Home Furnaces - AFUE Ratings and Your Home Furnace

Are you looking for a new home furnace to keepturning fuel into energy to make your home
you warm these winter months? Before you buywarm. If, for example, a heating system has the
just any type of furnace you find available, takerating of 80, this means that 80% of its fuel is
time to find out what AFUE ratings are and whyturned into energy, while only 20% is emitted as
you should look for them when you buy a homeexhaust.
heating system.The higher the AFUE rating of a furnace, the
Keeping warm during winter is crucial to one'shigher its efficiency. With an efficient fuel
health and well-being. And in order to stay asconsumption system, you also get to save up on
warm as a bun in the oven in your home when itmoney and help save the earth!
is snowing outside, you have to get yourself aSo, if you're going to shop for a furnace any time
good furnace. After all, you would not want to sitsoon, make sure the first thing you check for is
at home wearing scarves and mittens, do you?their AFUE rating. Compare the ratings of
Do you know what AFUE ratings are? If youdifferent models and brands and find one that
don't, take time to read and find out.suits your home's needs and budget.
An Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE) ratingGood luck!
measure the efficiency of a certain furnace in