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Originally Posted by solarguy
Just to flesh out the conversation, there are different types of heat pumps, ground source (water and earth) and air to air.
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Oh...sorry, I was referring to the mini split ductless jobbies that everybody and their dog around here is hanging on their living room walls. They've become more of a conversation piece than the weather and politics...lol. You're somehow seen as a village idiot if you tell people you're NOT installing one.
And just for the record, I was only really referring to them with regards to retrofits into existing homes. A bit different story when you can absorb the cost of things into the full cost when building a new home...by perhaps installing a large style heat pump on a cement pad outside, etc. However, for all intents and purposes, I was referring to all the people that are retrofitting the ductless jobbies into their homes in an effort to save on heating costs.
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Originally Posted by solarguy
And for the OP, what is your current heating and cooling method?
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We have a plain bungalow on a slab...almost 25 years old.
We heat with an air tight Pacific Energy wood stove in our living room.
Otherwise, the house is
technically heated by electric baseboard heaters...but we very rarely ever use them...unless we're going away for a few days, or late in the spring when we run out of wood...lol.
We don't do cooling...other than opening windows...lol.
It doesn't get all that hot here, and our house is somewhat cool in the summer. It's not that home AC isn't common here...it's actually quite common, but it's not something we feel we need.
I'm just curious what the real details are on these ductless heat pumps? As I said above...all I hear is praise...from sales people to the people that buy them. I know many people that have purchased them, but I have not heard a single word from any of them after the fact...other than how much they love their heat pump. I never seem to hear anything on actual savings or ROI. People tell me that they work great....but it's like talking to that guy that just bought a new diesel VW and he tells you he's getting 60mpg....but in reality, the only reason he knows (or thinks that) is because the sales rep told him so...not because he actually checked and tracked it (in which case he'd find out he's only getting 50mpg).
Am I making any sense?...lol.
Rem
