Furnace/Range question

[Cooperman]

Does anyone have preference for, or complaints about Suburban appliances vs. Atwood. I need to purchase a furnace and range for my ice house.

Thanks All.

[harvey lee]

The used Ice castle I purchased this past year has all Atwood appliances and the furnace.

I have been happy with the performance.

I will say one thing about the furnace, it works great but they do make a bit of noise when the fan runs. It does not bother me but it is not real quiet.

Not enough noise that if I needed to purchase another, it would not be a deal breaker.

[Cooperman]

Harvey Lee,

thanks for the reply, What size house do you have, and do you know the BTU rating of you furnace?

Thanks

Brosnt1

[harvey lee]

6.5ft by 16ft V front, so, approx 20ft long from front to rear of the actual house itself. 16,000 btu furnace and it will heat me right out of the place even in -20 temps. Heater does a very good job and I in no way would need a larger one. I do not believe any heater could do any better of a job, like I said though, it does make a little noise when the blower runs. Mine vents out of the bottom of the front cabinets so the warm air blows across the floor. I can adjust the vents to blow the air higher but it keeps the floor so nice and warm and keeps the holes open very nice so thats where I leave it.

Pretty good on propane usage also.

I would suggest that you also add a mud dauber screen on the outdie of the vent. The guy I purchased it from did not have one and the mud daubers crawled into the furnace and plugged it all up. The nests they make are almost like mud and as hard as cement.

Buddy and I took the furnace all apart, cleaned it all out and now it purr's like a kitten.

We did have to take it out and clean it 3 times before we got it all out of there. Once you go through that cleaning job, you will make sure you have a screen on the exhaust outlet.

For the time we spent on it,if a dealer would have spent the time we did, it would have been cheaper to just purchase a new furnace as they can make a real mess of things.

You can google mud daubers and see what they look like, a type of wasp.

[dirt292lv]

i have a castle also but with the Suburban 40k burned out 1 already but think it was a flaw from factory if i was to pick I'd go with the Suburban 30k will draw a little less power and draw a little less propane so on cold cold days less chance of regular freezing up I would bet malica has got pretty good deals on them also

[Cooperman]

Thanks All