Furnace Installation in Yonkers, NY
A new furnace here will run from October through May every year. Tell us about the house, and a licensed contractor who covers Westchester County will get in touch.
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Eight months of heat, and nights near 24 degrees
Yonkers homes need the furnace running from October through May. That's eight months of the year, and on winter nights that average 24°F, a new furnace has to hold up to a long, hard season, not just a few cold snaps.
More than half of homes here heat with gas, and any non-weatherized gas furnace made since November 2015 has to reach at least 80 percent AFUE. That's the floor, not a selling point. What matters more is sizing a new furnace to the house it's going into, so it can keep up on the coldest nights and still run right the rest of the season.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace is on duty
- 24°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 52%
- of homes here heat with gas, so most furnaces here burn gas
- 80% AFUE
- the federal minimum any new unit must meet
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A high-efficiency gas furnace would save about $120 a year to run in Westchester County compared with a gas furnace.
Estimates for a typical Westchester County home, from EIA household energy data, New York fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
- What size furnace does my house need?
- It depends on your square footage, your insulation, your ceiling height, and how many windows you have facing north. A contractor will run a load calculation on the actual house rather than guess from size alone. Two homes the same size can need different furnaces if one has old windows and the other doesn't. With winter lows around 24°F here, an undersized furnace will run constantly and still fall behind, so getting this number right matters more than in milder places.
- How do I know it's time to replace my furnace?
- Age is one sign, along with repairs that keep coming back and cost more each time. Watch for rooms that won't heat evenly, a furnace that cycles on and off more than it used to, or a jump in your gas bill with no other explanation. Since homes here need heat from October through May, a furnace that's struggling has very little of the year to rest between runs. If a breakdown on a night near 24°F is a real risk, that's worth weighing against another repair.
- Is a high-efficiency furnace worth it?
- For a house that heats 8 months a year, a high-efficiency furnace has more months to earn back the difference than it would somewhere with a short winter. Every new non-weatherized gas furnace sold now has to reach at least 80.0 percent AFUE, and high-efficiency models are built to beat that number by a wider margin. More than half of homes here heat with gas, so that efficiency gets used often rather than sitting idle most of the year. A contractor can walk through the specific models and what they'd mean for your house.