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I was renovating a home 9500 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountains with baseboard heat. The bills were 800-1200 a month in winters because it was an al
by hijinks 4y ago
I was renovating a home 9500 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountains with baseboard heat. The bills were 800-1200 a month in winters because it was an all electric home built before the gas was run in the community.
I reached out the Mitsubishi and shocked they got back to me so quick about how they wanted to prove their hyper heat systems could handle 9500 feet above sea level and getting down to -10F.
Long story short I got all the labor free and the equipment at 60% off and they said if I was unhappy they'd remove the system for free.
100% happy. Heat pumps are the greatest thing because the home doesn't go through this massive hot/cold cycle. They might stay running at 10% once they get to temps to keep it at the temps.
My bills went from 800-1200 in winter to 400ish. The bonus was I got AC during the summers when needed.
I told my wife when out HVAC goes out we are 100% switching to heat pumps
- dicriseg 4y agoI regret not doing one of those. We saved a couple thousand using a Fujitsu Halcyon that runs well down to about 20F. When it’s running it’s great, but we cut over to oil in late November.
- Scoundreller 4y agoDo you have it setup to run during the daytime when it’s warmer and cut over to oil at night?
- Scoundreller 4y ago> Heat pumps are the greatest thing because the home doesn't go through this massive hot/cold cycle. They might stay running at 10% once they get to temps to keep it at the temps. That means you have inverter drive. Also nice because they don’t have a capacitor that eventually fails and won’t dim your lights when it turns on. Also great at reducing demand charges if your electric utility bills that way. But heat pumps can run as an on or off only system. Depends on what you install.