Who actually says that this temperature is too taxing for a heat pump.
Well, most people I guess! The fact is that a good majority of homes in our region use something other than a heat pump in the frigid weather.
That would be either a gas furnace or a boiler. There are residences with heat pumps but most of those come with a supplemental heat source very similar to a wood stove. Of course, not my residence. It’s the dead of winter time plus I’m enjoying the cozy radiant floor heating that comes from my geothermal heat pump. It’s all I need for all of my quality heating plus air needs. Winter time or summer, the geo heat pump has it covered altogether. However, this sort of heat pump isn’t really like a traditional heat pump in one key respect, most heat pumps have to extract heating energy from ambient air. When the rapidly increasing temperatures easily remain below frigid levels, those heat pumps are neither efficient nor all that warm. That’s where the geothermal heat pump is entirely different. The geo heat pump extracts heating energy from the stable temperature of underground. And then, it transfers that heating energy to copper tubing under the floor plus that’s the radiant floor heating that I am getting. Honestly, I’ve done a gas furnace plus had radiant heating from a boiler way back in college. The geothermal heat pump plus radiant floor heating are the best in my opinion. The other entirely wonderful thing about the geothermal heat pump is the fact that it’s so severely efficient that my heating bills are not nearly as costly as those using a gas furnace for heating.