Authors

Two people keep this site running, and their jobs do not overlap on purpose. One prices out furnace replacements and writes what ends up on the page. The other built the site, sets what it is and is not allowed to claim, and never puts a byline on anything.

Jessica Martinez

Furnace & HVAC Cost Analyst. Jessica writes the calculator copy, the guide pages, and the FAQ answers you find across this site. Her focus is narrow: what a gas, electric, or oil furnace actually costs installed, how AFUE efficiency ratings change the math, and where labor quotes tend to run high or low by region. She is not an HVAC technician and does not hold a contractor license; nothing she publishes is a substitute for a licensed installer looking at your actual furnace and ductwork. Her figures come from contractor pricing surveys, manufacturer list pricing, and regional labor-rate data, cross-checked before publication. She writes similar cost guides for other home-system sites in the Encore Editorial network, so if the voice sounds familiar from a water heater or AC site, that is why.

Chris Terry

Founder and Site Owner. Chris built FurnaceReplacementCost.net and the Encore Editorial network it belongs to, and wrote the ground rules laid out on the editorial standards page. He does not research or write the pricing content here; that work is Jessica's alone. His involvement is structural: making sure the calculator's assumptions hold up, deciding how a flagged pricing error gets fixed, and keeping every byline on this site attached to the person who actually wrote the page.

One byline, one reason

Every guide currently live on this site carries Jessica's byline because she wrote every one of them. There is no shared staff account and no anonymous "editorial team" standing in for a person. If a second writer joins this site, they will get their own entry here next to the pages they actually researched. Sourcing and correction details live on the editorial standards page.