In article , Mike writes:
I just had an annual done on our 20-year old Lennox Pulse furnace. In
1998, due to a factory recall, the heat exchanger was replaced. The tech
told me today that he would expect another 20-25 years of life out of it.
The furnace is 90-96% efficient too.

As energy efficient as our house is, we passed on the pulse furnaces. The
builder had some bad experiences with them causing a resonating noise
through the entire house.

Of course you never know...and I am knocking on wood. I've heard of
furnaces dying after 6 years.

The furnace, AC, and water heater in my parent's home are all 27
years old. The Heil furnace has _never_ had an annual
cleaning/inspection. The AC needed a repair once. My dad doesn't even
bother draining the water heater...ever!

Heil? Tempstar? HeLl! I'd never buy one of their products again. My
heil/tempstar heat exchanger failed at about 5 years. Called a reputable
HVAC contractor to fix it. He did so, but told me to contact the company, as
there was a recall and the company should reimburse me for the problem. I
did, and they said that the recall had expired, so I was SOL. Of course they
never told us about the recall when it was in effect, even though we'd sent
in the supid card. I don't do business with companies that don't stand
behind their products.

Since then 2 other failures have been from design defects, including the
combustion intake blower that's mounted horizontally where all others are
vertical.

I realize that there are only a handful of furnace manufacturers, and that
many brands are relabels. Is there somewhere I can find a list of who owns
whom? IIRC heil/tempstar is now owned by Carrier...

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