I may be in the minority, but I decided to use a furnace for our heating.
I found that a furnace is much easier and cheaper to maintain than a full on central heating and A/C unit.
I have a rest alone central A/C to take care of our cooling, and the furnace takes care of the heating. I also like the way the furnace heat feels versus central heating. The fact that I have a gas furnace I think makes a difference. Because I think an electric furnace would be the same as central heating in terms of the way the heating feels! Central heating or any kind of electric heating for that matter has a dry guess as to where the gas furnace is more neutral. That is how I guess in our experience anyhow, then getting a brand new gas furnace was entirely not as easy as I thought it was going to be though. Because all the people these days go for central heating and A/Cs, a lot of heat and A/C dealerships do not stock any kind of furnaces other than commercial or industrial kinds for large buildings. So I entirely had to have our gas furnace ordered from the heating and A/C dealership that I got it from. The installation was pretty detailed too. That I won’t deny. But I just like a gas furnace over a central heating and A/C any day of the week! There is no question in the whole wide world about that.