. I'm keeping my house at 70 and not using any setback. I used almost as much propane in one day as you have the last 18. Your place must be well sealed.

I apologize, I didn't write that post correctly.
The $3.07 and under a dollar is the average over the last 18 days. It is the daily average. (1.5 gallons of propane and about .75-1.00 bucks for electric). Of course the 500 gallon tank was already full from 10-15 years ago. I am sure the price of propane was much less then, but to due a cost analysis, you must factor at current prices. My current price for propane is 1.49 per gallon. This is 1/3 of the cost for the same volume of fuel oil. I would have burned considerably more fuel oil, so I am saving 2/3's of the former cost...just on the fuel. My electric usage since the new furnace is significantly lower for the same timeframe last year. So, all things considered, I have more dinero in my pocket.
Sorry for giving the wrong impression.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by Skytrooper

I apologize, I didn't write that post correctly.
The $3.07 and under a dollar is the average over the last 18 days. It is the daily average. (1.5 gallons of propane and about .75-1.00 bucks for electric). Of course the 500 gallon tank was already full from 10-15 years ago. I am sure the price of propane was much less then, but to due a cost analysis, you must factor at current prices. My current price for propane is 1.49 per gallon. This is 1/3 of the cost for the same volume of fuel oil. I would have burned considerably more fuel oil, so I am saving 2/3's of the former cost...just on the fuel. My electric usage since the new furnace is significantly lower for the same timeframe last year. So, all things considered, I have more dinero in my pocket.
Sorry for giving the wrong impression.

You might have written it correctly and I misunderstood. There's always that possibility with me.
Either way, good deal that you're seeing savings. I have 1.54 plugged in because I messed up and missed the summer fill rate.

[cabmandone]

Cheese n crackers! 11 degrees out now and windy. Heat pump is keeping the house at 70. It'll be interesting to see how much electricity and gas get used today. When I woke up I noticed the furnace was on and running at low fire. Not sure is
f temp dropped below setpoint or not so I'm watching the thermostat. I can't believe this thing is heating the house with the conditions the way they are. I'd think if I lived in a modern home this thing would do the job without a problem. I live in an old farmhouse that is sealed to the minimum standards today (took a lot of work to get it to that level) and it's doing the job.

[Skytrooper]

Nick, I am glad to hear that your system is doing such a great job !

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by Skytrooper

Nick, I am glad to hear that your system is doing such a great job !

I'm really just blown away by the performance of this thing. I never thought it would be able to do what it's doing.

EDIT: I got to look at energy use the day after posting. It was almost equal in dollars spent on electric ($4.84) and gas $4.03 but the heat pump did the bulk of the work throughout the day. At some point I'm going to switch the temperature cutoff for the heat pump to a higher temp and let the furnace run for an entire day just to see how much propane it uses then drop the temp to let the heat pump do the work on back to back days where there will be similar conditions