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Heat pump sales have never been hotter — and they're putting demand for AC on ice
Sales are growing so quickly that some installers wonder whether heat pumps could even wipe out the demand for new air conditioners in a few years and put a significant dent in the number of natural gas furnaces.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bakx-heat-pump-hvac-sales-heat-wave-cool-1.6918684
I have some friends who have had all kinds of trouble with their heat pump, but it might have been mostly due to how it was originally installed
I’ve been looking into them and two common issues I’ve heard are incorrect installation of the unit and not understanding that its not a full replacement for AC and a furnace.
How is it not full replacement for an AC? It is an AC.
No. Its a heat pump. It has a limit on how much cool and how much heat it can provide. You need an ac for 30+ weather and a furnace for -10 weather.
I’ve done some research because I want to install one and thats what I found. A common mistake is expecting it to work in all conditions.
@Luci @wildbus8979 this may have been true a decade ago but now the cold-climate versions can operate at 100% down to -20C. Ours was operational at -29C and running at about 80% output (even though according to the specs thermal shutoff is -28)