HVAC · Heating-capacity arithmetic

Compare furnace output and input ratings.

Use measured floor plates and your own heating baseline, climate, insulation, allowance, and efficiency assumptions.

← Conditioned footprint length →↕ Conditioned footprint widthConditioned floor plate × floor count
← Furnace input rating →↕ Delivered output capacityEfficiency separates input from output

1 Measure conditioned floor plates

2 Enter verified planning assumptions

Transparent calculation

Output = area × entered baseline × entered factors × allowance.

Input rating divides that output by the entered efficiency. This keeps delivered heat and fuel-input rating visibly separate.

Open the verified methodology for formula provenance, assumptions, a worked example, and limitations.