moving furnace
#1
moving furnace
I am doing major renovation and want to move my gas furnace and water heat, both are 7 years old. I understand that I will have to re-do the ducts and the re-turns as well as run anew gas line and stack. My question is how complicated of a project is this?, it seems like fairly simple principles to me but my wife thinks I am crazy. It is an up-draft furnace that the prior owners installed upside-down as a down-draft and ran the ducts thought the crawl space. I want to centralize the location, install it upright and have the ducts feed from the ceiling of the 1st floor and the floors of the 3nd floor.
#3
Huh???
It is an up-draft furnace that the prior owners installed upside-down as a down-draft and ran the ducts thought the crawl space. I want to centralize the location, install it upright
What brand of furnace is this? Model Number?? If this an 80% or less effecenty, (Natural Daft) you can NOT turn this around.. Unless it's a newer style that is 90% that can be set up as a down-flow, up-flow, or horitzonal-flow, then you have to make sure everything is changed around to run as an up-flow furnaces. instead of a down-flow.
#4
furnace moving
are you using the same furnace? if so it must be a multipositional unit. BE SURE THIS IS THE CASE BEFORE INSTALLING. be sure to maintain 1/4 inch per foot rise on the flue, i would use doublewall pipe, may be code in your area. gas line needs to be hard pipe, not flexible copper or connector, flue schedules are included in your owners/install manual. i do not recommend you do it yourself, many factors involved, carbon monoxide, gas leaks, and you did not mention a/c, which would involve recovery and recharging. epa certification is necessary for this.