Heat pumps can’t take the cold? Nordics debunk the myth::By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.
Heat pumps can’t take the cold? Nordics debunk the myth::By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.
$2600 is utter bullshit. I had several quotes for a 1000sf house, not a single one was under 16000 installed, after rebates. My payback period was going to be almost 20 years even against a medium efficiency gas furnace.
And this is why the comments here miss the point- sure, heat pumps nowadays can work that low but in a lot of places the payoff period is well outside what anyone is looking at.
Ours was around $15k for a top of the line multi-stage setup, but also included the furnace. Furnace was getting towards the end of its expected life, so decided to bundle it all together.
I was hoping we could get rid of the furnace entirely and put in underfloor resistive heating. We have solar, so this might have been a good setup. That combination doesn’t seem to be as well developed in thermostats, and HVAC techs around here aren’t as familiar with it. We’d be experimenting, and the cost of it going wrong was very high bills, freezing, or both.