What is the expected life span of a furnace or air conditioner?
Fifteen to twenty years is the industry average. However, poorly made or inappropriately chosen equipment won’t last as long. For example, one customer contacted us because her heat pump wasn’t working. Upon inspection, we found that the heat pump was covered in rust and beyond repair – and the unit was only five years old! So what had happened? Whoever the installer was had put in a heat pump that had double the capacity required for the house. The excess capacity was able to satisfy the thermostat so quickly that the unit never ran long enough to dry out. (The story has a happy ending. We replaced it for her, and her new smaller-capacity heat pump is four years old, works great – and doesn’t have a spot of rust.
