As a continuation on the series about timing of renovations and home upgrades, the best time to replace your heating system is after insulating your walls and attic and ultimately, when it is showing its age. If you have just installed a new system, this is not the time. If, like ours, your system is over 35 years old, it's time to start planning. Obviously it's not ideal to allow your system to completely die before replacing it. When you are ready to replace it, move away from fossil fuels. There are several systems out there that are very much in the mainstream. Just because you currently have a gas furnace, doesn’t mean that you can’t upgrade to an all electric one. Don’t worry, I’m not talking about electric resistance, which is expensive to run. I’m talking about a heat pump. These are super efficient and relatively inexpensive to run.
Again, there are often government sponsored programs that can help you pay for this. Mass Save will cover $10,000.00 of an air source heat pump, and $15,000.00 of a ground source heat pump.
Our existing, dated gas furnace.
We have decided that it's time to upgrade. We had an issue with the furnace last year on a zero degree day and woke up to a very cold 40 deg. F. house. It was fixable, but in the end, this furnace is over 35 years old, and pretty inefficient. We are working with Mass Save to do a new, whole home heating system switch. The new system will be a Mitsubishi mini split heat pump system. I'll post an update after the project is completed in a couple of weeks!