Right-Size Heating and Cooling Equipment: The correct size improves comfort and reduces costs, maintenance, and energy use

Right-Size Heating and Cooling Equipment: The correct size improves comfort and reduces costs, maintenance, and energy use 186 KB /PDF

January 2002     

Right-Size Heating and Cooling Equipment: The correct size improves comfort and reduces costs, maintenance, and energy use explains the importance of determining the correct size for residential heating and cooling equipment in order to improve homeowner comfort, and reduce both initial and operating costs, and maintenance and energy use. The fact sheet provides the best guides for determining the right size of heating and cooling equipment and a table that demonstrates how right-sizing reduces costs for air-conditioners, heat pumps, furnaces and ductwork. It also includes sections on heat pumps and ducts.

Prepared for:
U.S. Department of Energy

4 pages