Does your heat pump heat your home in our climate?

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Anonymous wrote:Heat pumps are fine but if you are used to gas heat and then move to heat pump, it will not feel as warm.

Gas heat feels warmer if that makes sense. Heat pump is not as intense heat.

That's right. Heat pump heat is dry and drafty. It only feel warm if it goes to emergency/ electric heat, which uses more electricity. You need a whole house humidifyer, too. Other than that, it's fine.

Umm this isn't true - heat pumps actually put out more humid air - it is one of the subtle benefits.

No they don't, radiator heat does that heat pumps don't do that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heat pumps are fine but if you are used to gas heat and then move to heat pump, it will not feel as warm.

Gas heat feels warmer if that makes sense. Heat pump is not as intense heat.

That's right. Heat pump heat is dry and drafty. It only feel warm if it goes to emergency/ electric heat, which uses more electricity. You need a whole house humidifyer, too. Other than that, it's fine.

Umm this isn't true - heat pumps actually put out more humid air - it is one of the subtle benefits.

No they don't, radiator heat does that heat pumps don't do that.

Yes, neither heat pumps nor gas burning furnaces put out humid air. Maybe heat pumps are ever so slightly more humid since combustion burns water vapor. Both should be supplemented with a humidifier. Gas burning furnaces can use a variety of bypass-style furnaces. Heat pumps need a steam humidifier like the Aprilaire 800, which is sold under many different names.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heat pumps are fine but if you are used to gas heat and then move to heat pump, it will not feel as warm.

Gas heat feels warmer if that makes sense. Heat pump is not as intense heat.

That's right. Heat pump heat is dry and drafty. It only feel warm if it goes to emergency/ electric heat, which uses more electricity. You need a whole house humidifyer, too. Other than that, it's fine.

Umm this isn't true - heat pumps actually put out more humid air - it is one of the subtle benefits.

No they don't, radiator heat does that heat pumps don't do that.

Yes, neither heat pumps nor gas burning furnaces put out humid air. Maybe heat pumps are ever so slightly more humid since combustion burns water vapor. Both should be supplemented with a humidifier. Gas burning furnaces can use a variety of bypass-style furnaces. Heat pumps need a steam humidifier like the Aprilaire 800, which is sold under many different names.

"Combustion burns water vapor?" WTF are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heat pumps are fine but if you are used to gas heat and then move to heat pump, it will not feel as warm.

Gas heat feels warmer if that makes sense. Heat pump is not as intense heat.

That's right. Heat pump heat is dry and drafty. It only feel warm if it goes to emergency/ electric heat, which uses more electricity. You need a whole house humidifyer, too. Other than that, it's fine.

Umm this isn't true - heat pumps actually put out more humid air - it is one of the subtle benefits.

No they don't, radiator heat does that heat pumps don't do that.

Radiators don't put humidity into the air. If you're radiators are losing water you've got a problem. What radiators tend to do is draw less outside air, which is dry, into the house.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a heat pump that's on today. It's set to 69 and had been running all day although it was 50 degrees outside. I hear it running and think of all the dollars in electricity that are going out the door. I asked both my builder and the hvac installer why the system runs all day and they say when you get below 30 degrees heat pumps loose efficiency. I'll get a few hundred dollar electric bill. I lie to myself and say this is efficient just like my electric dryer that requires 2 cycles to dry a load. I can see through the app how many hours my system has been running. My house is brand new and well insulated.

In my old house I had a gas furnace and gas dryer. It easily got my house to temp and didn't run nearly as as long to maintain the temp and overall was cheaper in monthly cost. That was also a brand new house that was well insulated. Same thing with my clothes dryer. I used to have dry loads before the dryer finished the cycle. The joy on my new house is i have all day sun so in the summer i just hang clothes outside to dry. Its better and faster than the electric dryer.

I tell myself I'm being doing the right thing by choosing electric.

LOL - you are not doing the right thing running the heat in mid October?!?

No wonder our planet is on fire - pretty soon you won't need to run the heat at all because we won't have winter thanks to our being a bunch of snowflakes who can't put on a long sleeve shirt.

I'd love to keep the system off but I have kids who complain of being cold.at night if I let the house get cold. Our house got down to 64 degrees. It was too cold for the kids even with sweaters and slippers and warm socks. I turned it on and set it to 69 which is the temp I maintain all year.

Really - your kids complain when it is 64 degrees at night in the house?

Wow.

Wait until your kids see what we've done to the planet.

Seriously - get them some blankets and tell them if they are complaining about this they are in for a tough time in life.