Whirlpool Central heating and air-conditioning
Whirlpool did indeed build some great units from their Hiel Quaker Tempstar division out of Tennessee, my first central air conditioner lasted 42 years and was extremely economical and quiet, it was another great example of when you buy a high efficiency product it usually lasts longer, which is also true of many major appliances today.
Unfortunately, their gas central air-conditioning units were a whole Nother matter. I don’t think many of them even made it 10 years, they did make some improvements in them and started marketing them under the serval name to get the blame off whirlpool a little bit. They were very sheepish about saying they still had anything to even do with them. I don’t think whirlpool produced the gas chillers under their name for more than three or four years.
Here in the DC area. The gas company gave you free service for gas appliances, charging just for parts and even though more than 70% of homes here have gas heating and not 5% of the homes ever had gas central air-conditioning. Once the summer weather hit. The service guys were working 24 hours a day practically they couldn’t keep up trying to keep the gas air conditioners working, a friend and customer was a service man for the gas company. He would tell me some incredible stories.
John L