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How Heat Pumps Can Improve Your Energy Efficiency
A heat pump is an efficient system that will both heat and cool your home.
How smart thermostats are making energy efficiency easy
Smart thermostats have the potential to revolutionalise home energy efficiency, but also bring concerns such as privacy and security. Tech writer Emma Bailey shares how the technology can be scaled...
Troubleshooting the Heat Pump: A Practical Guide
While you'll want to get professional maintenance on a yearly basis, it's also important to know some steps you can take in troubleshooting the heat pump.
What Is a Heat Pump Water Heater?
You already know that your heat pump can both heat and cool your home, but did you also know it can also heat your home’s water? Using the same principle of heat transference and heat pump technology, a heat pump water heater can effectively provide your home with the hot water it needs.
How to Add a Heat Pump to a Water Heater
This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey makes heating water more efficient by installing a heat pump
How Does a Heat Pump Work
How does a heat pump work? Heat pumps can extract heat energy from the air or ground and move it from one place to another. Sometimes acting as an air conditioner and sometimes as a heater, a heat pump can do it all. The experts at Carrier explain how a heat pump works. Click to learn more.
This Is How Your Heat Pump Works
It’s not a furnace, but it can warm your home. And it’s not an air conditioner, but it can cool your home. How’s that possible?
How Ductwork Impacts Energy Efficiency
Countless homeowners throughout the land use split central air conditioners, furnaces, and other HVAC systems dependent upon ductwork with which to distribute heated and cooled air throughout their homes. This can be a very effective means by which to do so. Some people, however, fail to recognize the enormous impact that their ductwork can have…
What to Choose: Furnace, Heat Pump, or Hybrid?
Know your heating options and the benefits of each heater type, furnace, heat pump or hybrid.
Tips to Keep Your Heat Pump Efficient
An efficient heat pump can hel you save on energy costs. Get tips on how to keep your heat pump at optimum performance from an air duct cleaning expert.
How NOT to Use Your Heat Pump Thermostat
Recently I've learned of two people running their heat pump in a way that costs them a lot of extra money. With heat pumps, there's an extra setting on the thermostat. In addition to heat, cool, and off, there's a setting for emergency heat. But what is that setting for? What does it do?
What Size Heat Pump Do I Need?
Getting the wrong size heat pump not only costs you more money, it can cause notable temperature differences inside your house, lead to poor humidity control, and put stress on the pump’s motor because it cycles on and off too frequently. There’s a lot to consider when you’re choosing a heat pump, but getting the …
Should You Choose a Heat Pump or an Air Conditioner?
Compare factors such as initial costs and installation requirements to help you decide whether a heat pump or an air conditioner is better for your home.
VERIFY: How To Keep Snow, Ice Off Heat Pump
What to Look for in a Heat Pump
You know how your refrigerator works: heat from inside the fridge is pushed outside. Heat pumps do the opposite: they work to take heat from the outside air and transfer it inside your building or facility. If in cooling mode, heat pumps will work just like your fridge, where the heat is moved from indoors…
How Does an Air Source Heat Pump Work?
Investing in a heat pump can be a wise choice, since it can heat and cool your home, as opposed to having separate systems for heating and cooling.
How Professional HVAC Maintenance Improves Energy Efficiency
Professional HVAC maintenance builds energy efficiency by taking strain off the unit, resulting in lower utility costs and greater comfort.
How do Heat Pump Water Heaters Work
A short explainer describing how a heat pump water heater transfers heat from the air to the water and saves energy in the process.
How Does a Heat Pump Heat?
Heat pumps are rising in popularity as people come to realize the extent of the benefits they provide. Their construction and method of operation allows them to provide a heat output equal to that of more traditional furnace and boiler systems, but with only a fraction of the cost. They’re both energy efficient and safe.…
