October 2025 - Why Your New Furnace Didn't Fix Anything
WYSL/ Wise Home Energy Show
Jeff Flaherty opens with New York's looming electricity production problem and why Ontario County just said no more gas hookups for new construction — at the same time the grid can't keep up with demand. From there he gets into the real work: a homeowner who got a new furnace and all new windows and is still cold because nobody touched the Cape Cod second floor, a mold problem that keeps coming back nine years after the "magic spray paint" fix, and a ridge vent that was installed without ever cutting the roof deck open — decorative ventilation, basically. He also explains why oversized furnaces are still being installed roughly 70% of the time, why the size of your furnace has nothing to do with the size of your old furnace, and why a high efficiency rating on a mismatched system is about as useful as a 150 horsepower motor on a canoe. Plus a candid take on why drive-by energy audits with no blower door aren't energy audits at all.
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