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Was it a company that also did gas boilers? If it's not a company that solely does heat pumps, I have heard a lot of contractors will give outrageous estimates
by dashundchen 4y ago
Was it a company that also did gas boilers?
If it's not a company that solely does heat pumps, I have heard a lot of contractors will give outrageous estimates because gas is simpler for them and they don't want to do it without the huge markup.
I had ground source heat pump installed with vertical wells in a city by a dedicated geo installer. The cost with tax credits came out not much more than a high end gas furnace and water heater. Going airsource would have been even more cost competitive, especially with the federal tax credits in place starting in 2023.
- sokoloff 4y agoThey did. To (only partially) guard against that, I made it clear that I wouldn’t be hiring them to hang a gas boiler. (That still allows them to prefer someone else’s gas boiler job over my air-source job, but at least prevents me bidding against myself.) And there definitely would be more labor, more piping, and more electrical work to switch to an ASHP; that’s part of the market forces problem that is hard to overcome with anything other than large price increases for gas or larger direct subsidies for switching.