Enjoy whole-home comfort with a high-efficiency natural gas furnace. Surrounded by warmth, capture the cosy moment of reading a favourite book. From the basement to the bedroom, the family room to your kitchen. Natural gas energy and your home, the perfect fit.
A high-efficiency natural gas furnace, also known as a condensing furnace, is the most energy efficient furnace available. Yielding 88 to 97% efficiency, it provides your home with ideal heating comfort
while using less energy than lower efficiency models. It is designed to extract additional heat from natural gas and, when it does, the flue gases condense, or turn to water, hence, the name condensing furnace.
The high-tech design of your high-efficiency natural gas furnace squeezes the most heat out of every heating dollar. For every dollar you spend on energy, it produces 88 to 97 cents worth of heat. You could save up to 24% (97 AFUE - 78 AFUE) in energy and related energy costs. Its high-efficiency will also help to insulate you from increasing energy prices. Your heating contractor can assist you in calculating the approximate savings a high-efficiency furnace will bring you.
Another advantage of a high-efficiency natural gas furnace is that it exhausts directly through the basement wall to the outdoors, eliminating the need for a chimney. Some units have a direct source of combustion air from the outdoors, eliminating the need for a separate source of combustion air. This option is especially good for energy-efficient, airtight homes.
A high-efficiency furnace is vented directly through an outside wall with low-cost plastic pipe, allowing for flexibility of furnace placement. This offers you the ability to reconfigure your furnace room.
As with any furnace, an annual maintenance check of your high-efficiency natural gas furnace will help it continue to operate at peak efficiency, last longer, and save you money year after year.