Furnace Help

[cardken]

If you have a Heat Pump, you have a low charge, you'll notice your indoor air will be luke warm at best, but switch thermostat over to Emergency Heat. This will activate heating elements inside of your furnice, will provide temporary heat until you can get service out to charge unit. Also check your Air Filter, if clogged will cause lines to outside unit from Air Handler(Furnice) to become incased in ice.Re member a heat pump only heats efficently up to 34 degrees. After that you should switch over to Emergency Heat, it always amazed me that they install those unitd in the mid west.

[KC Kings]

Originally Posted by cardken

If you have a Heat Pump, you have a low charge, you'll notice your indoor air will be luke warm at best, but switch thermostat over to Emergency Heat. This will activate heating elements inside of your furnice, will provide temporary heat until you can get service out to charge unit. Also check your Air Filter, if clogged will cause lines to outside unit from Air Handler(Furnice) to become incased in ice.Re member a heat pump only heats efficently up to 34 degrees. After that you should switch over to Emergency Heat, it always amazed me that they install those unitd in the mid west.

Heats efficiently up to 34 degrees, or 34 degrees over the outside temperature?

We have a 2,400 square foot house, a heat pump, and very rarely does the emergency kick in. If it is in the teens outside or if it is in the 30s and our garage door has been opened a while it will kick in, but other than that our house stays at 68 with no problem.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by KC Kings

Heats efficiently up to 34 degrees, or 34 degrees over the outside temperature?

We have a 2,400 square foot house, a heat pump, and very rarely does the emergency kick in. If it is in the teens outside or if it is in the 30s and our garage door has been opened a while it will kick in, but other than that our house stays at 68 with no problem.

It depends on your brand of heat pump and how old it is. Some newer heat pumps can keep your house warm when the outside temperature is around 20 degrees. I toyed with the idea of a heat pump last year but decided to go with a 94%+ efficient gas furnace. If you're on KCPL and have a heat pump you'll also get a discount on the cost of electricity from mid-September until sometime in the spring.

[cardken]

Originally Posted by KC Kings

Heats efficiently up to 34 degrees, or 34 degrees over the outside temperature?

We have a 2,400 square foot house, a heat pump, and very rarely does the emergency kick in. If it is in the teens outside or if it is in the 30s and our garage door has been opened a while it will kick in, but other than that our house stays at 68 with no problem.

34 degrees outside. like the other poster stated, depends on the age of your model. You must have fantastic insulation.