Posted: 7/24/2011 8:54:58 PM EDT
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I am finally going to finish off my basement. Approximately 1600 sq. feet of heated/cooled space. This will be a separate system from the main HVAC. I want gas heat and conventional cooling.
My questions to the HVAC techs are: What brand of system would you recommend? Tonnage rating for 1600 sq feet? SEER rating? What brands seem to have the most problems? Main system is a Goodman and has been serviced twice a year since new. Thanks for your input... |
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First off, ever notice how sometimes in GD you'll see threads asking for insurance company recommendations? And of course people will reply along the lines of "State Farm treated me right" or "USAA all the way", but then you'll eventually find someone posting how State Farm sucks donkey balls and USAA can go fuck themselves. Why? There's only so many different insurance companies and because so many people are customers of all of them, there will always be someone ready to post about how they were burned by Company X. It doesn't matter how great the company is, there will ALWAYS be someone out there ready to tell their story about how Company X screwed them over.
This is the same for a/c manufacturers. As for tonnage, who knows. No one on the internet is going to be able to accurately tell you how much you need. People throwing out numbers like 3 tons or 4 tons are just guessing. You need a heat load calculation performed on the area in question. SEER rating? Yet another thorn in my side. Looking at SEER ratings for residential equipment and seeing how prominently this crap is plastered in every sales brochure pisses me off. Just like how 3M enjoys putting in big bold letters on their pieces of shit filters how great their product is because they're up to like MERV 20 now. They keep impressing upon ignorant consumers that higher MERV number is better somehow, when it is not. SEER number has got to be one of the most misleading pieces of information ever constructed. If you truly want to perform apples to apples comparison of a product you need to get them to disclose the EER rating. Good luck. |