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Heat pump water heater - is that ducting the waste heat outside somehow? I’ve thought about them but not sure I want something dumping extra heat into my basem
by alistairSH 2y ago
Heat pump water heater - is that ducting the waste heat outside somehow? I’ve thought about them but not sure I want something dumping extra heat into my basement when it’s 100* outside here in DC metro.
- pfdietz 2y agoNo, it extracts heat from the air in the basement. It cools the surroundings (assuming one is using the hot water, not allowing all the heat there to eventually diffuse out through the insulation, but a resistive water heat faces that same issue without having caused any cooling first.)
- alistairSH 2y agoOh, lol, I had it backwards. But in winter, when I’m using more hot water, the heater is cooling a house I’m desperately trying to keep warm? Not sure that’s any better. Is the amount of cooling noticeable? We’re in a small (by US standards), mid-70s home - it’s already next to impossible to keep the basement warm enough to use in January.