Three Reasons to Use a Heat Pump

Air conditioners are great for quickly cooling down a house in the hot months of summer, but it can take quite a while for a traditional heating system to warm a house in the chilly winter months.

Luckily, heat pumps work very similarly to air conditioners only in the opposite manner. Instead of taking warm air from inside and replacing it with cold air, heat pumps take cold air from outside, extract heat energy from the cold air and pump it into a room to warm it up. There are several benefits to installing a heat pump in any home.

Heat Pump to Air Conditioner

While not working exactly like an air conditioner, heat pumps can be reversed easily in the summer months to take warm air out of a house and blow cool air into the home.

The only major difference is the lack of refrigerant to really chill the air that is entering the home. However, simply the ability to remove warm air from a room and replace it with cool will create a drastic difference in temperature that will allow anyone to get some much needed relief from the heat.

Environmentally Friendly

The fact that heat pumps don’t utilize refrigerants can actually be seen as a good thing. Air conditioners are somewhat controversial because they can be damaging to the environment.

Since air conditioners use refrigerants and move air from inside of a building to outside, they can release harmful chemicals and particles into the atmosphere. However, heat pumps perform similar cooling and heating actions without using refrigerants. In addition, heat pumps do not move air from inside to outside unless they’re being used as a cooling device.

A More Efficient System

One of the main issues with traditional heaters is that they try to warm the air in a room instead of pumping warm air into it. Cool air can easily ruin this effect through inefficient window panes, air entering from outside to inside through poorly sealed windows and doors and more. Because of this, people have to crank up their heaters to get a suitable effect.

In addition, most heaters are energy inefficient. They require a lot of energy for little pay off. On the other hand, heat pumps introduce three units of heat are introduced into a room for every single unit of energy used to power the system, making it incredible energy efficient.

Get your Albuquerque home ready by installing a heat pump. Just call Daniels Heating & Air Conditioning at (505) 375-4324 today for all your home temperature needs.