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    Toughest Furnace for Routine Maintenance

    What's your most unfavorite gas forced air furnace to perform routine maintenance on? You know the feeling you get when you go to a house and set your tool bag down and dread the thought of doing any maintenance to the unit Tis' the season...
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    Any one that is in a dirt crawlspace, or hasn't been serviced in ??? years. (Or ever!)
    Where are you? Are you done yet? I got ONE more call for you.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by heatingairman View Post
    What's your most unfavorite gas forced air furnace to perform routine maintenance on? You know the feeling you get when you go to a house and set your tool bag down and dread the thought of doing any maintenance to the unit Tis' the season...
    The one I installed a year ago.....1st year PM's suck....

    The worse condition they are in...the better...
    I need a new signature.....

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    The ones they have to dig a hole for in the crawl space for the furnace so it will fit on its side in the crawl space.

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    Quote Originally Posted by clintkennon View Post
    The ones they have to dig a hole for in the crawl space for the furnace so it will fit on its side in the crawl space.
    LMAO!!! I remember a crawl in Indy where they installed an upflow Pulse when it should have been a horizontal. They dug a hole and put the furnace in the uplow position... INGENIOUS and P'O'D me!

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    The ones older than me.

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    Cockroach laden furnaces . Never again.

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    The ones with snakeskins around them.

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    Lennox Pulse,and CompleteHeat.CompleteHeat not a furnace but they are nightmare

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    Quote Originally Posted by bmathews View Post
    The ones with snakeskins around them.
    Second that.

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    Thumbs down

    Lennox whisper heats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by coolwhip View Post
    Lennox whisper heats.
    You better changer your way of thinking coolwhip!!!

    That new toy you just won over in the contest section will make those furnaces some of your favorites.....cha-ching!!!
    I need a new signature.....

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    Anything in a H.U.D. development , aka ghetto , urban development.
    I was burning the roaches away from the unit with my b tank and the journeyman i was working with told me to stop , it may embarras the HO. i Asked him who he thought fed them.
    That was 20 years ago , and i will never work on one again.
    You sure are cocky for a starving pilgrim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by I_bend_metal View Post
    You better changer your way of thinking coolwhip!!!

    That new toy you just won over in the contest section will make those furnaces some of your favorites.....cha-ching!!!
    Doesnt matter what tool ya got, they still suck to service. That new toy though will make it worth while fosho!

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    Quote Originally Posted by coolwhip View Post
    Lennox whisper heats.
    You're not kidding! It almost certain that the damper door spring will break, then the flame sensor ceramic will snap, then you have to pull the manifold to get the burners out, then....

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    The G20 is a cha cing as soon as I walk in and see it. Almost every one of those is cracked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Therm76 View Post
    The G20 is a cha cing as soon as I walk in and see it. Almost every one of those is cracked.
    where do they usaully crack at?

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    That you must find for yourself? Can't tip of the competition.

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    Thumbs down fan coils.

    The ones I hate the most aren't furnaces, but the over/tub fan coil units in condo's. Never can get door open without bending it, then roaches fall all over you, then no breakers, and always dirty blowers and coils.
    'Life begins with the journey each day'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Therm76 View Post
    The G20 is a cha cing as soon as I walk in and see it. Almost every one of those is cracked.
    Most crack because the furnace is oversized and the return is too small.

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