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Installing a New Gas Furnace
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Installing a New Gas Furnace
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" Gas furnaces nowadays they've got about high tech -- the old floor rates and it happened would have been low tech right bills how does this one work well."
" This one this furniture is kept a few different features. Which make it a lot more efficient. One is that it's got variable capacity its first cheating goes there's a local fire there's a high fire. And it's little variable speed blower motor that uses only -- it moves only get on either it needs for taking so."
" Uses less electricity much less okay but where is the combustion came Greek and even. Well this is a combustion chamber here basically what happens. We bring in outside air for combustion. It through here it's -- seal system it to seal system which means that you're not using any of that warm conditioned air that's already in the heated envelope that we just needed for combustion you're you're taking cold air from outside and using that to support -- and by doing that we're -- or reduce any internal drafts that that you would have on an old -- efforts excellent. So what is the rating how -- These furnaces or at least some 9% range. That's amazing and he's out of every dollar that has been done fuel museum 90% of it in the house and only losing 10% out of -- We extract some achieved under the expert lessons that. The temperature of flue gases they actually being discharged her -- and by degrees which is the reason why you can just exhaust them with a piece of PVC pipe right. Right yes OK now the fascinating part of any forced air system is regulating it ended. Kind of getting it ducked into the different parts of the house and a little earlier we went over to Alex's shop to see how they make the dot. What's that machine called. This big plasma cutting system. Boy how's that working we get started you sure go ahead disagree about. --"
" Other work. We're using his electricity being compressed air and it's creating any oxygen rich tip and we're gonna we're gonna get -- Very carefully thought through there is no blame him. I don't know. Detested confirmed. Burned wood metal applied for a again it's not at all around in the way would be with metal cutters. -- where to go to right. It'll take all the few. Right compromise for. You've got very little. Now once all the pieces are cut how do you assemble. When -- machine gun very all the people who we'll take it and -- Crawford. Outperform."
" What you need to funny shapes you know the -- ductwork it reduces their one dimension to the next what's. Put the point. -- we're trying to maintain a consistent pressure in the duct system in as we read individual registers. We have to make people taller and ordered him and that velocity of their -- As a deck we're itself insulated. And this we use the -- climbing and that'll -- It'll reduce any velocity -- that's been. Transmitted with their float and move through and have them hot. And that'll act as an insulation you know have to worry about damp getting in the getting installation tool now of the installation itself is a glued in the can't -- there well I interrupted you but go ahead and finish. Flaw if anybody ever tried to do any work with. And snaps. You can really appreciate that tool at the Graco. And -- gonna cut insulation out of there right. And it. Is this the -- feed coming out of the planet. This is what's called supply part of the perspective of our -- well okay. They have from here tickets distributed to various ducts that are going to be different parts of the -- So this is your first transition. This is going to be a takeoff or huddled on the revenues. And that just gets tripped on the inside right Alex let me ask you about the hole in the bottom down here that's been cut out. What you do here. Recessed -- for the return air return airport. A return air duct that cold air return right okay and this is the housing authority variable speed electric band that we were talking about a minute ago. At the very -- people over."
