Honestly, I’ve done a gas furnace and had radiant heating from a boiler in college
Who says that this climate is too tough for a heat pump. Well most people I guess. The fact is that the majority of homes in our region use something other than a heat pump in the winter. That would be either a gas furnace or a boiler. There are homes with heat pumps but most of those come with a supplemental heat source like a wood stove. But not my house. It’s the dead of winter and I’m enjoying the cozy heating of radiant floor heating provided by my geothermal heat pump. It’s all I need for all of my quality heating and air needs. Winter or summer, the geo heat pump has it covered. However, this sort of heat pump isn’t like a traditional heat pump in one key respect. Most heat pumps have to extract heating energy from ambient air. And once the temperatures stay below freezing, those heat pump are neither efficient or all that warm. That’s where the geothermal heat pump is different. The geo heat pump extracts heating energy from the steady temperature of underground. And then, it transfers that heating energy to copper tubing under the floor and that’s the radiant floor heating. Honestly, I’ve done a gas furnace and had radiant heating from a boiler in college. The geothermal heat pump and radiant floor heating are the best in my opinion. The other really great thing about the geothermal heat pump is the fact that it’s so extremely efficient that my heating bills are a fraction of those using a gas furnace for heating.