My house already had a forced air oil furnace in place when the people I was with and I moved in.

• There is air duct installed inside walls & ceilings that carries heated air to each of the rooms.

The stale air is drawn out & heat is introduced through supply & return vents. I’m not overly impressed with the operation & comfort level gave by this style of furnace. Since heat naturally rises, the highest temperatures are near the ceiling. As soon as the heat leaves the vents, it floats straight upward. Unless I want to kneel on a ladder, it does me little good. I need to set higher control device settings in an attempt to keep the lower half of the room adequately warm. Plus, the air from the ducts often carries contaminants such as dust, bacteria, pollen, dander & mold spores. It disadvantagely impacts the health & cleanliness of the home. During the Wintertide weeks, I need to dust & vacuum a lot more often. There’s also problems with overly dry air & energy losses because of the leaks & holes in the air duct. The average duct plan allows approximately 30% of conditioned air to escape. A perfectly ran tests on duct plan still sacrifices around 4% of the heated air. The oil furnace is also noisy. I wish it was feasible to tear out the oil furnace & upgrade it with a boiler furnace. A boiler uses water rather than air to transfer heat. The operation is virtually silent & as a closed system, it’s especially clean. The heat is radiating into the air rather than blown in, so the highest temperature remains near the floor. There’s no drafts, no freezing spots or temperature stratification & because water heats up quicker than air, the boiler doesn’t need to work as hard.
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