Furnace Installation in Montrose, CO
A new furnace here will run from October through May every year. Tell us about the house, and a licensed contractor who covers Montrose County will get in touch.
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Montrose asks a furnace to run eight months of the year
From October through May, your furnace is what keeps the house livable. Winter nights average 18°F here, and most homes in Montrose County heat with gas.
That long season means more hours on the burner and more starts on the parts that light it. Any furnace installed new has to meet a federal minimum of 80 percent AFUE if it's a standard non-weatherized gas model. Worth asking about a backup plan too. Montrose County has seen 202 winter storms and 53 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and statewide, 13 percent of households lost power for a full day or more in 2024.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace is on duty
- 18°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 62%
- of homes here heat with gas, so most furnaces here burn gas
- 80% AFUE
- the federal minimum any new unit must meet
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A high-efficiency gas furnace would save about $90 a year to run in Montrose County compared with a gas furnace.
Estimates for a typical Montrose County home, from EIA household energy data, Colorado fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
- What size furnace does my house need?
- There's no single number that fits every house. It depends on your home's square footage, insulation, window count, and layout. A contractor works this out with a load calculation, which looks at how much heat your home actually loses on a cold night, not just its size on paper. That matters here, since your furnace has to keep up with winter lows averaging 18°F. A furnace that's too big cycles on and off too often, and one that's too small will run constantly and still leave rooms cold.
- How do I know it's time to replace my furnace?
- Age is the first thing to look at. An older furnace works harder to keep up, and repairs start becoming a bigger gamble than replacement. Watch for other signs too. Rooms that heat unevenly, a furnace that cycles on and off more than it used to, or a rise in gas bills without a reason. Homes here need heat from October through May, eight months of the year, so a furnace on its way out gets tested hard and often. If a contractor is repairing the same furnace more than once a season, that's usually the point to start pricing a replacement instead.
- Is a high-efficiency furnace worth it?
- It depends on how much you heat your home and what furnace you have now. Any furnace built after November 2015 already has to reach at least 80 percent AFUE, so the real question is whether a more efficient model makes sense for your house. With heat needed eight months out of the year here, a more efficient furnace has more months to make up the difference in what it costs to run. A contractor can walk through your current furnace's efficiency against a new one and price out what that upgrade would actually look like for your home.