Heat pump is awesome home appliance
It didn’t take me very long to figure out that the heat pump was indeed a wonder.
- Not only does it handle all of the heating and cooling we need, it does it with such elegant versatility.
When I first left the gas furnace and the window air conditioners behind in our old place, I wasn’t so sure what I was getting into. I’ve lived my entire life, until recently, dealing with a winter that lasts five or six months. So when it came to HVAC, the whole focus was obviously on heating. We had a series of good gas furnaces in our home. I also got supplemental heating from a wood stove. This helped me keep the heating bill down and was worth the work it took to put up all that wood. When it came to cooling, we didn’t need much. I’d put in a window air conditioner upstairs in our bedroom. But we really didn’t use it all that often. So when we came down here, the heating and cooling priorities were completely reversed. Now, it’s all about the cooling as there really isn’t much of a heating demand. That doesn’t hurt my feelings because I was sick of the cold and all the work that went into affordable heating. But we do have a bit of a cold here and the heat pump is more than enough to make quick work of ridding the chill from our home. Yet, I still marvel at the fact that when we flip the thermostat setting from heating to cooling, the heat pump simply flips the process. Instead of bringing heat energy into the house, the heat pump is now moving the heat energy out of the house. It’s just such a simple and elegant design.