Heat Pump Recommendations

Our heat-pump is showing it's age and quit yesterday. The serviceman who got it up and running said I'll probably have a terminal event sometime in the next year. Recommendations of good replacements? Thanks.

Sell the house,

olddaze???

If you wanna PM me I'll give you the name of a guy who is as good as there is locally. He worked for a big heating and air company for a long time and then went into business for himself.
Three years ago I had window units and wall heaters. No central ductwork. He installed a heat pump and all the ducting from scratch in a 3-bedroom house and only charged $4500 for everything. And he knows his shit as good as anybody.
So he would replace your unit and probably give you as good a price as anybody.

But if you're looking for info on brands this might help. It's got reviews on just about every brand. But the thing you'll notice is that a lot of heat pump customers are generally not very happy campers with most of the brands.

http://www.furnacecompare.com/heat-pumps/reviews/

[edit] I was just looking over that long list and so far the one with the best reviews I've seen is GE.
Sadly the one I got, Heil, aint all that great. lol

Gunz wrote:olddaze???

That's what I thought too, Gunz. But, I have met both of them and they ain't the same person...

I have a York...small industrial heat pump. It was installed 2/11 and works great. The York replaced my old heat pump that was 25 years old....this one is more efficient and my electric bill is much lower.

Slicef18 wrote:Our heat-pump is showing it's age and quit yesterday. The serviceman who got it up and running said I'll probably have a terminal event sometime in the next year. Recommendations of good replacements? Thanks.

Shop around. NG prices are going to be cheap for the next 10-20 years. Coal prices are going up. Gulf Power uses coal.....contact ESP and check out their plans and rebates. Good Luck......

Slicef18 wrote:Our heat-pump is showing it's age and quit yesterday. The serviceman who got it up and running said I'll probably have a terminal event sometime in the next year. Recommendations of good replacements? Thanks.

Consumer Reports

I don't know if this is still the case. But back when I got mine you could get a significant rebate from Gulf Power if you chose the highest energy efficiency heat pump at the time. That rebate just about paid for the difference between the less expensive lower efficiency ones vs the higher purchase price of the higher efficiency ones making that a no brainer. I know only because I was ignorant and chose the lower efficiency one and then found it out after the fact when it was too late to make the right choice.