Noise of your new furnace does matter; Amana vs. American Standard

From HVAC-TALK.COM:

“I know you’re all dying to know how things are going with my Amana furnace . So….

Last Thursday I was offered a replacement American Standard Freedom 80 2 stage installed for $800 (don’t forget that this is on top of the full price I already paid for the Amana installed (somewhere between $2500 and $3000 cdn) ). Although I felt this was still an unfair amount of money for me to put out in this situation I agreed so I could finally be rid of the Amana and move on from this ugly scene.

The American Standard got put in this morning and the Amana was taken away.

OH MY GOD WHAT A DIFFERENCE!

I don’t cringe any more every time the furnace fires up. In fact I didn’t even notice when the furnace fired at all this evening.

When I was in the basement suite talking with my wife and aunt about 12ft away from the utilities closet they commented that this furnace is so much better. I asked ‘Is it on right now???’. They said ‘yes it is’. I had to run to the utility closet to confirm it was on. The sound of our conversation was able to mask the sound of the furnace. Imagine that.

Before I could tell from the floor above whenever the furnace was firing. In the mornings from my bed two floors up I could hear the Amana unit going…this floor is an addition to the original house and has no registers to carry any sound.

So I leave you all now in peace.

Cheers.

George.”

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