The most commonly used Torontoheating appliances to keep your home stay warm and cozy in the winter season are gas furnaces. The major factors for choosing them because they are working reliable, efficient and noiselessly.
- Gas Furnaces type in Great Toronto Area
There are many types of forced air furnaces with different
technologies used to meet energy efficiency and user ease levels. Furnaces drop
into two extensive types:
- Conventional type Furnace
- Condensing type Furnace
These two extensive types operate
very differently. In conventional types prior to cooling and condensing it use
to exhaust combustion gases firm and warm so the gases will exit the chimney vent
and heat exchanger is not collecting as much heat by the combustion process of
fuel. The arrival of the condensing type furnace that all changed. Condensing types
capture heat even after the combustion exhaust gases have "cooled"
and compressed. It uses two heat exchanger, one for primary heat exchange and
the other to handle the corrosive compressed exhaust gases of water and carbon
dioxide. These gases are causing heat till the water condensate drain out from the
heat exchanger and the vent gases escape from a plastic PVC pipe rather than a
chimney.
We can also categories furnace
according to the operation of a burner and blower know as Stage. The stage is describing
the operation of the furnace's burner and blower, and indirectly, the various
technology controlling the burner and blower. These stages grouped as single
stage, two stage and modulating stage.
The low cost type is single stage having one “on” stage for
both burner and blower. Two stage furnace has electric switch that allows to on
the burner flame and burner at high or low temperature, accordingly heat level
required. In modulating type have electronic system which controls burner and
blower motor that allows accredited regulations to the burner setting and
blower motor speed and modulates them to always keep the temperature of the
room very close to the thermostat setting.
Installation, repairs and replacement, Efficiency are something that actually matters, the metric used to measure furnace efficiency is called the AFUE rating, stands for Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency and it measures the amount of fuel converted to heat in the space in proportion to the amount of fuel which enters the furnace. If the AFUE are high the furnace will give high efficiency.
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Furnace
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AFUE Ratings
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Low
efficiency
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55%
--- 78%
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Mid
efficiency
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80%---83%
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High
efficiency
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90%---98%
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