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I was seriously in the market for a heat pump system for the upper floor of my home. The current oil fired furnace system works but oil is expensive and the hea
by iamthepieman 3y ago
I was seriously in the market for a heat pump system for the upper floor of my home. The current oil fired furnace system works but oil is expensive and the heat from our pellet stove doesn't reach up to the second level very well.
Then I started working at a co-working space that has a heat pump system and the HVAC techs are in here working on it a couple times a year as we wear parkas and hats because it's 10C in the building. Or it's summer time and I'm trying not to sweat on my keyboard.
This led me to look more closely into reliability and longevity of these systems and the math just didn't add up, even with very optimistic values for MTBF and expected lifetime.
- Ynottingten 3y agoSo you have had the experience of one space using a heat pump but you don't have more information regarding it? What type it was? How well insolated was the space? Did the manager keep the temperature low on purpose? What does the summer time and sweating to do with the heat pump? Is your house insulated?
- iamthepieman 3y agoI did say I looked more closely at the details of such systems and the suitability of my house, insulation level, climate was part of of that. The singular experience was just the trigger to look into it and I determined that they aren't as great as the marketing makes them out to be. At least the models available in my area.