You likely have a heat pump if your outdoor unit runs in both heat and cool mode. An air conditioner should only be run in warm summer weather. Don't confuse this with an indoor furnace. This is...
Category: Heat Pumps
This is an important and confusing question to answer. Especially if you need to buy some R410A refrigerant. If you get the wrong answer you could be breaking the law. I've been in this refrigerant...
Line set protruding from crawl space of house before connecting to the heat pump. Should I evacuate the line or take a short cut?
An air conditioner freezing up is a very common problem, especially in the first few hot days of summer. There are many reasons for air conditioners to ice up. My customers that call that time of...
A line set is a set of copper pipes that link the indoor and outdoor units of an air conditioner or heat pump. When connected, these copper pipes are part of the sealed system under pressure in an...
You can test a heat pump in both the heat cycle in summer or the cool cycle in winter with some limitations. In the summer you should only run your heat pump in the heat cycle long enough to notice...