Heat Pump Short Cycling: The Five Free Checks to Make First
Four checks to document repeated heat-pump starts and stops, distinguish defrost, and prepare a useful symptom log for your technician.
Heat Pumps
Whole-home heat pumps: how they behave in cold weather, what they cost to install and run, how to size one, and how they compare against the furnace or boiler they would replace. Specifications come from manufacturer manuals, and every cost figure carries a label saying whether it was measured, quoted or sourced.
Heat Pump Blowing Cool Air: When That Is Normal and When It Is Not
Heat pump supply air lands near your skin temperature, so it feels cool while it heats the house. How to tell that apart from a real fault.
Heat Pump Auxiliary Heat: Why It Runs So Much, and When to Worry
Auxiliary heat running is not automatically a fault. There are three causes, two of them free to fix, and the order you check them in decides whether you pay for a diagnostic.