Let it begin....frozen pipes and furnace on fritz

[femurphy77]

Had the same thing happen to me when I first moved to Indiana, turned out to be a loose wire at the disconnect in the heater closet. Cut and cleaned up the wires and relanded them and heated happily ever after.

 

[femurphy77]

CM sure got around, didn't he. Mine was one of his last installs, furnace and AC unit. He came all the way up to NWI to do it, he and his son, and did a fine job. Rest in peace, Sir. You earned it!

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I was planning on having him do ours but we weren't able to do it until just recently.

 

[femurphy77]

Mine ran all night, with occasional interruption by the backup heat. Its almost brand new though. My old one wouldn't of kept up at all.

We just installed a 97% efficiency unit and it will run all the time trying to satisfy the thermostat setting. It does it but literally runs all the time. While we didn't use any gas in November our electric bill went up $59 over the same time frame last year.

Ours isn't adjusted right yet as it isn't cutting over to gas until its WAY out of range for the heat pump, so we'll be talking to the installer next week.

 

[firecadet613]

We just installed a 97% efficiency unit and it will run all the time trying to satisfy the thermostat setting. It does it but literally runs all the time. While we didn't use any gas in November our electric bill went up $59 over the same time frame last year.

Ours isn't adjusted right yet as it isn't cutting over to gas until its WAY out of range for the heat pump, so we'll be talking to the installer next week.

Depending on your thermostat, it likely has some settings you can change.

I have my auxiliary heat locked out at anything above 10° and it's been kicking on and off all night, but it's done a fine job of keeping the place warm.

Our other house has a natural gas forced air system and it's slightly undersized (thanks Centex and the previous owner that had it built). It runs non stop when it's this cold out but the ventless fireplace I put in picks up the slack and then some...

 

[Nugget]

We just installed a 97% efficiency unit and it will run all the time trying to satisfy the thermostat setting. It does it but literally runs all the time. While we didn't use any gas in November our electric bill went up $59 over the same time frame last year.

Ours isn't adjusted right yet as it isn't cutting over to gas until its WAY out of range for the heat pump, so we'll be talking to the installer next week.

Our neighborhood is 100% electric, so it's the heat pump's job to keep it warm, with the electric aux heat for backup. This is our first winter with our new system (installed in July) so im interested to see how the electric bills compare to last winter.

 

[dudley0]

Yeah, CM walked me thru a bunch of crap that my pretend furnace guy did. Said he would drive up and have a look, but I got it patched before that was needed.