A brutal and prolonged arctic blast is bringing dangerous cold to a massive swath of the US, including new areas to the south and east, while snow, ice and strong winds slam parts of the South. Here’s the latest:
Ours is 13yo, so not ancient but not new either. We have geothermal heat pump, so at least more efficient than a air/air heat pump. But when it has to run non-stop it really cools down the ground loop water and gets less efficient.
That’s what I think I’d prefer a heat pump into a large pond. Water can store a lot of latent heat, and the convection will prevent it from getting too cold in one spot.
Then if it gets really cold we have a skating rink.
I also think the guys that designed/Installed ours were not the best. I think they undersized us a bit and am guessing the loop field is also smaller than ideal.
If I knew then what I knew now I probably would have questioned them a bit, but I just had too much other stuff I was keeping up with at the time.
We’re finishing our basement now and had a different HVAC company come out to look at adding vents/returns and he basically said our system really isn’t large enough to support the basement 100% which burns me up because we told them all along it was going to be finished and should be sized accordingly.
Ours is 13yo, so not ancient but not new either. We have geothermal heat pump, so at least more efficient than a air/air heat pump. But when it has to run non-stop it really cools down the ground loop water and gets less efficient.
That’s what I think I’d prefer a heat pump into a large pond. Water can store a lot of latent heat, and the convection will prevent it from getting too cold in one spot.
Then if it gets really cold we have a skating rink.
I also think the guys that designed/Installed ours were not the best. I think they undersized us a bit and am guessing the loop field is also smaller than ideal.
If I knew then what I knew now I probably would have questioned them a bit, but I just had too much other stuff I was keeping up with at the time.
We’re finishing our basement now and had a different HVAC company come out to look at adding vents/returns and he basically said our system really isn’t large enough to support the basement 100% which burns me up because we told them all along it was going to be finished and should be sized accordingly.