{"id":75380,"date":"2015-01-07T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=b7eef3df6eb516a0ee3d135ab9a499bd"},"modified":"2015-01-07T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:53:07","slug":"how-replacing-a-furnace-can-make-you-less-comfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/how-replacing-a-furnace-can-make-you-less-comfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"How Replacing a Furnace Can Make You Less Comfortable"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    The problem arises when upgrading to a high-efficiency unit        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-replacing-furnace-can-make-you-less-comfortable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/furnace-sealed-combustion-exhaust-intake-energy-vanguard-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Replacing a furnace\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say your trusty old furnace is at the end of its life. You&#8217;ve got to buy a new one, so you call your <span>HVAC<\/span><span>(Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Collectively, the mechanical systems that heat, ventilate, and cool a building.<\/span> company and they rush over to make sure you don&#8217;t freeze during the next cold snap. They go and take a look at your furnace and find its capacity. They come back and tell you that you have a furnace rated for 60,000 <span>BTU<\/span><span>British thermal unit, the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water (about a pint) one degree Fahrenheit in temperature&mdash;about the heat content of one wooden kitchen match. One Btu is equivalent to 0.293 watt-hours or 1,055 joules.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> per hour and then talk to you about some of the options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-replacing-furnace-can-make-you-less-comfortable\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12912,12913,4999,12914,6352,830],"class_list":["post-75380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-afue","tag-comfort","tag-furnace","tag-furnace-replacement","tag-high-efficiency","tag-hvac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}