It never rains but pours. I just went over our furnace yesterday and it will need new firebricks. Impossible almost cost wise to use oil heating here now and no gas available. So it is a wood add on.

But the principal heating and cooling although the latter not used much this far north is going to be a new heat pump. I know the model I want but having a time finding it for a decent price.

I figure we will still use the add on wood furnace for the few really cold days of the year. Or if the power fails.

Your quote for both heating and cooling sounds decent if not cheap for here in Canada. But I do not live in your area.

Is the 135k btu requirement indicated for your house? Or do the newer gas furnaces tailor their burn rate rather than cycle to demand? I examined one quite awhile back and it was a pretty complex unit.

You of course will eventually make up some of the outgoing cost in more efficiency. Maybe even a lot of it over five years hopefully..