Best HVAC Air Conditioner Brand To Buy

hey guys jay here with word of advice tv on many of my videos in the comments sections people have been asking me for furnace and air conditioner what brand would i recommend what is the most reliable what is the best brand out there to get for a new air conditioner or a new furnace and my answer always is don't get too caught up on the brand for your furnace or your air conditioner the brand doesn't really matter because the truth is a handful of companies a handful of mother or parent companies own all of the brands so my recommendation is just go for the best deal whatever costs you the least amount because most air conditioners and furnaces will last on average about the same amount of time and it's really hard to say which brand is the best because there's a ton of variables that come into play like how big is your house what is the layout of your house was the ductwork sized properly in your house do you replace the furnace filter regularly what kind of furnace filter do you use do you ever host down your outside unit do you ever do any kind of maintenance and etc etc etc and of course that is just my opinion but consumer report did a survey on over 20 000 homeowners where they asked them what brand of ac or furnace they have how often they had to get it repaired when they had to get it replaced and would they recommend that unit to a friend and here are the results that they got there's five brands that they would not recommend they got the lowest ratings and those five were coleman frigidaire luxaire maytag and york so those five apparently you should avoid because people have been having the most problems with those five brands and then there was five brands that got the best rating of excellent for satisfaction and those were lennox american standard train carrier and bryant so those five were the highest rated and i right here have an american standard and it's been going great this thing is 19.99 so it's 20 years old now and it's been running like a champ hopefully it'll run for another 10 years before i have to replace it well and that's what consumer reports had to say about which brand is best for ac or furnace and i just want to briefly come back to how i said that a handful of companies pretty much own all of the brands and i just want to break that down for you so you know who makes what or who owns which companies the biggest mother company out of them all is united technologies and those are the guys that own carrier bryant payne day and night and they also own icp which stands for international comfort products and those guys make arco air keep right hale tempstar and comfortmaker next up we have linux international and linux international makes lennox ducane armstrong concord allied air ease and airflow and then there's reem which also makes rude and those are the only two brands that they have the next one is daikon global those guys own dyken goodman amana and janet troll next we have johnson controls those guys own york luxaire and coleman next we have ingersoll rand they make american standard and train after that there's nordtech global hvac they make frigidaire and maytag and lastly there's wolf steel they make napoleon and continental so there you have it i think that kind of helps paint a picture so people understand that behind every single brand there is not an individual company for example united technologies which pretty much owns half of those brands that we just listed those guys um carrier that's pretty much their beta version whenever they launch their carrier they wait for a year and if there's any bugs in the carrier units that they launch for their air conditioner or their furnace they fix those bugs and a year later another one is launched under the name bryant and any bugs that were there they fixed them for the bryant but essentially a lot of times there is no bugs the insides of for example of carrier bryant and payne are all the same the labels change you know one will say bryant other one carrier other one payne but once you open them up the insides and the components are all the same and united technologies is the most notorious for that and frankfully they do own a lot of those brands comfortmaker tempstar they all look pretty similar to each other as well and the whole list that i went over by all means that is not an exhaustive list there's a ton of brands out there the ones that i went over are just the more common ones that you see out there so after hearing all of that of course there will still be people that'll ask me jay we understand all of that we get it but if your air conditioner or your furnace dies which brand will you get for yourself and yes i do work on a lot of units and i see which ones break more often so personally even though i would just go for whatever is the best deal if i had to choose i would probably choose either a train or a lennox those to me seem like they're the most reliable out of all the units that i see and i also want to mention when i get myself a new unit i personally will avoid anything high efficiency or variable speed just because if i ever have to replace those parts for example a high efficiency or a variable speed inducer motor for a furnace would cost about four times as much as a regular inducer motor on the furnace and also high efficiency furnaces they have two heat exchangers instead of one and that's pretty much the guts of the unit so the second heat exchanger it condenses it has water in it that flows through it and that just adds more chances that there might be some rust there might be some corrosion that happens because of that if something was not installed correctly or if it's not pitched correctly at install down the road there will be problems i know carrier had problems a chronic problem with their heat exchangers the secondary heat exchangers but that's a whole nother topic for air conditioners you know the more high efficient the air conditioner is if it's a two-stage compressor if there's control boards in there that's just that much more opportunities for something to go wrong and those parts are much more expensive than anything that a basic air conditioner would have so are those units a lot more efficient yes the answer is definitely yes they do save power they do save you on the energy bill they are a lot more efficient but if you have to do any repairs on them that's going to cost you more and there's a good chance that that unit will not last as long so in my opinion the energy savings are not worth the expenses incurred but of course all of that is just my personal opinion and everybody is entitled to their own opinion of what they think is best for them which brings me to ask this whole time i've been talking at you but whoever's watching me right now what do you think what is the best brand air conditioner out there what have you had good luck with what lasted a long time you barely ever had to repair it or anything like that or if you're an hvac technician what do you think what's your opinion you see these units every day furnaces and air conditioners which brand do you think is the most reliable which one is the best which one would you get for yourself so please do share your opinions if you're a homeowner or if you're a technician with everybody else in the comments below a lot of times the stuff in the comment section the content or the value of that is almost as good as everything in the video so the more comments the merrier thank you so much for watching this video don't forget to mash that like button on the way out and we'll see you next time and if you're still here and not in the comment section below then i'll leave you with this challenge right here try to find 10 differences in these two pictures within 30 seconds the time starts now [Music] me [Music] you

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Id: Cy46yTbkNhI

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 13 2019