Heat Pumps: Efficient Heating & Cooling for Every Season

Their are ways to defrost a heat pump in winter.

Telling someone to buy a Goodman heat pump is like telling them to buy a Ford or a Chevrolet. I’m a huge fan of one of those, but only in vintage form. There’s a dealer out there in the open market for every brand of HVAC equipment. It’s simple economics; if no dealer exists, that…

How Much Is Too Much Ice On A Heat Pump? Too much ice on a heat pump can lead to extreme problems. As the ice accumulates on the outdoor coil, it reduces the heat pump’s ability to create heat. The difficult part for many of my customers has been for them to understand what too…

Early in my schooling as an HVAC technician, they drilled into my head that the three most common problems with heat pumps are airflow, airflow, and airflow. If you had the proper airflow in the beginning, when your heat pump was installed, then troubleshooting is much simpler. The primary factors that contribute to poor airflow…

A heat pump furnace is the indoor portion of a split system heat pump, as opposed to a package heat pump, which combines a complete system into one package. A heat pump furnace is the section of a heat pump that moves the air through the ductwork. It can be an electric, gas, or oil…

Your best backup heat source would depend on your location, your climate, the availability of fuel, and what type of fuel meets the price you want to pay. I’ve worked on, repaired, cut on, bled on, and installed just about all of them except for wood backup. The simplest form of backup heat for an…

If you’ve noticed your heat pump leaking water outside in winter, you are very observant. Let me explain why this water and maybe ice could be a good thing. Heat pumps leak water in winter because they have a defrost cycle governed by a control board. When outdoor temperatures drop toward freezing and below, the…