Replacing Your Furnace Does Not Require That You Replace Your Air Conditioner

So you either want to or need to replace your furnace. Money is tight and you can not afford to replace the air conditioner at the same time. This is no problem and do not allow yourself to be talked into changing them both out. The furnace can easily be changed now and the air conditioner kept intact or replaced at a later time.

Talking with your contractor frankly about what you want is always a good policy. If you have an old furnace that needs to be replaced, or if your furnace develops a cracked heat exchanger, many contractors practically demand that you change everything at once. This is not the truth and you need to know that changing either the heating or cooling sides out independently is very possible.

Now I will say that from a contactors point of view that I would always feel out the customer to see if they were willing to change everything. Hey, while you are in the mess of changing one it does make it easier to do both and the total price of the contract is higher which is always nice as far as the contractor goes. But from a homeowners point of view the money is not always available to do what you would like to do. So you need to just bite off a bit at a time, even if it costs a bit more in the long run.

Find a contractor that is willing to work with you. This may not be the lowest price, but the contractor that will work with you will give you the best job and make you the happiest. If you tell the contractor that you need to make the air conditioning last a year or two longer, but that you want to do it then, he can make provision for that change and make that change easier when the time comes along.

For most systems changing out the furnace just involves installing temporary supports to hold the indoor coil while the furnace is taken out from underneath it and then the coil is just lowered back down onto the new furnace. With a little forethought and care this can happen very easily. I have done this many times and it will work great!

Good communication is the best way to get what you want. If you are talking and the contractor is not listening to what you want, then do not buy from him no matter how good the price is. Find the contractor that is willing to listen to you and mesh his plan with yours to give you the system that you deserve and can afford.