Heat Pumps

Summary: A heat pump can provide energy efficient heating and cooling for your home in almost every state in the nation.

I started using heat pumps, or more specifically, air to air heat pumps over thee decades ago. I found them to be energy efficient, easier to install than separate heating and air conditioning systems, and extremely energy efficient.

Over the years, air to air heat pumps have gotten even more energy efficient, quieter, and most importantly, able to heat homes without calling for their gas or electric backup system when the outside temperature drops well below freezing.

Compressor technology has made great strides.

I would not build a new home or replace an old heating system with anything but a heat pump, unless I lived in an extremely frigid climate.

The only real complaint I ever received from a client was that the output air from the heat registers seemed cold, or colder, than normal.

This complaint was easily answered by explaining that indeed the air is cooler than output air from a gas furnace by several degrees temperature, but that this keeps the system from cycling too often, as a gas system does, resulting more even steady room temperatures. It also results in using less energy.

For an extremely thorough, unbiased treatise on air to air heat pumps, here is one from EERE (U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) called Air Source Heat Pumps.

Carl Heldmann