My friend just had his furnace die. Its a Bryant 350mav model and the heat exchanger corroded.
That furnace has been a pain in the butt every single year he's owned it. 4 out of 5 years it would burn out the hot surface ignitor, once we had to replace the main control board, then his fan started going bad, and now we discovered the heat exchanger is bad. What a piece of junk! This was supposed to be a high effeciency 90+ unit he purchased in 1998 and its been nothing but problems. What's funny is that its spotless clean and looks like it was installed yesterday. Even the heat exchanger looks clean.
So he wants to purchase a new furnace but he doesn't want to get one that has been engineered to put money in the pockets of repair people. (he does all his own repair work anyhow but it still a pain in the rear when it malfunctions in the middle of single digit temperatures outside)
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
That furnace has been a pain in the butt every single year he's owned it. 4 out of 5 years it would burn out the hot surface ignitor, once we had to replace the main control board, then his fan started going bad, and now we discovered the heat exchanger is bad. What a piece of junk! This was supposed to be a high effeciency 90+ unit he purchased in 1998 and its been nothing but problems. What's funny is that its spotless clean and looks like it was installed yesterday. Even the heat exchanger looks clean.
So he wants to purchase a new furnace but he doesn't want to get one that has been engineered to put money in the pockets of repair people. (he does all his own repair work anyhow but it still a pain in the rear when it malfunctions in the middle of single digit temperatures outside)
Any recommendations?
Thanks,