Attic Heat Pump

Alan and the team are awesome and steve gallacher was the plumber i had to help the install.

Attic heat pump.

Since you ll be using less material shorter ducts won t cost you as much as longer ones. A heat pump won t work as well or provide as much annual energy savings as it should unless the rest of your home is efficient too. It is the same model as the one recommended by the homeowner s hvac contractor. I live in chelsea up on holt hill and am a very pleased customer.

When your system itself is in the attic however you don t have to worry about this because your ducts won t have to run all across the attic. If you locate the part of the system that distributes the hot air to your home in the attic it will lose its effectiveness much faster than if the unit was properly located within the heated space of the home. A ductless mini split heat pump system allows for heat pump use in homes without ductwork. Your attic is the most susceptible room in the house for this.

Heat pumps can only operate to a certain point before they are no longer capable of providing the heating that the home needs. When private individuals bring a heat pump into their house this is an air water heat pump in 80 percent of cases. Homeowners benefit from the savings heat pumps offer as well as the system s inherent zoned comfort control. It is efficient and affordable.

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. The heat pump goes outside replacing your ac condenser if you have central air whereas the part that goes in the attic is referred to as the air handler. It is the perfect companion to the solar panels on the roof and low temperature heating in your home. Attic hvac systems save space.

This photograph provided by mitsubishi shows a ducted minisplit installed in an attic. So before you buy a heat pump consider. Most updated central air conditioned homes have a new air conditioner split system meaning the ac is broken up into parts. An outdoor unit which houses the fan condenser and compressor and an indoor unit which holds the evaporator and fan.

A ducted minisplit in the attic. There will be a lower cost for parts. You may be able to use your existing furnace as the air handler for a new heat pump. Well mainly it s a way to save space.

Heat pump in attic good idea or bad. Individual indoor units mounted on walls or ceilings connect to an outdoor condenser. The heat pump is working flawlessly since nov providing radiant floor heating and preheating our hot water to a aero therm hybrid hot water heater.