Replacing a home heating and cooling system is both a big deal and big investment, one that will affect energy bills and your level of home comfort for years. Read on to see why an air-source heat pump may be the best deal and choice for your Dayton area home.
Why Choose an Air-Source Heat Pump?
An air-source heat pump is the most common type of heat pump system. Heat pumps are efficient heating and cooling systems that use refrigeration principles to extract heat energy from outside air, rather than generate heat like a furnace, and release the heat energy inside the home (heating cycle).
Heat pumps use a reversing valve to engage the cooling cycle, which efficiently removes heat and moisture from the home during the hot and humid months. The cooling technology is basically the same that operates a high-efficiency central air conditioning system, and is just as efficient. Meanwhile, the heating mode in a well-maintained heat pump can provide efficiencies of 300 percent, as compared to a gas furnace, which can never exceed efficiency levels of 98 or 99 percent.
The following high-efficiency features drive performance and home comfort, and make an air-source heat pump a practical choice for home heating and cooling in the Dayton area:
- Variable-speed air handlers adjust air velocity to match the heating or cooling load at any given moment inside the home. The variable speed capability saves energy and reduces wear and tear on parts. I also provides more even temperatures and better filtration properties by cycling indoor air through the filter more times.
- Variable-capacity compressors deliver the precise amount of refrigerant required to meet the heating and cooling demand of the home. This substantially reduces electricity consumption and noise.
- WiFi thermostats monitor and control these high-efficiency components, work well with add-on equipment (e.g. zoning system and whole-house humidifier), and offer homeowners programming and remote access unavailable with standard programmable thermostats.
Lastly, your air-source heat pump may be installed with a gas furnace for high-performance, money-saving dual-fuel heating system no matter what Old Man Winter brings our way. When it becomes more efficient to run the furnace in extremely cold weather, the heat pump switches to back-up gas heating. When natural gas prices are especially low, you can even manually switch the fuel source for lower heating bills.
Contact Ace Hardware Home Services, Inc. for more information about the advantages of choosing a high-efficiency air-source heat pump for your Dayton area home.
Our goal is to help educate our customers in Dayton, Ohio about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems).
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