What’s the big secret?
There’s a guy selling a home furnace, and I want to see what the price of a new unit is. It’s a Carrier, and I’ve looked all over, and all I find are contractors and Carrier sites where the prices are not mentioned.
Where can I find the price of a new Carrier home furnace? Please!
Dunno if this will help (I know next to nothing about furnaces but Froogle is where I usually go to get an idea of how much something costs:
Call them, and haggle.
Carrier, Trane, et. al. are only sold through authorized dealers who have to have a certain size company, etc. As such, the final number will likely be a package price including removal and disposal of existing heating/AC equipment, installation of new equipment, and verification of proper operation. Bottom line is that you cannot purchase directly from those companies.
Smaller independent contractors like myself sell other brands. Heil is my favorite for warm air, Weil McLain for hydronic or steam. Some (very few) wholesalers will sell furnaces directly to the end user, but you will pay what I would charge you with markup. If you want an evaporator and a package condensing unit for your AC needs, forget it. Unless you have the EPA certification that I carry, it is illegal to sell that stuff to you.
Hope this answered your question.
Well, yeah, it answered my question alright. Convinced me to go ahead and buy the furnace and install it myself. Actually it’s a very simple job, I just didn’t want to crawl under the house. Gettin’ lazy. I don’t have or want ac, and the existing heater is one of those old floor convection things. The Stationary Engineers I work with filled me in on what to watch out for.
It’s a Carrier #58RAV115-20, plenty big enough to heat my little 900 sq/ft bungalow. For just $300, I can’t go wrong.
Thanks, all.
BTW; because I’m replacing a heater with a heater, “in kind”, I don’t even need a permit. 