heat pump
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
What are the pros and cons of a central air w/ heat pump?
We live in north east PA and just bought a 30yr old ranch style home that has a central air system that will be in need of updating, maybe not this year, but next. Currently the house has baseboard electric heating and it was suggested we update a new central air system to a unit with a heat pump. It seems like people either love them or hate them and I just wanted to get some more opinions. I am looking for cost effectiveness as well as comfort. Personally, I like a moderate climate, neither too hot nor too cold so some say this would be perfect. My father thinks we have too extreme of a climate in the summer and winter for a heat pump to provide either adequate heating or cooling. We are looking for some more opinions/ideas, please.
Heat pump are fine but they do have some things to be concerned about one is there is a evaporator drip pan inside the home at the intake , it has a primary and a secondary drain , like when you run the A/C in your car and turn the motor off and you note clear water dripping from the under the car on the passenger side well that how cars git rid of the condensation OK, follow so far, now the primary drain in a heat pump goes to one of the sinks in the house usually the bathroom closest, its a rubber hose that will be in only one drain so it will look different than the rest of the sinks drains the law says the secondary drain must come out of the house and be seen in the event of the primary plugging up ,and if you see water coming out of this pipe usually just a white schedule 40 PVC, means the primary is plugged up and needs serviced , you must know where the secondary goes ask the seller or A/C person i have seen the secondary fill up with water & attics and sealing fall in cause they were not properly installed , other that that they are a great unit self contained and long life and very cold air and warm air , i have one where i live and keep the filter changed i do one a month depends how much dust is in air where you will live, also 3M sells a expensive filter that’s great hepa filter stops all contaminants from re entering your house , good question my has run 14 years trouble free so far
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