I live in northern BC. They have advertisements for heat pumps on our local radio. When I was looking to upgrade our home furnace and install an air conditioner, I investigated the heat pump as an option.
The research I did found that I would need a secondary unit (gas furnace) for when the temperature went below -20°C when the efficiency would drop. And after -25°C it would not be able to keep up to heating the house.
As much as I would have liked to use one unit to heat and cool my home, the tech wasn’t there to get my family through the winter. We have weeks of -30 during the day and it is consistently -20 over night for 5 months a year.
Fingers crossed when the time comes to replace my furnace and AC units something else has been figured out.
I live in northern BC. They have advertisements for heat pumps on our local radio. When I was looking to upgrade our home furnace and install an air conditioner, I investigated the heat pump as an option.
The research I did found that I would need a secondary unit (gas furnace) for when the temperature went below -20°C when the efficiency would drop. And after -25°C it would not be able to keep up to heating the house.
As much as I would have liked to use one unit to heat and cool my home, the tech wasn’t there to get my family through the winter. We have weeks of -30 during the day and it is consistently -20 over night for 5 months a year.
Fingers crossed when the time comes to replace my furnace and AC units something else has been figured out.