Am-Cat’s Team Ventilation Mechanical licensed vendors HVAC Technician will install all connections with the NEW HVAC Unit to the existing ductwork that will cost $6500 – $8550 per High-efficiency furnace RunTru by Trane 60,000 btu, 95% efficiency 2.5-ton ac RunTru by Trane (Ac unit outside.) Evaporators coil new thermostat, Honeywell.

HVAC Installation Cost Per Square Foot 1000sf $4,000 – $5,000 1200sf $5,000 – $6,000 1500 sf $6,000 – $7,500 2,000sf $7,500 – $10,500 If a new unit needs to be installed without updating existing ductwork, labor am-cats on average of $5,650 to $7,600. install a 3-ton air conditioner is $8,000 to $10,500. a 3-ton, split system unit with a SEER rating of 16, fully installed with modifications to existing ducts.  3-ton is equal to 36,000 BTU. If you apply the 20 BTU per sq ft rule of thumb, you can see that a 3-ton air conditioner cools about 1,800 square feet spaces. A common rule of thumb is to assume that a standard HVAC unit can cool around 400 square feet of residential space per ton of cooling capacity. When calculating the power, you need to cool your home, you can assign 12,000 BTUs that need to be cooled per 400 square feet of property.  It is recommended that when your home is between 600 to 900 square feet, a 1.5-ton A/C unit can supply the cooling that you need. Meanwhile, you need two tons if your home is more than 900 square feet up to 1,200 SF. If you need a 5-ton air conditioner to cool the space, regardless of type. The national average cost to install a 5-ton AC unit is $7,000 to $12,000, with most homeowners spending around $10,000 on a 5-ton split system installation with a SEER rating of 16 and a new concrete pad. Most homes from about 2500 to 3000 square feet require a 5-ton air conditioner.

High-Efficiency Furnaces:

One of the main features of a high-efficiency gas furnace is that it saves more energy compared to older ones. When you buy this type of furnace, it’ll consume less energy to keep your space warm. As a result, your monthly heating cost will go down, and save money on heating bills. A high-efficiency gas furnace has 90% or higher AFUE ratings, up to a maximum of 98.5% AFUE. It stands for Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency and measures how much heat the furnace can pull from the fuel it consumes, ultimately determining how energy efficiency is used in the heating and cooling system. One of the main benefits high-efficiency furnaces provide is cheaper energy bills. The high-efficiency rating means these heating systems use less gas to heat your home, potentially saving thousands on utility costs in the long run. Also, take note that high-efficiency furnaces do take longer to heat up when the furnace needs to bring the temperature up several degrees, it will use the highest setting. However, it will usually just need to use the lower stage. The heating cycle will be longer, but the energy consumption is lower.

80% Efficiency Furnaces:

For example, an 80% AFUE for a gas furnace means the furnace outputs 80 BTUs of useful heat for every 100 BTUs of natural gas it burns. The remainder may be wasted heat in the exhaust. Furnaces with 90% or higher AFUE are considered high efficiency in the HVAC industry. The differences between 80% and 95% furnaces. A standard efficiency furnace provides 80% annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE). In this type of furnace, 20% of the energy produced by natural gas is expelled as exhaust. High-efficiency furnaces offer 90% or more AFUE. If you want higher long-term savings and can afford the higher upfront cost, go with a 96% furnace. If you’re on a tight budget and want the lowest upfront cost, go with an 80% furnace. It will still adequately heat your home, but you’ll have higher energy costs in the winter. Federal law requires that minimum furnace efficiency in the Northwest must be 90%. That means that 80 percent of furnaces will be phased out.

96-Efficiency Furnaces:

You’ll pay more for a 96% furnace. However, a 96% furnace is much more efficient than an 80% furnace, which means it can save you more money over time. If a furnace is rated at 80 AFUE, that means it will waste 20 cents of each dollar you spend on heating. In contrast, a 96 AFUE furnace will only waste 4 cents. That might not sound like a huge difference, but it adds up over the winter. Using high-efficiency furnaces means cheaper energy bills as you use less natural gas. Using less fuel is one of the ways it helps offset the upfront cost of a new heating system. With natural gas fuel expenses rising, the higher efficiency gas furnace you have, the kinder you will be to your wallet in the long run! And it’ll add up over your furnace’s lifetime, which is typically 15–20 years. High-efficiency furnaces cost more to install. But high-efficiency furnace problems will result in more repairs and required maintenance to keep these furnaces running properly.

If your furnace is 90% efficient or greater, you probably have PVC pipes coming out of the wall of your home that look something like those pictured here. These pipes allow the furnace to intake fresh air and to safely vent flue gasses out of the home. Suitable materials for the vent and condensate pipes include PVC (polyvinyl chloride), CPVC (chlorinated polyvinyl chloride), and ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) plastic pipe, depending on the furnace’s specified exhaust gas temperature. This combination of carbon dioxide and water would damage the type of vents used in conventional systems which run vertically out of a home. To combat this issue, high efficiency condensing furnace uses PVC pipes to extract the acidic water from your home. Most furnace systems have a 2-pipe system where one pipe intakes fresh outside air and the other vents flue exhaust gases to the outside.

Most people think that only air conditioners have condensation. And while ACs do create a steady stream of water while running, some furnaces have condensation too. As a result, high-efficiency furnaces (also called condensing furnaces) require condensate drains because their exhaust gases are cool enough to allow the moisture in them to condense from steam into water droplets. A high-efficiency furnace will always have condensation as a byproduct of heating your home. A floor drain is necessary for your high-efficiency furnace because the water has to go somewhere, and a floor drain is the easiest and most effective outlet. The condensate drains out of the furnace’s drain lines. But problems arise when one of your furnace’s drain lines gets clogged.