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Re: OK, so now I'm buying a new coil unit for my home's AC. Would you like a new furnace as well, sir? - deckeda - 09-01-2008
No, just some broad reading that suggested if temps rarely go much lower than about 40 consider a heat pump. Temps regularly dip to mid - 30s here in deepest winter, 32 and lower is rarer. Most people I know have a furnace, for what that's worth.
Re: OK, so now I'm buying a new coil unit for my home's AC. Would you like a new furnace as well, sir? - Grateful11 - 09-02-2008
[quote deckeda]No, just some broad reading that suggested if temps rarely go much lower
than about 40 consider a heat pump. Temps regularly dip to mid - 30s here in deepest
winter, 32 and lower is rarer. Most people I know have a furnace, for what that's worth.
Those numbers are just not true anymore. As I said in another thread, "I get 83 degree heat
out of the registers when it's 25 outside". Today's Heat Pumps aren't your father's Heat
Pumps. These days it rarely gets into the teens here but Heat Pumps are now the norm.
Re: OK, so now I'm buying a new coil unit for my home's AC. Would you like a new furnace as well, sir? - Bill in NC - 09-02-2008
Use a heat pump for primary heat with the gas furnace as backup.