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Tom Durbin A/C and Mechanical

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I have placed six furnace categories
below, click on the one that pertains to
your questions. It will take you to a page
that I have created of my own viewpoints
as to that particular piece of equipment.
This will be my evaluation of each piece
based on 45 years of field time.

PROPANE FURNACE

PROPANE FURNACES IN THE TEXAS
MARKET ARE NATURAL GAS FURNACES
WITH A PROPANE CONVERSION KIT ADDED
TO THE FURNACE TO USED PROPANE FUEL..

With the invention of the Internet, customers now tell their air-conditioning man which
equipment they would like to purchase. They no longer asked for the valuable advice of
the technician that has spent years in the training of his position, to give them the best
possible choice for their current situation. Due to the slowdown of the economy a lot of
technicians are afraid to tell the customer what would be the better choice of heating
and cooling equipment for them, while privately thinking that they could lose there
company the job by recommending the better choice than their customer have selected.

Here is my personal evaluation of what is happened in the hvac industry with the newer
equipment. We have done a trade off, the trade-off is for safer equipment versus
reliable equipment. The older equipment that we all grew up with was much more
reliable and dependable in its functions, although it was not as safe. Safe being the key
word, if you had your choice would you rather have a safe gas furnace in your home or
a dependable gas furnace in your home.??? Very easy answer to that question.

There again anytime you have new technology you're going to have bugs in that
technology. We see these bugs in our field repairs on a daily basis, such things as
painted combustion air blowers that the paint flaked off, and then the paint chips gets
stuck in the orfice going to the air switch. Hot surface igniters made out of fragile
material, flame sensors that constantly have to be replaced, noisy combustion air
motors that wake you up in the middle of the night, rollout control switches that have to
be replaced every couple of years. Circuit boards that fail after every lighting storm
because of static electricity,remember all new equipment now have a computer circuit
boards in them. All these are problems that we see in the field daily that we would like
to inform our customers about as to who makes the most dependable furnace in the
current new equipment decade. Nobody wants to lose a job because they tell the truth,
but it goes back to what I originally said is that we have safer equipment now, not as
dependable, but safer. If I had to choose the swap off I would still choose a safer
equipment myself.