Who says that these weather conditions are too taxing for a heat pump… Well everyone I know to be honest.
The fact is that the majority of households in our region use something other than a heat pump in the nippy season.
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 such as a wood stove. Not my house, it’s the dead of winter plus I’m enjoying the cozy radiant floor heating supplied by my geothermal heat pump. It’s all I need for all of my quality heating plus air needs. Winter or summer, the geo heat pump has it covered, however, this sort of heat pump isn’t quite 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 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 steady temperature of underground. And then, it transfers that heating energy to copper tubing under the floor plus that’s the radiant floor heating. Honestly, I’ve done a gas furnace plus had radiant heating from a boiler in college. The geothermal heat pump plus radiant floor heating are the most wonderful in my opinion. The other honestly fantastic thing about the geothermal heat pump is the fact that it’s so harshly efficient that my heating bills are a tiny fraction of those using a gas furnace for heating.