If your heat pump and supplemental heat source can t keep your house warm 25 f you need to find out what the problem is.
Pump attic heat back into house.
It has a wood burning heater but not for real heat.
What do you think.
However an air water heat pump has one disadvantage and that determines the best place to install it.
Solarattic sells a system the pool convection system 2 that sucks hot air out of the attic of your house and pumps it into a heat exchanger to heat your pool.
I have a 2 story barn style house built in the late 60 s with not a lot of cellulose left in the attic.
Here s why it might be a good idea.
Heat pumps blow less hot hot air.
Our duct work for the first floor is in the crawlspace and for the second floor the ducting is between floors with baseboard registers throughout.
When it s running the air produced by a heat pump is definitely warmer than the ambient temperature but not as hot as the air produced by a gas furnace.
Our house has roughly the same sq footage downstairs as it does up maybe 1 100 upstairs and 1 300 downstairs.
It is efficient and affordable.
Depending on the size needed to heat and cool your home or business installation can cost 10 000 or more.
A heat pump is in its simplest explanation an ac condensor that has a reversing valve allowing the process to reverse and bring heat into the home rather than remove it.
Heat pump pricing for the geothermal heat pump itself range from 1 500 to 13 000 depending on the model not including installation.
In the summertime the temperature.
Find a good hvac contractor to help determine how well it s working.
The house is total electric and i have been installing through the wall heat pumps for comfort.
If you had a thermostat in the house and in the attic so that it would only run when you need heat and the attic is hot.
Heat pump in attic good idea or bad.
Some installers believe that placing these systems in a garage or attic space may make the system more efficient by decreasing the difference in temperature.
The rest of the time you heat your home with a heat pump.
What about using an attic fan in reverse to draw hot air out of the attic and into the house.
As a result you experience slower less severe air.
When private individuals bring a heat pump into their house this is an air water heat pump in 80 percent of cases.
What you probably have in your attic is the air handler the piece of your system that blows moves the air through the coil and ducts.
I went back into the attic a few days ago and unplugged it again.
It is the perfect companion to the solar panels on the roof and low temperature heating in your home.
Now i don t know what to do.
