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Heat Pump vs Gas Furnace |
Heat pumps can operate in two ways - firstly, by taking heat from the atmosphere outdoors (even when temperatures are quite low outside!), and pumping the exchanged heat through your house, or a geothermal type can take heat from the earth. A terrific feature of heat pumps is that they are reversible, removing heat from your house and put into the outdoor air, or into the earth. If you have a lake, or deep river, on your property, this represents the ideal heat sourcek for a heat pump installation. An air-source heat pump used for home heating works well when the temperature outdoors is not really low, as the heat pump will extracting heat from it, which gets more difficult as the external temperature reduces. An air-source heat pump installation is suitable for areas that don't experience super-low outside temperatures, but of course, there are other considerations - they are noisy, for example. The best kind of installation for areas with big differences between winter and summer temperatures is a geothermal heat pump ...... |
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When weighing up the differences and advantages of a heat pump vs gas furnace, you should consider the main priorities, the size of your house and no less important, the prohect cost. If you prefer solution over the longer term that will substantially lower your monthly fuel payments, then the geothermal heat pump is advisable. These systems use the ground as their source of heat, when in home heating or hot-water mode of operation. The temperature of the ground just four feet below ground is relatively stable in all seasons, which is more than water freezing point and less than the temperature of the air during the summer season. The geothermal heat pump is a terrific way of heating the home, as the heat exchange function is reversible, providing air conditioning inside your home. The biggest benefit is that you will immediately slash your running costs by around 50%. If money is tight, then the outlay required for a ground-source heat pump might be prohibitive. It's a fact that repayments on any loan taken out for the geothermal heat pump installation could be just about covered by the gas bill savings. Additionally, a large proportion of the installation cost is because the pipe-work have to be buried in the earth, either in a shallow grid formation, or directly down in a bore-hole, exactly like a conventional water well. If you have a reasonable area of land available, which depends on your project calculations, then a shallow grid-type pipe installation could be carried out quite easily by you, saving a lot of money. Good calculations are vital, as a system that is too small will not give you the or heating level you need for your home. The big plus of a geothermal heat pump vs gas furnace installation is the big reduction in energy costs, which incidentally also means that we use less of the Earth's fossilized furl resources.
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