Don’t Shirk on Heating System Installation  

When it comes to installing a furnace in your Cincinnati area home, avoid taking any risky shortcuts. A poorly installed or selected furnace not only will lead to discomfort for home occupants; it likely will cost you in higher energy bills and even pose safety risks.

And these aren’t short-term problems – installing a central heating system is a major job, so once your new furnace is operating, you’re likely stuck with it (and any furnace repair issues that result from a poor installation job) for many years into the future. Do you want to still be facing the consequences of a poor decision now some 20 years into the future?

Getting the Correct-Size Furnace

As with any HVAC installation, it’s crucially important to have a new furnace correctly sized. This means having your contractor perform a heating load calculation (using the standard Manual J installation protocol) that takes into account a variety of factors that determine how much heat is needed to make your home comfortable.

Those factors include:

  • The size and layout of your home, including how many floors it has
  • what building materials it’s composed of
  • how many windows it has and how they’re situated with the sun
  • the energy efficiency of your home, with regard to such things as airtightness and insulation
  • the age and history of your home
  • its orientation on the lot and
  • to what degree trees shade parts of the house

Once an HVAC contractor has determined your house’s heating load, they can recommend the correct size of heating system. At this time, they may also recommend advanced features to consider to enhance efficiency and performance.

Why Proper Furnace Sizing Is Essential

While under-sizing a furnace installation has an obvious disadvantage (the furnace will struggle to heat your home), over-sizing can be just as bad (and tends to be much more common than under-sizing).

A furnace that’s too big for a home will short-cycle – it will quickly heat the home to the thermostat setting and then stop, then repeat that process frequently. A furnace tends to burn the most fuel during start-up, so lots of stops and starts translates into energy waste. However, short-cycling also will increase stress on the equipment, hastening the time when the furnace needs repairs or wears out. Finally, short-cycling may deliver unbalanced heating in your home and result in inadequate air filtration.

At Jansen Heating and Cooling, you can trust us to install the new furnace professionally, with an eye toward energy efficiency, comfort and safety.

We offer a variety of products, in a variety of efficiency levels and options for advanced features. We’ll also make sure the furnace is the right size and capacity for your home.

Our 100-Percent Satisfaction Guarantee

Jansen guarantees 100-percent customer satisfaction on the quality of our HVAC service work, and provides an all-inclusive lifetime workmanship promise on the products and installation of your system.

If you’re not totally happy with an HVAC installation, Jansen will do whatever it takes to ensure your ultimate satisfaction.

If you’re not working with one of the best HVAC companies in Cincinnati to install your new cooling or heating system, you may live to regret it.

Choose the Best Company for Ductless AC Installation

An increasingly popular option for heating and cooling in residential spaces is installation of ductless AC and heating systems. Ductless system (sometimes called “ductless mini-splits”) provide efficient cooling and heating in smaller spaces, with the ability to control temperatures remotely in that space. These systems have a variety of uses, including to cool or heat a garage into a living space, to condition difficult to cool or heat spaces, to replace portable cooling or heating units, to condition add-on rooms, or to heat or cool an entire house, with several units. Mini-splits perform these jobs efficiently.