Furnace air filters

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:33 am

TPRJones wrote:It's not some big separate thing, though, lurking in the basement.

In NC mine was in the attic. I bet you have something somewhere and don't know it... "in the wall" it can't be maintained easily.

Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:17 pm

Nah, it's right there in the wall, and there's an access panel. The whole thing is about the size of a suitcase.

TheCatt's post explained everything, though. Electric is small and is all I'm used to in a heater. I'm guessing the reason all those other furnaces are so oddly huge is because they're buring oil, or butane, or whatever. And singing.

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Post by **Cakedaddy** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:33 pm

You must have a pretty small place too. Normally, the size of the furnace/AC is based on the size of the house that it has to work on. There's no way a small 'wall fan' would circulate through my house. Not saying I have a massive house. Just saying that a fan that could fit in the wall couldn't push enough air.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:48 pm

Cakedaddy wrote:You must have a pretty small place too. Normally, the size of the furnace/AC is based on the size of the house that it has to work on. There's no way a small 'wall fan' would circulate through my house. Not saying I have a massive house. Just saying that a fan that could fit in the wall couldn't push enough air.

Right... when I added a couple rooms on to my house in NC, my HVAC was then underpowered, and I needed to upgrade to a unit rated at "a ton and a half." Went from 1000 square feet to about 1500. Not sure what kind of unit of measurement that is, but that's what it is.