Heat pump for retirement home
After we bought our retirement home, we knew we would need to have the boiler updated, but the previous homeowner told us it did not work… With winter time fast approaching, my spouse as well as I got right on calling the boiler workers before we even moved in.
I believe we were both planning on getting just a fantastic old fashioned boiler, at first; But then the worker told us about this thing called a heat pump that saves a lot of currency on the electric bill! At first, I didn’t know what a heat pump does.
I thought that anything that directs heat into our home must be a heat pump, right? Well it turns out that I was technically right. The broad term for any boiler is a heat pump, however, what everyone refer to as a heat pump is a bit more particular; Essentially, it is a cooling system. I know, this just gets more confusing but bear with me; So it works like a cooling system, like an air conditioner, but instead of the freezing air going into the house, the freezing air goes outside as well as the sizzling air, from the laborings of the unit, go into the house. So it is an air conditioner but in reverse. I am sure the worker did a better job describing it than me. But a reverse air conditioner is the best way to understand what a heat pump is. Anyway, so we decided to get this heat pump installed instead of a more traditional boiler. It cost more, upfront, but it will save us a lot in the long run.