Step-by-Step Guide for Installing a New Furnace

Replacing your old furnace in your home can be an easy enough task, if you are willing to do it. There is really no need to pay someone to do something that is simple enough to do by yourself. Unless you would rather a specialist to handle the job, just simply because you don't want to. But it is an easy enough job, and this step by step guide will help you accomplish "out with the old, and in with the new" furnace.

Before you buy a furnace:
- Take the time to measure doorways, room space, and the spot you plan o put the new furnace. Doing this will help you realize if the furnace you plan to get will fit into your home. And if it will go easily through doorways, to move it to the selected spot.
- Determine how much space in your home that you are wanting the furnace to heat. Each furnace will only heat a specific amount of space. You don't want to buy a small furnace that will only heat half a room when you want it for three rooms. Or a large furnace, but all you need is one room heated.
- Ask opinions, research furnaces, to find the best one for your home.

Installing the new furnace:
Check the instructions that come with the furnace first, to see if any assembly is required. Go over these directions thoroughly before you begin to replace the furnace.

- Turn off the gas.
- Detach the old furnace from the ducts.
- Change the ducts, if needed. Make sure they are in near perfect condition and are very clean. If not, this could turn out to be a hazard while hooking up the new furnace.
- Attach the new furnace up to the clean ducts.
- Hook the gas up to the new furnace.
- Turn the gas on. Wait a few minutes, if you smell gas, turn it back off. This could mean that the seal is not tight enough. Check your seal, and try again. If you still smell gas, turn it off, and call your gas company.
- After you are certain there is no gas leak and the furnace is hooked up correctly, it is ok to light it. But if there is a gas leak or gas in the air, turn the gas back off and contact your gas company's emergency number.

TIPS and REMINDERS
- Contact your gas company if there is a leak, or have any problems.
- Gas has a distinct rotten egg smell, this is how you know if there is a gas leak.
- If there is a gas leak, or you smell gas, get out of the house.
- It is not safe to inhale, or light anything if gas is in the air.