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My furnace is 19 yrs. old and heat exchanger is shot.. we have oil hot air --
Oil Co. wants to give us a new Armstrong furnace for about $3,500.
our second opinion says Lenox is a better furnace. What do we do? Is a Lenox well known to service people who may need to do repair (oil co. says Lenox not well known to service guys)

Submitted: 90 days and 8 hours ago.
Category: HVAC
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The beauty of oil furnaces is the oil guns are pretty much the same . Beckett, Wayne, Honeywell controls etc. The Lennox is known as first tier equipment due to being well and widely known. The Armstrong is a second tier known more foe being a bit more affordable. With the oil furnace it will be the better heat exchanger you will want. The advantage of Lennox is wide availability of parts. So in a nut shell the only parts servicemen will be working on primarily is the oil gun and those are pretty much the same. Sounds like someone really wants you to buy a Armstrong.

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Answered: 8/24/2009

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