I know that costs vary regionally, and I also know that the cost of an HVAC package is variable dependent on the equipment specified.
By HVAC I mean a forced air ducted system that includes a heat pump as the primary means of supplying both heating and cooling, with backup for lower temperature heating supplied by electric resistance.
I bought my last whole-house HVAC subcontract ten years ago, and since then have been buying packages for heating only, using hydronic tubing in-floor and under-floor.
In what price range would you expect a ducted system of the type I stated above to fall, for a 2,950 sf house?
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Were it anyone but you I'd say $99,500.44.
But since it is you, I'm going to venture a guess of $12/SF. That would be for an A+ system with zoning dampers and first-class hardware, no ductwork under slabs, electrical work by others.
Lemme know if you get prices anywhere close to that.
In '96 I got a first class ducted job done for a 2900 sf home I was building for myself.
The central unit was a forced-air water furnace type, which was a heat exchanger box that used forward and reverse mode compressed refrigerant cycles to either get heat or add heat to circulating well-sourced water, to cool or heat the air. We had a well with more-than-adequate supply of 48 degree year round water, a private lake for the open-loop furnace discharge, and the whole thing was quite efficient.
Either way in the heat cycle, the input water experienced a 2 degree change. With the year round 48 degree input, we were discharging into the lake at 46 degrees and 50 degrees, winter and summer respectively.
The total package scope, taking water from just in from the well pump, to furnace unit, supply and installation of all discharge piping, riprap at the lakeside discharge, furnace, all ducting, controls, run in and checkout, and a blower door test at final, cost me $16,400. That amounts to $5.66 per square foot.
The area I am scoping out for relocation is western NC, south of Asheville, down near the SC border. I am told by a local HVAC outfit there that the typical system is a dual fuel two-unit arrangement, both units mounted outside the home on a 'crete pad, one being a gas furnace with electric resistance heating for light needs, the other being a conventional A/C unit. I am not sure how the heat excange is done for the ducted forced air arrangement going on inside the house.
"The area I am scoping out for relocation is western NC, south of Asheville, down near the SC border. I am told by a local HVAC outfit there that the typical system is a dual fuel two-unit arrangement, both units mounted outside the home on a 'crete pad, one being a gas furnace with electric resistance heating for light needs, the other being a conventional A/C unit. I am not sure how the heat excange is done for the ducted forced air arrangement going on inside the house."That does not make sense. Never heard of anything like that.One of the following is "standard".A/C with gas FWHHeat pump with backup resistive heaters air handler for backup.Heat pump with gas FWH units for backup. But that is installed like a A/C gas FWH. Not two separate units.