Serving Northern Michigan Since 2000

1st Annual Precision Furnace Makeover

2007 Recipient

Meet Alison and her children

Alison and her children received a safe, high-efficiency furnace, whole-house filtration, and year-round heating and cooling. The project replaced dangerous equipment that had been held together with duct tape.

Program

1st Annual Precision Furnace Makeover

Recipient

Alison and her children

She faced many difficulties in her life with great dignity and yet still found the strength to help others.

We chose Alison of Grand Traverse County, who was nominated by her sister who knew that Alison wouldn’t ever expect something like this to happen to her and certainly wouldn’t ask for it. She faced many difficulties in her life with great dignity and yet still found the strength to help others.

Alison’s equipment was dangerously old and broken down as well as being very inefficient. Alison’s old furnace was held together by duct tape and housed in an area with crumbling wallboard and insulation, and her new Trane Furnace is in a more sound structure.

The safety of her new system can now give her the peace of mind knowing that she and her children have a new highly efficient system (picture at right) that will no longer pose a threat of fire or carbon monoxide leaks and will reduce her heating bills as well. We also included a 10-year warranty so that she doesn’t have to pay for any repairs to the system if any are needed during that time period.

Her son has asthma, so we hope that the installation of the Clean-Effects will help to improve his breathing condition as well as a Heat Pump/Air Conditioner to keep the house a comfortable temperature year-round.

We feel honored to know a little more about this extraordinary family and to be able to help them in this way. We also want to thank Alison and Britten Banner for the very FANTASTIC banner they made for us as a thank you, as well as Alison’s sister for nominating this very special family to our inaugural Extreme Precision Makeover.

A big thank you goes out to TRANE and our TRANE representative for providing this top of the line equipment and making it possible to install extraordinary quality and dependability in Alison’s home. We feel confident installing Trane equipment because it is equipment that we can stand behind in offering great peace of mind.

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