Recent content by Thurston Willhelm III

10 SEER, I believe 2.5 ton Bryant - model 661CJ030-E Replacing heat pump and exchanger and cleaning lines - next will be the blower or control board - vs higher efficiency new. Converting to NG sounds like a good path to investigate, but the new ones at ALPINE are only 13 SEER. Need to crunch...

Well I guess limping along in emergency heat mode is not even the temporary path to take!!! Thank you for that valuable bit of detail. Seems like such a waste to toss the functioning heating portion and blower portion (and box/controls) of the unit and replace it, but I guess I'm too penny...

New to owning a house, my 8 year old HVAC heat pump fan seemed to be running a long time, (didn't pay much attention to it)seemingly all the time, in February!!! (30-40 degrees outside). Sure enough, got an 800 dollar electric bill for then, double the coldest 400 dollar bill of previous, cold...